TONY WINS!….BARELY….Excellent. The polls are barely closed in Britain but we already know the winner thanks to the miracle of exit polling: “Tony Blair is on course to win an historic third term for Labour but…Mr Blair’s majority will be reduced from 160 to 66.”

If that holds up, it’s a pretty crappy result for Labor.

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