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Christmas notes

10 December 2016

9:00 AM

10 December 2016

9:00 AM

Festive baubles

The two seasons I love most in life are elections and Christmas. As we near the year’s end, can you imagine my surfeit of happiness to have had not only our own election (and a double dissolution at that) but a US presidential contest to boot in 2016? And of course, Brexit, who could forget Brexit? While Hillary and Malcolm won’t perhaps share my joy, this psephologist is quite literally humming her Messiah all the way to Christmas after an epic year of campaign riches.

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