And the first results of the 2012 presidential election come from the little town of Dixville Notch:As all of you West Wing fans out there will know, a tiny town…
Ohio Secretary of Sate Jon Husted Voting day is not even here and lawsuits are flying thicker than bats in a musty cave. Ohio is the key state – the…
My advice to Justin Trudeau and his team if he is serious about standing up for the middle class, is to buy a copy of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made…
Tomorrow the Americans vote for their next president. I expect President Obama to be re-elected, and have a few thoughts about the shape of his second term. President Obama It…
Sarah Hampson We seem to have a conflict between three theories of what motivates conservatives to vote. On the one hand, we have the school of thought that says there…
PEW analysis of the 3 classes in the USA Justin Trudeau has written an opinion piece for The Toronto Star dealing with the hollowing out of Canada’s middle class, and…
The gods of politics abhor predictability and delight in upsetting humans’ applecarts. Just when Mitt Romney was doing so well, along came hurricane Sandy, wreaking devastation on the eastern seabord.…
Haida Gwaii earthquake 2012 Our recent earthquake was large – 7.7 on the Richter scale. The last major earthquake in the same region was in 1949. However, despite initial fears,…
Leah Eichler More and more we have to look to Europe for moral leadership, rather than to north America. And moral – as well as good business – guidance comes…
The Great Storyteller Not only America but the rest of the world would benefit from President Obama being voted in for a second term, because that term will be a…
Planless Obama & Ignatieff Having singlehandedly wiped out nine months of campaigning by blowing the first debate, President Obama has now finally released his plan for his next term: Obama’s…
President Obama’s handwriting Many believe that you can read a person’s character by studying their handwriting. A report in Ynetquotes the findings of a graphologist for the two gladiators. According…
US drone at Benghazi Here are fresh details about the Benghazi attack and the American response while the Ambassador and others were fighting for their lives: A U.S. ambassador is…
And the winner is ….? Romney now leading in 11 Battleground States, says the Rasmussen survey of those states released on Monday October 22, before the final debate: In the…
The arc of the presidential campaign of 2012 would be a fitting inscription for a political tombstone should President Obama not win re-election. The CNN Poll of Polls as of…
This Republican analysis thinks so: Our latest Pennsylvania poll conducted 10/11-10/13 and released by the Washington Examiner October 18thshows Mitt Romney has taken the lead over President Obama by a…
President Obama surged to victory in 2008 riding the twin horses of “hope” and “change”, in the process beating off Hillary Clinton and then The Maverick and his moose-hunting Veep…
Doug Saunders In today’s Globe & Mail Doug Saunders has an interesting article on the difficulty we are having in defining exactly what inequality means: That’s why inequality has replaced…
Moses: Model for Obama? Alan Schroeder, Journalism Professor at Northeastern U, has an interesting post in Huffington Post entitled The Dramatic Arc of the 2012 Presidential Debates. It is worth…
Nate Silver – 538 pollster While most Americans are focusing on the battle between Obama and Romney, hardcore political junkies (such as you) are also darting from one poll to…
