Hope he doesn't mind me lifting this little Twitter exchange, but here's Biased BBC's DB reminding the ever-opinionated Hugh Sykes of his failings as an observer of U.S. politics:
@HughSykes @BBCMarkMardell "GOP midterms fail" Seem to recall the same BBC narrative pre-2010.
— DB (@4d2b) October 1, 2013
As DB himself puts it, "Wrong in 2010, wrong again".