William Shatner’s Inaugural Address
(After Winning the First Post-Two-Party Presidential Election) Friends, Americans, Countrymen! Lend me your ears. I come to bury our two-party system, not praise it. I stand before you today, not…
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Should We Pillory Hillary?
Hillary Clinton must reject the stigma that abortion should be legal but ‘rare’ Agreeing with anti-choice activists on even that single word hurts women and the cause of reproductive rights…
Kudos to Tabatha Southey on her Serengeti-prism for viewing Obama’s success
Republican voters?Commentators are diving into the gizzards of the election statistics to find out why Mitt Romney was so soundly trounced in a year when all odds (if you exclude…
Mitt Romney’s three miscalculations
Polls never lie, eh?Seems they can make you see things that aren't there, as the Romney team did big time:They made three key miscalculations, in part because this race bucked…
Obama’s victory in pictures
Courtesy of Edison Research, here's a simple way to analyse the Obama 2012 victory – as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words ...The empathy gap:Romney lost the…
‘Tis the midnight hour, and here are the very first results of the presidential election
And the first results of the 2012 presidential election come from the little town of Dixville Notch:As all of you West Wing fans out there will know, a tiny town…
Presidential election: Trouble brewing in Ohio
Ohio Secretary of Sate Jon Husted Voting day is not even here and lawsuits are flying thicker than bats in a musty cave. Ohio is the key state – the…
The Obama Second Term
Tomorrow the Americans vote for their next president. I expect President Obama to be re-elected, and have a few thoughts about the shape of his second term. President Obama It…
Sandy & FEMA: How Obama can ensure his second term, if he moves fast
The gods of politics abhor predictability and delight in upsetting humans’ applecarts. Just when Mitt Romney was doing so well, along came hurricane Sandy, wreaking devastation on the eastern seabord.…
Three Reasons why Obama’s Second Term will be a Transformative One
The Great Storyteller Not only America but the rest of the world would benefit from President Obama being voted in for a second term, because that term will be a…
Battleground States: Romney now leads Obama in 11 states
And the winner is ….? Romney now leading in 11 Battleground States, says the Rasmussen survey of those states released on Monday October 22, before the final debate: In the…
Political gravestone for President Obama if he loses
The arc of the presidential campaign of 2012 would be a fitting inscription for a political tombstone should President Obama not win re-election. The CNN Poll of Polls as of…
Obama & Romney: Who is the "change"candidate this time?
President Obama surged to victory in 2008 riding the twin horses of “hope” and “change”, in the process beating off Hillary Clinton and then The Maverick and his moose-hunting Veep…
Debate 3: President Obama’s Last Chance to Channel Moses
Moses: Model for Obama? Alan Schroeder, Journalism Professor at Northeastern U, has an interesting post in Huffington Post entitled The Dramatic Arc of the 2012 Presidential Debates. It is worth…
Presidential Election: The Battle of the Pollsters
Nate Silver – 538 pollster While most Americans are focusing on the battle between Obama and Romney, hardcore political junkies (such as you) are also darting from one poll to…
Debate 2 Obama & Romney: The role of the moderator and questions for CNN
Romney, Crowler, Obama The furor over the intervention by moderator Candy Crowler in the second presidential debate has not died down, nor will it before November 6. The Republicans are…
Debate 2: The Benghazi Question – Was moderator Crowley briefed beforehand?
President Obama in the Rose Garden Lots of airtime about the Libyan attack on America’s consulate, and lots of confusion about whether the Obama administration deliberately avoided linking the attack…
Presidential race: It all comes down to Ohio
As this mapshows: No wonder so much money is being spent on ads in Ohio.
Is Obama writing off Florida, North Carolina and Virginia?
The dust has barely started settling from Debate 2 and the rumour mills are grinding, grinding, grinding … Daily Kos has this comment on a possible abandonment of 57 electoral…
Mitt Romney’s China Doctrine
Every president needs a foreign policy doctrine (ala the Monroe Doctrine) to act as a package for his foreign policies. What will Romney’s Doctrine be? Romney has told Americans what…