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America in good company on elections

President-elect Donald Trump

It’s dishonest, sitting thousands of miles on this God-forsaken side of the Atlantic, to purport to be an expert on American elections and their outcomes. That task is best left to that country’s own scholars, pollsters and political pundits.

They’re some of the best in the trade. And they failed, spectacularly. The crystal ball through which they see and predict such things has been shattered. A torpedo ripped right through the heart of their motherland.

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