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Tuesday, 9 December 2008
If elections are worth doing at all, they’re worth doing right, writes Charles Richardson.
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Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Given the prevailing winds at Obama’s back during this campaign that are not going to be there in four years time, Obama can’t afford to rely on merely goodwill to get re-elected in four years time. Morgan Poll Manager Julian McCrann provides the numbers.
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Monday, 10 November 2008
In dreary two party systems like ours electoral gravity tends to even things out, writes Peter Brent.
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Monday, 10 November 2008
Our days as Washington’s pet poodle are well and truly over; another pooch entirely is to be installed in the White House, writes Mungo MacCallum.
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Friday, 7 November 2008
Microsoft Excel ACDC video clip… no byline for Obama photographers… Dump your date with iphone… Stephen Colbert wins Marvel world presidency…
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Friday, 7 November 2008
But in California the mass influx of minority voters wound up more influential in a ballot initiative to amend the Constitution of California to define marriage as between only a man and a woman, writes Noah Riseman.
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Friday, 7 November 2008
Obama, Rundle, Crikey, First Dog and US08 … race and politics … Proposition 8 … the Rudd agenda …
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Friday, 7 November 2008
It seems that for the US press what goes on the campaign stays on the campaign, writes Jonathan Green.
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/ Guy Rundle
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Friday, 7 November 2008
Three days in and no-one’s stopped smiling, and this sense of freedom, of release, of possibility, seems to spread outward and inward, writes Guy Rundle.
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Friday, 7 November 2008
The US election produced many a bizarre media moment but the moment of triumph, the froth on a cold one, came via CNN’s “hologram” technology during Wednesday’s coverage of Election Day, writes”Simon Huggins.
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
And so it cam to pass — the US has a black president. Here’s how the pundits are deconstructing that change to America’s idea of itself.
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
As the Republican team packs up their bat and ball and goes home, the fallout begins.
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Thursday, 6 November 2008
The Golden State will go a deep shade of blue today, but Barack Obama’s popularity might have unintended consequences down the ticket, writes Mike Safi.
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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
Most Americans might no longer have an hang-up about race, but Janet Albrechtsen sure does, writes Bernard Keane.
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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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Thursday, 6 November 2008
President elect Barack Obama is already announcing the all important team that will surround him as he prepares to tackle the unprecedented challenges of a global economic meltdown, climate change and two wars.
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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
Charles Richardson explains Mackerras’ pendulum and the swing states.
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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
If you want to see the real agenda of America’s political movements, take a look at the propositions they put up in dates where issues can be put to a ballot by public signature, writes Stephen Luntz.
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Wednesday, 5 November 2008
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Friday, 31 October 2008
Our round-up of the best news, analysis and videos from today’s US election coverage
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Thursday, 30 October 2008
Australia’s longest serving minister for foreign affairs Alexander Downer talks to Business Spectator’s Isabelle Oderberg about the US election.
