Oh the blissful brevity of it all. Yes, even if Gordon Brown has lost, the removal van may not be turning up this afternoon at the back door of Downing Street to cart off his personal effects. But was it really only four weeks ago that Gordon Brown went to see the Queen – and only three since the first leaders' debate which turned the campaign on its head? Here in the land of the perpetual campaign, four weeks doesn't even cover the warm-up for the Iowa caucuses.
But neither brevity, nor the startling ascent of the Liberal Democrats , explains why the Americans have been so interested in our election of 2010 – to some degree repaying the compliment of 2008, when the US held an election that transfixed Britain (and most of the rest of the world).
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