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Hillary Clinton 2016? If she wants it, then yes. - Spectator Blogs
Yes, yes, yes, speculating about the 2016 Presidential election before Barack Obama has even begun his second term is a silly business. But so what? Silly things can be fun… Continue reading
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Barack Obama’s best voice: Michael Grunwald
No Obama policy – not even ‘Obamacare’ – has been derided quite as much as his stimulus package and the $787 billion Recovery Act passed in February 2009. It became… Continue reading
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America’s new political battles begin
It may be less than a fortnight since the 2012 US elections, but it’s never too early to start speculating about what might happen in the next ones. So here’s… Continue reading
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Briefing: The US fiscal cliff
With the elections over and Barack Obama returned to the White House for four more years, the attention of US politicians has turned to the so-called ‘fiscal cliff’ — a… Continue reading
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The Democrats won more than just the Presidency on Tuesday night
The focus, of course, is on President Barack Obama’s resounding re-election — but there are plenty of other reasons why Democrats are celebrating Tuesday night’s results. In the summer, it… Continue reading
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Barack Obama is Re-Elected President of the United States - Spectator Blogs
Well, I was wrong. I thought Mitt Romney might do rather better than it seems he has. As I type this CNN has just called Ohio for Barack Obama, confirming… Continue reading
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Presidential Predictions: Barack Obama 294 Mitt Romney 244 - Spectator Blogs
Asked my prediction a few days ago, I looked at all the possibilities and plumped for Obama 294, Romney 244. This is tediously in the middle of the general range… Continue reading
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Barack Obama Deserves A Second Term - Spectator Blogs
No matter the result of today’s Presidential election, it will not be Morning in America tomorrow. Of course the successful candidate will talk of America’s essential greatness. He will promise… Continue reading
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The Continental Divide: Why are Red States So Red and Blue States So Blue? - Spectator Blogs
So, for the third time in the last four American elections it looks as though this contest is gonna be a close one. As in 2004, however, the narrow-but-significant advantage… Continue reading
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The Republican party didn't leave Michael Bloomberg. He was never really in it. - Spectator Blogs
If two things could have been predicted about Hurricane Sandy it was that, first, far too many people would waste time pondering the likely impact of the storm upon next… Continue reading
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US Elections: Will everything just stay the same?
We’re now just a week away from election day in the United States. And after all the campaign rallies, all the debates, all the billions of dollars spent, it looks… Continue reading
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Vice-President Biden closes the enthusiasm gap
The conventional wisdom dictates that debates between VP candidates are nights that should only interest political anoraks. But the last eight days have not been good for conventional wisdom: remember… Continue reading
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‘Are you better off?’ won’t be a winning debate line for Mitt Romney
‘Are you better off than you were four years ago?’ That was the question Ronald Reagan told Americans to ask themselves when choosing their President in 1980, and it’s a… Continue reading
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The Weakness of the Case for a Romney Comeback - Spectator Blogs
Bob Wright correctly observes that we should soon be treated to a barrage of Romney Combeack stories chiefly because the press needs a new story to tell and this is… Continue reading
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God, guns,welfare: conspiracy theories about working class Americans
Mitt Romney has been caught saying what he really thinks – or in modern journalistic jargon has committed a ‘gaffe’. Serious American commentators believe that his election challenge is all… Continue reading
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Democrats pull ahead in key US Senate races
When I looked at the battle for the United States Senate back in July, I said it’d be tough for the Democrats to retain control. But since then — and… Continue reading
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Conventional wisdom says the conventions are awful. Conventional wisdom is correct. - Spectator Blogs
My friend Kerry Howley heroically tried to find something nice to say about the conventions now mercifully past; I’m made of cheaper stuff and have written a piece for Foreign… Continue reading
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Barack Obama Plays it Safe - Spectator Blogs
I’ll have a fuller, more considered take on Barack Obama’s convention speech in tomorrow’s Scotsman but my initial impression was that this is not one of those Obama speeches people… Continue reading
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Bill Clinton: The Great Communicator on Top Form - Spectator Blogs
Barack Obama is a great orator – something of which we shall doubtless be reminded tonight – but Bill Clinton is the greater communicator. His speech to the Democratic convention… Continue reading
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Obama’s bitterly conservative campaign
Republicans like to say that Barack Obama’s 2008 slogan ‘Hope’ has been replaced by ‘Fear’. And they are right. If you listen to Obama and his campaign paladins, you might… Continue reading
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