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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
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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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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.
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Tuesday, 28 October 2008
So far Barack Obama has over two times as many newspaper endorsements as his flagging Republican challenger John McCain, writes Crikey intern Nicholas Yallop.
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Thursday, 25 September 2008
Speaking to the American people, President Bush today detailed why an economic bailout plan is needed and why his administration’s rescue plan for the economy is “necessary.”
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Friday, 19 September 2008
Includes a brief step-by-step summary of the process
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Wednesday, 3 September 2008
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.
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Monday, 25 August 2008
Kevin Rudd finally comes home
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Thursday, 22 May 2008
Guy Rundle still reporting from the US Democratic primaries…
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Thursday, 20 March 2008
The idealistic and angry Brendan Nelson … chequebook journalism and bad news … the US election … Tibet … Patel …
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Tuesday, 5 February 2008
This is Guy Rundle reporting…
