Democrats Celebrate Mississippi, Set Up Committee to Work Out What One Does With a Senate
Washington celebrates one hard-won seat and is already asking for $40 million in donations to defend it in two years' time.
The Democratic Party declared victory in Mississippi and immediately sent 11 million emails asking for money to celebrate it.
A source in the national leadership explained that the seat is decisive. What for is not yet known, but the fundraising is already done.
On the Republican side, a strategist who asked not to be named described the result as a miscalculation by the polls, the electorate and the geography.
The two parties agreed on one thing: the election cost the equivalent of a small European nation, and Mississippi still has the same roads.
The pigeon of the Assembleia da República (Portugal's parliament), consulted by Lisbon, observed that the country where votes cost the most per head is also the one that complains the most about the price.
Both parties agreed the election cost a small European nation. The roads remain exactly the same.
The reality behind the satire
Real news · clarin.com · 11 November
Mississippi elege democrata Scott Colom, primeiro senador negro pelo estado dos EUA em 150 anos
This story, published by a real newspaper, inspired the piece above. The Falsumundi piece is made up; this story is not.
