Palin Effect: a dramatic move that sends a party’s base into rapturous high fives, and appeals to voters on some level, but still sends the middle ground running to the other candidate, writes Peter Brent.
Democrats and republicans
RNC Speakers — The world’s most famous ex-mayor, Rudy Guiliani
The lisping pro-choice, gay loving, wife-cheating, hard-nosed former Republican presidential nominee Rudolph W Giuliani was once Time Magazine person of the year.
RNC Speeches – Joe Lieberman, the Democrat goes Republican
Lieberman was a Democrat and he’s still kind of a Democrat but he’s buddies with John McCain so he said a few words at the RNC.
RNC Speech -Dubya gets it done
What George Bush said at the RNC: he likes McCain, but he loves his mum and dad.
Francis Leach: Politics in America is lived out loud
Crying over a political speech? I can’t imagine it at home. Then again, the Americans have Ted as their father of the Senate, we had Brian Harradine, writes Francis Leach.
DNC Speaker: Bill Ritter, Governor of Colorado
An all round Colorado boy, former district attorney turned Governor of Colorado Bill Ritter is anti-abortion but actively pro-gay/transgender rights with a mixed track record in his legal career including the accidental killing of an elderly man in Zambia…
DNC Speakers: Hillary Rodham Clinton
She’s one of the most recognised women in the world, the first First Lady to be elected to the Senate and the first woman to run for president of the USA. But who is Hillary Rodham Clinton?
US08 Media Wrap: Obama thwarts assassin, McCain returns dodgy donations
McCain Campaign to Return 50K in Donations … Who Is Bush to Lecture China? …
Guy Rundle: Rundle08: The Dems’ need for catharsis? Oh God…
Never underestimate the ability of the Democrats to remove the as yet undigested remains of defeat from the sifted faeces of victory, writes Guy Rundle.
US08 media wrap: Dems disenfranchising The Strip?
A judge has now thrown out the legal challenge filed by pro-Clinton members of the local Teachers Union to ban casino workers from taking part in Saturday’s Nevada caucuses and much more news from the primaries trail.
