"The one thing which one can say about this election -- and we haven't been able to say this for any election within living memory -- is that the only certain thing is that we cannot predict the outcome, even on the day before the poll."
VOA: standard.2010.05.05
Withinlivingmemory, all public universities in California were nominally free (fees were assessed, but were comparatively quite low).
Some countries have been through more loss withinlivingmemory and are better at grieving, but not so in Western Europe and the U.S. The economic healing process may take a long time.