Here's Hoping ; Would You Queue for Four Hours to Vote for a Politician? The Sight of Those Long Lines Patiently Waiting to Vote for Obama Were a Bit Shaming, for We Rarely Get Enthused to the Point Where We'd Wait Hours in the Cold to Put a Cross On a Bit of Paper.

Western Daily Press › November 11, 2008

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Would you queue for four hours to vote for a politician? The sight of those long lines patiently waiting to vote for Obama were a bit shaming, for we rarely get enthused to the point where we'd wait hours in the cold to put a cross on a bit of paper.

The only time I might have done it would have been an election which could have ousted Thatcher, and that situation never arose. And we don't have politicians as charismatic as Obama - imagine queuing in rain and snow to vote in John Major. The nearest we came to an Obama moment was when Tony Blair got in, and look what a busted flush that turned out to be.

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Here's Hoping ; Would You Queue for Four Hours to Vote for a Politician? The Sight of Those Long Lines Patiently Waiting to Vote for Obama Were a Bit Shaming, for We Rarely Get Enthused to the Point Where We'd Wait Hours in the Cold to Put a Cross On a Bit of Paper.

The unpalatable truth is th...

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