Caught this from the Western Mail, a daily widely read in Wales. By the way, Wales is a small country next to England about the size of New Jersey.
Welsh connection is gone, but the new President’s influence will still get here
FOR a while, it looked like the US presidential election in November was going to be an all-Welsh affair.
A few months ago Hillary Clinton was the favourite to win the Democratic nomination, while Mitt Romney was many people’s bet for the Republican candidate.
Ms Clinton’s grandmother, Hannah Jones, was the daughter of Welsh migrants with roots in west Wales; Mr Romney can do better – his father-in-law, Rod, is from Nantyfyllon, near Maesteg.
Both candidates fell by the wayside, overcome by the star power of Barack Obama and the military pedigree of John McCain – but not before the Welsh connection gave us the oddest moment of the campaign: Gordon Brown [Britain's Prime Minister] explaining the Welsh Grand Slam win to Hillary Clinton back in April. Oh to have been a fly on the wall.
