The champagne is running!

Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Mexico in the bag, likely to be followed by Indiana, Virginia, Colorado and Nevada. Hats off to Plouffe and Axelrod, great strategy on the key battlegrounds. McCain is delivering its concession speech outside to freezing supporters rather than in the fancy ballroom they had set up for victory… let’s celebrate!
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The show of shows

You don’t get a political night bigger than this. It’s not just an Americn election, it’s not just the American election that will end the disastrous Bush presidency, it’s the American election that will end the disastrous Bush presidency and be starting (fingers crossed) the Obama presidency, a black man with a completely un-American approach [...]

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The last days of a losing campaign…

No words, just pathetic…

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What’s the point of the economic summit? Anyone?

The White House today announced the celebration of the economic summit in New York in mid-November. The G-20 countries are meeting up to design a new structure for capitalism. It definitely sounds glamorous, it sounds like a 21st century Bretton Woods.
But there are two key reasons  why this economic summit is complete rubbish.
The first reason [...]

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Biden v Palin: an analysis

I managed tos stay up for this debate as well, probably because is the first time in history in which the Veep debate was more awaited than that of the main candidates to the Presidency.
I have to admit I was watching while doing other stuff because Palin’s performance was just appalling (no pun intended). I [...]

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Obama v McCain debate: an analysis

Yesterday I struggled to stay up to watch the first US presidential debate on CNN (unlike in 2004 BBC 1 wasn’t showing it) but I managed to watch it all and certainly wasn’t too impressed. Both candidates stuck to their messages and there was little interaction between them, more than a dialogue it was a [...]

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Best of Denver

Things are looking up for Barack Obama to become the next President in November. Although there is still a long way to go, including the presidential debates, it seems like the Democrats’ Convention served its purpose of reuniting and reenergising a campaign that was losing some steam in the past few weeks. On the other [...]

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Friday round-up

Well the weekend is upon us. Today it’s been an extremely unproductive day. I have watched most of the Olympics Inauguration Ceremony (really really impressive), failed to finish off the methodology section of my dissertation and not much inspiration for blogging today either. But just a quick post with a couple of interesting things I [...]

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New Obama video

Good work on the McSame front from Obama’s camp, message discipline is key in a race where both candidates’s political profiles haven’t yet been fully defined in the mind of the electorate.

Hat tip from TOK.
UPDATE: OK, so Paris Hilton isn’t precisely part of my top five all times favourite celebrities. But [...]

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Slogans done ‘right’

Guido Fawkes seems to think that Barack Obama is in trouble because The Huffington Post seems to be less happy with Obama today than it was a couple of months ago during primary season. He even predicts his candidacy will unravel by November… well if Obama is in trouble, what do you call these two [...]

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