“See the thing is when you start to let Jesus in a little bit, he gives you a little bit, and then you use that to get more, and it just keeps on going.” Somewhere out of Daytona Beach, the taxi whizzing through the flatlands, I realised the trip was going to be trouble. There […]
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Rundle: Romney’s soft money (and Andy Griffith) hit Obama hard
Barack Obama might have raised more money, but it’s the Super PACs pushing Mitt Romney to the line harder. The final days will be a battle of TV ads.
READ MORERundle: a conservative Heritage in knife-edged DC
If Barack Obama goes down Democrats may reflect on why they cannot combine reason and emotion. Our correspondent visits a gathering of conservatives in DC.
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Rundle: direct democracy, through a laid-back dope haze
This was not what the founding fathers had in mind on direct democracy; our correspondent ventures inside a laid-back rally aimed at softening cannabis laws.
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Rundle: prepare for a minority-voted president, America
Barack Obama continues to slide into the polls — perhaps out of favour with the country overall. How will the US handle a president the majority of people didn’t vote for?
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Rundle: on a Virginia night, Romney’s nerdshow rolls on
Virginia is a microcosm of America: an urbane north and rural south. Guess who turned up to see Mitt Romney? It was short but, to the faithful, perfectly sweet.
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Rundle: Romney sorta won the debate because Obama didn’t
Mitt Romney won the debate for the simple reason that Barack Obama lost it, our man in the US reckons. And the latest polling shows voters tend to agree.
READ MORERundle: Obama did better, but this was no home run
Republican Mitt Romney exposed his neck in the second US presidential debate in New York today, but Barack Obama didn’t sink his teeth in. Our man watched on from a bar in Brooklyn.
READ MORERundle: Obama brings it in Romney rematch
Expectations are high ahead of Obama versus Romney rematch this afternoon, the second of three presidential debates. Mitt’s in striking distance of the White House and Barry couldn’t possible do worse this time.
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From the vault: meet blowsy Evan and the deep disquiet of Tea Party faithful
Despite looking like a spectacled jewalike, our correspondent infiltrates a Tea Party-aligned poll squad on the US campaign trail. But will Rundle miss out on the juiciest bit?
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Richard Farmer’s chunky bits: Google gets it wrong on Romney
Richard Farmer prepares to don the hat of embarrassment, after Crikey readers voted that the Prime Minister’s stirring misogyny speech would actually do her any good electorally.
READ MORERundle: Obama’s ‘diffident professor’ act misfires in Ohio
With debate terrors behind him, Barack Obama is back in the territory that won over America four years ago, at thousands-strong campaign rallies still pining for 2008’s candidate. It’s not the same.
READ MORERundle: polls return to Romney as he finds foreign fire
The polls are returning to Mitt Romney. And despite the capture of Osama bin Laden, Barack Obama has questions to answer on foreign policy.
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Rundle: 90 minutes is a long time in US politics …
From a debate week disaster, to the latest job figures “boom”, Barack Obama is riding the yo-yo of break-neck politics. Guy Rundle writes from the US presidential campaign trail.
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Women aren’t destroying the joint, they’re deciding who runs it
Women voters could make or break the US presidential result. Tanja Kovac takes a look at gender-based campaigning in the US, and gleans some lessons for Australia.
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NMaybe, just maybe, Obama had something on his mind
Polling suggests 67% of the 62 million viewers scored yesterday’s US presidential debate as a win for Mitt Romney over Barack Obama. After surveying Denver we’re not so sure.
READ MORERundle’s verdict: where’s the zinger? Debate ends in a draw
An assertive Mitt Romney fired up in the first US presidential debate tonight — but it probably wasn’t enough to eat into a lacklustre Barack Obama’s lead.
READ MOREOutside the airport, everything is a disappointment
God, the debate is a few hours away and I’m still at the airport. Spiritually speaking.
READ MOREPresidential debate in quotes: who owns the middle class?
Barack Obama and Mitt Romney vied for the middle class vote in their first presidential debate today. Here’s what they said.
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Memo to Obama: what to say in debates
A memo presented to Obama’s team ahead of today’s presidential debate contains interesting suggestions on how centre-left parties should present themselves. Read the memo here.
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Voter ID issue hits US election (but won’t help Mitt)
Voter ID and voter suppression have re-entered the political debate in the US — but it won’t help Mitt Romney win Pennsylvania. Crikey begins its swing of the battleground states.
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Rundle: Mitt hits the fan as swing states lean to Obama
It doesn’t look good for Mitt Romney and the Republican Party. And there’s a host of excuses why. Crikey previews the race before landing stateside this week.
READ MOREIf Obama stays home the Senate could be the fight
With the Democrats post-convention bump settling into a nice two-to-three lead in the presidential race, Obama is starting to breathe a little easier. But the real fight might be in the Senate.
READ MOREObama gets a bump as talkshow Mitt looks a chump
Five days after the close of the Democratic National Convention, it’s now clear that Barack Obama has gained the much-talked about bump in his polling, writes Guy Rundle from New York.
READ MOREFlynt: I’ll pay a million bucks for Romney’s tax records
Hustler publisher Larry Flynt has bought full page ads in USA Today and Washington Post, offering a million dollars to anyone who can supply Mitt Romney’s financial records, reports Eric Pfeiffer.
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