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Hello Bugleers and welcome to sub episode A of Bugle issue 4171, the A in this case standing

for Andy Zoltzman in other words me, could not face doing an episode previewing the US

selection after banging on about it so much for the last few months anyway and I'm also

not entirely convinced that the Bugle is a particularly effective tool for swaying the opinions

of undecided voters in the key swing states with all due respect.

A also stands for also it is school half term so I thought I'd try to avoid awkward questions

this week from my children such as daddy, why have you spent the last 45 minutes in the

shared shouting they'd bed not give the f**king formal f**king years.

So instead we're going to delve into the Bugle archives for previous pre-US election

bugles from years such as 2012, 2008, 1880, also I'm just hearing we did not actually

record a pre-election episode that year sorry to any James A Garfield fans because if you

lot haven't suffered enough and of course 2016, we will record a snap post election bugle

on Wednesday with Nishkumar and NATO Green, I cannot guarantee exactly at the stage what

the tone of that show will be, all I will say is don't worry America it doesn't really

matter one day the universe will end so there's always that.

Right time to hop into the Bugle time machine and go back to our first ever US election in

2008, back in the days when one old white man was controversially seen as more than enough

in any presidential election.

Your hosts back then in Bugle issue 51 John Oliver and um oh I always forget the other

one.

Top story this week and the Congo, just kidding the US election, Congo really picked the

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