TWO DAYS TO GO IN BRITAIN – AT 9:05 A.M. ET:  Britain votes Thursday, with the current prime minister, Gordon Brown, given almost no chance of keeping his job and its benefits.  Looks reasonably good for the conservative, David Cameron, as The Telegraph reports:

David Cameron is closing in on an outright victory in Thursday’s election and has to win over voters in just 14 seats to secure a parliamentary majority, according to a poll of marginal constituencies for The Daily Telegraph.

With momentum building behind the Tories, party strategists believe Mr Cameron is “on the cusp” of being able to form a government by the weekend. The Conservatives are on course to seize at least 103 seats from Labour – 14 shy of the 117 needed to secure an overall majority, the poll shows.

It found a swing of 7.5 per cent to the Tories in the Labour seats they are targeting.

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Even if Mr Cameron failed to secure a clear majority, the Telegraph poll indicates he could form a minority government with support from unionist MPs in Northern Ireland and independents.

COMMENT:  That's reasonably good news for the United States, not such good news for President Obama, who clearly would prefer that one of the leftish parties win. 

At the same time, David Cameron is no Churchill or Thatcher.  But he'll do for now, and may we see him greeting a new American president in January of 2013.

May 4, 2010