John McCain
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/ Guy Rundle
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
Obama’s achievement before anything has occurred is this: that every vector of power – money, race, media – has been defeated in the US, the declining but still regnant capitol of the world, writes Guy Rundle.
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
Politics is less a science than a mysterious art form. Obama has finessed a brilliant victory, but a far from conclusive one, writes Binoy Kampmark.
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
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.
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008
With no strong third party this time, a simple ‘doing of the math’ tells you that if Obama beats McCain by anything more than a few points, he will get over half the vote, writes Peter Brent.
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Mayor Richard Daley has predicted a million people could turn up, and the space is available on the sprawling lake-side green known as “Chicago’s front porch”, reports Daniel Ziffer from Chicago’s Grant Park.
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Despite the fantasies of some of the people in those McCain crowds, Barack Obama is neither a Kenyan Saul Alinsky nor a Muslim Bill Ayers but a mainstream American Democrat, writes Jeff Sparrow.
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008
Cuban President Fidel Castro has praised Obama as “more intelligent” than McCain, Reuters reports.
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
The crowd at the Obama rally was huge and the mood was upbeat. The undertone of the Palin rally was fear, fear, fear, writes Obama supporter Ebony Bennett.
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Obama hasn’t won yet, writes Rich Galen at Townhall.
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
The Huffington Post rounds-up all the pundits’ predictions.
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Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Obama leads by eight points coming in to the last day of the campaign, writes the Wall Street Journal.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
The Republican campaigns we visited were noticeably more subdued, but that’s hardly surprising in a state where the Democrats have held the majority in the state legislature for years, writes Ebony Bennett.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
Mathematically, John McCain could still win the election, writes The Guardian.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
The amount of polling at this election is phenomenal, but it does not, overall, have Obama in unbeatable territory, writes Peter Brent.
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/ Bernard Keane
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Monday, 3 November 2008
Barack Obama is a lucky man, writes Bernard Keane.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
Ministering to undecided voters is a tough gig, writes Salon.
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Monday, 3 November 2008
Today’s Harper’s Mr Fish cartoon takes a Peanuts look at the McCain campaign.
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Friday, 31 October 2008
That Obama lead of 5.4% doesn’t even begin to tell the full story of just how far McCain is behind, writes Possum Comitatus.
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Friday, 31 October 2008
Talking Points Memo crunch the numbers to see whether McCain is actually making up ground on Obama.
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Friday, 31 October 2008
McCain bussed in over 2500 local school children to fill the crowd at a rally in Ohio yesterday, reports the Huffington Post.
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Friday, 31 October 2008
The media hate landslides, because the suspense of a close election is supposed to sell more newspapers or advertising time, writes Charles Richardson.
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Friday, 31 October 2008
John McCain has been embarrassingly stood-up by Joe the plumber at an Ohio rally, writes the Wall Street Journal.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
McCain can tap into the Republican and moderate Democratic base in Pennsylvania, writes Pajamas Media.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Obama’s lead in the polls has slipped, Talking Points Memo reports, but he still remains ahead.
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Cultural divisions in America have allowed McCain to stay in the race, writes Howard Fineman at Newsweek.
