The Thunderdome Debate The Cat forecasts that once the post-debate polls are in hand some time tomorrow, Romney will be seen by most Americans as having won both the two debates. His margin of victory for the second debate will be much less than in the first, but I expect
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CuriosityCat: Women pushing Romney to the top in Battleground States
Obama had had a very comfortable margin over Romney with women voters. But since his incompetent debate performance, women have given Mitt Romney a second look. And now many of them are deciding to vote for him. So many that Romney is beating Obama in the Battleground States: Mitt Romney
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Presidential Election: Is this what happened?
Demonized Mitt The article in the Washington Post summarizes a plausible scenario for the dynamics of the race so far, and highlights the dangers of not having a Plan B if your main strategy (demonize your opponent) falters: All of this suggests that the presidential race changed in some fundamental
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Berry & Bickers: Obama will lose; say hello to President Romney
Berry & Bickers electoral map forecast Two professors who have a forecast model with an accuracy rate of 100% for the past 8 presidential elections believe that the next president will be named Mitt Romney. Michael J. Berry, of the University of Colarado, Denver, and Kenneth N. Bickers, of the
Continue readingCuriosityCat: US Elections: What about the House? And the Senate? The news is not good
House of Representatives – No change In 2012 the control of all three of the political bodies is up for grabs: the Presidency, the House of Representatives, and the Senate. Right now the President is a Democrat, the Democrats loosely control the Senate, and the Republicans control the House. Come
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama & Romney: Are the polls skewed in Obama’s favour?
You’d think the results of so many polls would result in a fairly settled expectation of how many voters will vote for one of the two presidential candidates, but not so. The Republicans believe the polls are skewed and do not reflect the reality on the ground. Therefore, the race
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Mitt Romney’s failure: The Recession is Not Enough
Seems American voters want more than simply I am not the other guy from their presidential contenders, even when the country is suffering from a deep recession with high unemployment, which should doom the incumbent president: In their seminal book, This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Harvard
Continue readingCanadian Progressive: Same-sex marriage and the 2012 U.S. presidential election debate
As the 2012 U.S. presidential election approaches, it’s safe to assume that a significant chunk of the debate will revolve around same-sex unions. This graphic from the Marriage & Family Counseling puts things into perspective. Source: Marriage and Family Counseling Degrees RELATED: On the chopping block, Canada gay marriages Anderson Cooper: “The
Continue readingCuriosityCat: Obama’s Second Achilles Heel: Foreign Policy
Obama’s chances of a second term are now under the worst threat since the presidential election started. He faces a triple whammy of attacks on his Administration’s handling of Iran and Israel, the fate of the Marine who shot Osama bin Laden, and the deadly attack in Libya which killed
Continue readingCanadian Progressive World: Mexicans Protest Enrique Pena Nieto’s Stolen Presidency
An estimated 30 000 demonstrators marched through Mexico City on Sunday accusing President-elect Enrique Pena Nieto and his Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), of massive electoral fraud. The protesters carried placards with messages such as: “Fraud, Fraud”, “Winning by cheating is not winning at all and is illegal”, “You launder money, we
Continue readingDrive-by Planet: Jean-Luc Mélenchon: Left-Front surges in French polls
Left-Front firebrand Jean-Luc Mélenchon has moved ahead of far-right Marine Le Pen to become the third placed contender in the presidential campaign. He pulls no punches in his colorful descriptions of Le Pen and her far-right views, calling her “a dark presence” and a “filthy beast spewing out hatred.” Mélenchon
Continue readingLeft Over: WTF McCain?
Years ago, I had a certain grudging respect for John McCain…after all, he had fought his way through debilitating torture as a POW, seemed to be a bit of what, in Canada, we used to call a Red Tory, and until the last several years, was probably the least offensive
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