They blithely dismiss the disenfranchise of thousands of Floridians as being the usual sort of mistake made at elections.
It's true that believing in promises made at an election is rather like believing in the tooth fairy.
It has been a good day for democracy, because the NIC row is at last illuminating the really serious choices that have to be made at this election.
"I think the reason why the prime minister is in such a panic over the NHS is because he knows that this is a total breach of the promises he made at the election," he said.
After pledges made at the previous election, every Mongolian, rich or poor, gets 21,000 togrogs ($16) on the 15th of every month.
He claimed: "People remember the promises David Cameron made at the last election: the airbrushed posters and the three letters he said he cared about most: NHS.
The party is determined not to repeat the mistake it made at the last election of seeming to concentrate solely on its hostility to the euro.In one rather smart move, Mr Duncan Smith managed both to distance himself from knee-jerk europhobia and to show that he was thinking hard about public services.
In Florida, perhaps the most glaring Republican gerrymander of the previous cycle, a new law on redistricting is likely to crimp the state legislators' most partisan impulses.All told, both Democrats and Republicans agree, redistricting for Congress is unlikely to alter the balance much, with Republicans focusing for the most part on consolidating the gains they made at the last election.
"There will be such a significant reduction in the number of seats that we believe parties need to think about this carefully, particularly given the progress that was made at the last election in increasing the number of women in parliament," she warned.
They bravely sent me their prediction, made at 1400 on election day, which combined Twitter data with opinion polls to reach a conclusion.
