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Economists rate the US Presidential candidates
The Economist has published the outcomes of a survey of 142 US academic economists assessing the economic policies of John McCain and Barack Obama. Completed prior to the current financial meltdown,...
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Its the economy what done it
US Presidential election trend polling data from Nate Silver’s five-thirty-eight site. The spike in Obama’s support coincides with the collapse of Lehman Brothers. Unless there is something really...
View ArticleRise of the Obamacons
This from The Economist. This trend was very much apparent when I was in the U.S., and John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin as running mate and the nasty (and scatty) nature of the Republica campaign...
View ArticleHoax muggings by black men: Republican campaign workers enter the crazy zone
This hoax by a Republican campaign worker who alleged that a black man mugged her at an ATM and carved a “B” on her face has won Larvatus Prodeo‘s Agincourt Award for the Longest Bow in Journalism. An...
View ArticleIndiana call centre workers refuse to read McCain campaign messages
Reported at Talking Points Memo. Call centre workers striking in the current U.S. economic climate, with no protection of their jobs. Some people are willing to fight. Particularly interesting that...
View ArticleSatire and the ’08 Campaign
Delighted to see Barack Obama win the US Presidential election. This is an election campaign that will be studied at a lot of levels for a long time. In fact, Barack Obama fought two tough campaigns,...
View ArticleTake down those stupid Facebook photos if you want to work for Barack Obama
From Personal Democracy Forum: Uh-oh. The day has finally arrived, when future White House employees must ask themselves, “Is that Facebook wall post still up where I ______?” “Did X tag me in that...
View ArticleObama campaign and social media
Information from the Politics Online site about how the Barack Obama presidential campaign made use of social media to build its victorious momentum: The Washington Post reports that in his 21 months...
View ArticleJay Rosen to Barack Obama: Be yourself!
Some interesting speculations by Jay Rosen on his PressThink site about the future shape of government/media realtions under the Obama administration in the U.S. The thing he is pretty sure of is that...
View ArticleWhy the 2012 US Presidential election matters
An interview has been published in Open Democracy with Professor Theda Skocpol, from the Kennedy School of Public Policy at Harvard University, about the forthcoming 2012 US Presidential election....
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