'Bradley Effect' Will Tell a Lot About America's Voters ; Us Election As the Polls Open On One of the Most Eagerly-Awaited Us Presidential Elections Ever, Welsh Academic and Us Political Expert Professor Jon Roper Gives His Verdict On the Race for the White House

Western Mail › November 04, 2008

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ON ELECTION night, all they can do is hope. For the exhausted Democrat and Republican campaign teams, the effort began a year ago in the snows of Iowa and New Hampshire.

It gathered momentum as the nomination battle moved south and west. After their party's conventions, it culminated in the final dramas of the election itself. In the hours before dawn tomorrow, the only question remaining will be that asked by Sylvester Stallone in one of his early Rambo films: "Do we get to win this time?"

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'Bradley Effect' Will Tell a Lot About America's Voters ; Us Election As the Polls Open On One of the Most Eagerly-Awaited Us Presidential Elections Ever, Welsh Academic and Us Political Expert Professor Jon Roper Gives His Verdict On the Race for the White House

A Democrat victory seems likely. The incumbent President, George W Bush, is now one of the most unpopular in history. He will leave office with wars in Afghanistan and...

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