May 05, 2005

"It's eating up peanuts at a rate of knots..."

Charmed to find in the current Guardian that UK election coverage still spends lots of time discussing "the swing." Wot is it anyhow -- just the change in point spread from one election to the next?

Elucidations on current UK political behaviors much welcome here anyhow.

("...It's just an arbitrary set of rules like chess or tennis or -- what's that strange thing you British play?"
"Er, cricket? Self-loathing?"
"Parliamentary democracy...")
Posted by Martha Bridegam at May 5, 2005 05:06 PM
Comments

All hail the Swingometer.

Posted by: Alan Allport at May 5, 2005 05:22 PM