03/03/2008 2:25:44 am
Election - in the True Sense. I just arrived in Washington DC. Once more I resisted the temptation to joke with the US Officials (probably wisely). I did not fill in "yes" to the obviously outdated question - in the mandatory "I-94W" form - concerning collaboration with the Nazi regime in Germany 1933-45...

The Presidential candidates may be in Texas and Ohio, but the election is all over town here too. It has to be repeated; if the election will stand between McCain and Obama, it is a sensation. Nobody thought that possible just a few months ago. This is how elections should be. The contrast with the simultaneous appointment of a new President in Russia is of course total.

In the week-end FT, Christopher Caldwell had the best analysis so far about the contest between Obama and Clinton - read it here.