BRITS DECIDE – AT 7:52 P.M. ET:  Britain has voted.  Exit polls show a conservative victory, but not a majority of Parliament.  In other words, a hung Parliament.

Exit polls at this hour are showing 305 seats for the Tories, 255 for Labour, 61 for the Liberal Dems, and 29 for others.  This is where the beauty of the two-party system shows up. 

The Tories would need about 20 votes more in Parliament to have their majority.  The question is whether they can get that number from the smaller parties, without having to make a deal with Labour, or, more dreadful, the nutty Liberal Dems.

More coming on this.

May 6, 2010