US Elections

A sense of deja vu gripped the awestruck onlookers across the world as they awaited the results with bated breath.

When the going gets tough, the tough got going. That is how one can sum up the Bush Mark II's edge of the seat win over Kerry in November presidential polls. [Kerry overkill by media might have seen the incumbent Prez through.] A sense of deja vu gripped the awestruck onlookers across the world as they awaited the results with bated breath - the 2000 presidential race was extremely close, though there have been others that were also too close to call immediately after the election. Indeed, the results of the November 7 election in 1876 were not known until March 2, 1877, just three days before the inauguration. John F Kennedy's defeat of Richard M Nixon in 1960 wasn't official until noon the following day.

[While in 2000, US voters appeared to have justified pop's Iraq exploits in 1991, giving green signal to Junior Bush, 2004 polls' outcome saw a clear-cut demarcation of the modern world - the US and the rest - vis-a-vis how the universe perceives him. He may have been the most unpopular US President in outside world, he turned out to be a vastly popular Prez in his own country. His identification with his electorate was complete.]

- Sajjan Singh Thakur