It occurs to me that I should add that John Howard only called the election last week. That means he and Rudd only have 6 weeks to campaign before the election. SIX WEEKS, PEOPLE!

People here keep asking me who will win the American election. It’s very hard to explain to people who have a simple 6-week election that anything could happen in the upcoming 13 months of campaigning for the American presidency. Our primaries are more than SIX MONTHS before the election, for God’s sake!

As weird as I find it that the prime minister can call an election at his whim, consider it: only six weeks of serious campaigning. I’m already sick of the American election and I’m halfway across the world.