We didn't vote for him.
We couldn't; we weren't in the country on election day. We couldn't apply for an absentee ballot either. We hadn't registered to vote.
We couldn't you see, we aren't citizens. We aren't even residents, legal or otherwise. We live in Scotland.
We would have voted for him if we could.
We don't usually watch the TV news in the morning. If the TV is on it's for our son to watch cartoons while he waits for the school bus.
So why, that morning in November, were we sitting on the sofa watching the news, our breakfast bowls perched unsteadily on our knees as we punched the air and chanted "four more years, four more years"? Is it just because the world sleeps safer when there is a Democrat in the oval office?
We chatted about it later over dinner. Her feelings on the matter were much the same as mine. It was more than sleeping safer in our beds. More than "The West Wing" making US politics seem so much more interesting than UK politics. More than wanting the (moderate) left to triumph everywhere.
It was that, when a black man whose middle name is "Hussein" and who has come out in favour of gay marriage can get re-elected President of the United States of America, it gives us all, wherever we are and whatever our dreams - to re-state the man himself - the audacity to hope.
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Convention approves late vote -
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