Re: "Hopefully not a sign of things to come for the UK space industry"
"This also ignores that it's quite possible they'd elect someone else along similar lines"
Entirely possible. I just read that he is more popular now than Obama was at the same point in his first term.
There are a lot of people in the US who like what he says*, and additional millions who regard him as a necessary evil, given the alternatives. In another ten years, we may have enough information to judge.
It was clear by the time the primaries were winding down that there would be no good choices available.
*note that a lot of Americans don't understand the real world any better than a lot of British politicians... they just make different mistakes.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
