2:38 Pacific Daylight Time; 10:38 in London.
The polls closed at 10, the exit polls of the SKY/ITV/BBC show a hung parliament, the Tories with 305 seats (19 below a majority), Labour with 255, Liberal Democrats with a surprisingly weak 61, the rest to minor parties. All of that will be adjusted as actual votes are counted. The Conservative Party strategists are saying that the final numbers will be better than the exit polls suggest--for the Liberal Democrats, but also for them.
An amazing thing for an American is that the election campaign of only four weeks is concluded today (Thursday), and only one hour after the polls close the first complete results will come in. Within another few hours is will all be done.
It helps, of course, that there is only one race (for member of Parliament) on the ballot, of course.
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David Cameron has borrowed many public relations ideas from Barack Obama and had one of Obama's 2008 advisors, Anita Dunn, help him with TV debate preparation. but the conservative (and Conservative) London Telegraph is warning Cameron against emulating Obama.
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