In an earlier post, on 27 October, I wrote about an American novelist who had been interviewed on the BBC’s Broadcasting House to object to the term ‘swing states’ in the coverage of the US elections and to claim that Britons were more racist than Americans. I took issue with the assertions made in the…
I was listening to Broadcasting House on Radio 4 on Sunday morning when they introduced a listener, an American novelist, who wanted to complain about the coverage in the UK of American politics. She took exception to references to ‘swing states’ on the grounds that Americans took the view that each vote counted as equal. …
