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There’s still two days to go before America votes and national polls show voters remain largely undecided with nothing more than a sheet of ballot paper between Democrat Obama and Republican rival Mitt Romney.

But Paddy Power believes it’s a done deal and Obama is a nailed-on certainty to win a second term.

This seems pretty typical of Europe right now. If your news about the US comes mainly from the BBC and your polls from Reuters/Ipsos, you'd think it was a done deal too.

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“If your news about the US comes mainly from the BBC and your polls from Reuters/Ipsos, you’d think it was a done deal too.”

Same thing in Kanada, where anti-Americanismn runs rampant. Most idiot canadians get their news from the most anti-US network on earth called the CBC, then you have problems. When I head there every Christmas to visit my brother, they really are in a bubble world.