Presidential Election: The Battle of the Pollsters
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…
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Debate 2 Obama & Romney: The role of the moderator and questions for CNN
Romney, Crowler, Obama The furor over the intervention by moderator Candy Crowler in the second presidential debate has not died down, nor will it before November 6. The Republicans are…
Debate 2: The Benghazi Question – Was moderator Crowley briefed beforehand?
President Obama in the Rose Garden Lots of airtime about the Libyan attack on America’s consulate, and lots of confusion about whether the Obama administration deliberately avoided linking the attack…
Presidential race: It all comes down to Ohio
As this mapshows: No wonder so much money is being spent on ads in Ohio.
Is Obama writing off Florida, North Carolina and Virginia?
The dust has barely started settling from Debate 2 and the rumour mills are grinding, grinding, grinding … Daily Kos has this comment on a possible abandonment of 57 electoral…
Mitt Romney’s China Doctrine
Every president needs a foreign policy doctrine (ala the Monroe Doctrine) to act as a package for his foreign policies. What will Romney’s Doctrine be? Romney has told Americans what…
Why Mitt Romney will win the second debate
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…
Presidential Election: The Ground Game
The 2012 presidential election will be won by the get out the vote (GOTV) actions of the two parties, and the state of their ground games is critical to achieve…
The Republican Party: SS Titanic and the coming iceberg
SS Republican aka Titanic The Tea Party is winning the battle to be captain on board the good ship Republican, but just as they are about to grasp the wheel…
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.…
President Obama needs to morph into Moses if he wants to win
US cultural code for president Is the Cheese Doctor (Clotaire Rapaille) right? Does Mitt Romney fit the American code for president better than Obama does right now? That’s what Mike…
Israel & Iran: Mitt Romney accepts Israel’s Red Line
Iraeli & Romney Red Line? A dramatic difference has emerged between President Obama’s policy towards Iran and that of Romney. In his major foreign policy speech, Romney has taken a…
Post debate bounce for The Mitt
Seems so. His favourability rating is up and with about 70 million people watching him take President Obama behind the woodshed and whack him, more people know him. If, as…
Will “Walmart moms” help Obama win?
The Obama campaign is banking on it, and making a lot of withdrawals from its banks to fund TV ads targeted at them, an article in The Atlantic says: Democrats…
Presidential Debate: Reptilian Romney bests Cerebral Obama
In last night’s presidential debate, one man looked presidential; was incisive and decisive; marshaled facts and figures; confronted his opponent; was strongly assertive; beat back every challenge from the other…
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Use Facebook, twitter, email, blogs – whatever it takes. It is about voter fraud in the US – language is a bit rough, but her heart is in the right…
The American right wingnuts can be…
…crazy as batshit. (6) Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Gaffe Seekers
How does the Daily Show or Fox News uncover hypocrisy of the political right or left? Do they have employees watching every news channel, every hour, of every day? No,…
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…