Unlike U.S. newspapers, British newspapers (and many Continental newspapers, for that matter) do not hesitate to take a stand in their news coverage as well as their editorials.

So, the coverage of the U.S. election result spanned the spectrum from pro-Bush to anti-Bush (or pro-Kerry to anti-Kerry).

At one end, The Daily Telegraph, a broadsheet which tends to be pro-American and pro-Conservative Party, ran a headline Thursday reading:

Bush returned in triumph
President appeals to the nation to unite

The Telegraph front page also featured a favorable photo of Bush clasping his wife, Laura, and saluting.

On the other hand, the tabloid Daily Mirror, which was among the biggest opponents of the Iraq war, had a front page dominated by a photo of Bush with his fingers on his forehead and eyes closed. The top of the page had a small headline reading

DOH! 4 MORE YEARS OF DUBYA

And a larger headline reading:

How can 59,017,382 people be so DUMB?
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Like I said, they take sides.