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Fellow boarders, I will admit already that I know far too little about the American Presidency race to hold a strong opinion. However, I've read a little bit about it and it's had me quite worried. I'm worried about McCain and the chance of him being the next president. From what I've read, he's for a lot of things that I am against, and against a lot of things I am for. Obama, on the ...

My opinion on the matter is that it would probably take at least two terms to turn the country around, so even if Obama does win, he/another Democrat won't last long enough to make a massive difference anyway. The two party system is different in America to how it is here, here we have the left (Labour) and the right (Conservatives), the Democrats hold a similar position to our Conservatives ...

Okay Esquilax before you kick the shit out of me for saying that, I'll just point out, I do rather like Obama, he just wouldn't be my first choice, probably be around my third choice.

I prefer McCain.

bobby o ftw

or no wait. I change my mind. WRITE IN CANDIDATE:

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Dude, "New" Labour is pretty much a conservative party over there, isn't it? Surprised they didn't replace Blair with Maggie... _________________ HEAD OF FEMUR, Great Plains | MP3 | order

True, our current government is known as New Labour, but what most people (even in this country) don't realise is that most Labour members sitting in Parliament are actually socialist Old Labour, I'll be voting Labour in the next election for two reasons, 1. So the Conservatives don't get in, and 2. In hope that one day Labour will be the great party it used to be again. So they took us to war, ...

Basically, Brown and the cabinet are very much Thatcherites, but most Labour members are just loyalists who want their party back.