But that is not what the hundreds of volunteers from the World Hindu Council who poured into the state for the election believe.
Jon Cruddas, the MP for Dagenham, a likely leadership contender if Labour loses the election, believes that those who have written Labour off may yet look stupid.
Craig Mackinlay, a former Ukip leader standing for the Tories against Farage at the election, believes the party broke through at this point because it struck a chord on immigration at the right time in the political cycle – one of controversy about the accession of Romania and Bulgaria and outbreaks of right-wing populism across Europe.
They also point out that he argued against the party's fees position ahead of the election, believing it to be unrealistic, and that was why it did not become one of the four key promises on the front of the Lib Dem manifesto.
But analysts fear that if Kenyans head into the election believing it is already corrupt, it could reignite the violence that followed the disputed 2007 election which left more than 1,200 dead.
Even so, they took part in the elections, believing that the alternative would have been to find themselves marginalised".They used fraud and all means of violence to get the result they wanted," said Ahmed Djeddai, who leads the opposition Socialist Forces Front, FFS.
The next day, The Times described Mr. Guiteau as "a half-crazed, pettifogging lawyer," who, because he had supported Mr. Garfield in the 1880 election, believed he was owed a government job.
Some 79% of the sample who intend to vote Labour in the next election believe the government should abandon the bedroom tax, while five in six (83%) potential Labour voters say the policy shows the government is out of touch.
But before the campaigning started, Saturday marked a rare opportunity for Pakistan to bask in the glow of its hard-earned democratic achievement, one that few people back in February 2008, when the country held an election, believed likely.
The survey found that 59 per cent of all those who voted Liberal Democrat at the last election believe the party has got worse in the three years since, with only 9 per cent saying it has got better.
