On Fri, 21 May 2010 15:58:27 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>>> What? You don't remember the whole US Election "hanging chad" debacle
>>>> of 2000? Those were punch cards... :)
>>>
>>> ...there was a US Election in 2000?
>> 
>> There's one every 4 years ... the last one was in 2008.
> 
> My point being that the rest of the world probably doesn't take as much
> notice as the US itself does. ;-)

Actually, a fair amount of the world does take notice, because the US is 
seen by many to be the one remaining "superpower" and the presidential 
election has a pretty significant effect on the rest of the world.

But Mike is wrong about there being an election every 4 years; there's an 
election every 2 years, just the "big" ones are every 4 years.

Jim

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