New England Patriots

The party of global capital and never-ending war has been deprived of its last Congressional seat in New England, on which (back when it was not the party of global capital and never-ending war, because America mercifully did not have one) it used to be able to rely almost as much as the Tories used to be able to rely on Scotland, from which, as from Wales, they were removed in 1997.

(The idea that Scotland and Wales had in any case been Labour fiefdoms since the year dot is just drivel, and, like the same depiction of the North, an excuse on the part of the London media to avoid having to discuss anything of any concern in Scotland, Wales or the North, just as those media also pretend that Old Labour voters and concerns do not exist in the South.)

The GOP is going to be out for a very long time.

Which is why Obama does not deserve, because no one deserves, a clear run in the 2012 primaries.