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In naming an election date eight months out, Julia Gillard’s inner circle are establishing the first US-style election campaign in Australia’s history. Tony Abbott will be cast similarly to Mitt Romney.

American electoral behaviour is becoming more predictable and more polarised. The final tallies for voting in the US election show Barack Obama didn’t win by all that much.

Republican-leaning pundits predicted the US election result more on hope more than common sense. Now there’s egg all over their faces as Democrats celebrate.

Barack Obama won 55% of the female vote, meaning it was women who decided this year’s presidential election. Politicians who refuse to take women’s concerns and freedoms seriously are now on notice.

Republicans have to learn from this loss, writes David Smith of Sydney University’s United States Studies Centre. Moving even further right would only alienate more American voters.

Capturing the US news websites as they called the election for Democratic President Barack Obama …

After the longest and most expensive campaign in history, Crikey’s writer-at-large returns to DC where hopes are high for a clear result — and common sense.

Election day USA is about more than who’ll be president. Our man in America previews key races in the Senate, the House of Representatives and gubernatorial elections across the nation.

Barack Obama will serve as President of the United States for another four years after a decisive win. Crikey captures all the colour and results that matter as election night unfolded.

A cup day bet that cannot lose. It is a punter’s dream bet — back all the runners and win whatever wins. And as I write this at 11.30am on Melbourne Cup Day you can still guarantee yourself a profit on the US presidential election. All you need is an account with Betfair in Australia and Intrade […]

Four years of campaigning end today as votes are counted in the US presidential election. Our man-at-large assesses the state of play and the possible scenarios, however fanciful …

Come election day it will be chaos in Florida, Ohio, Virginia. Hence the ground game, with Guy Rundle tagging along with Obama supporters doorknocking to convince potential voters to vote early.

The weather’s on steroids. Perhaps historians will look back at the storm that ravaged the Caribbean and north-east America and mark it as the event that ended the complacency in the United States about global warming. Certainly there are signs of a change in attitudes with the business publication Bloomberg Businessweek being an example. The magazine […]

Examining the current presidential polls in the US, Japan’s enormous deficit (and deadlocked parliament) and other political views from around the globe.