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I’m watching Barack Obama making his pitch to the American people. He is proposing jobs, health care and education, he acknowledges his limits. He attacks McCain for going to Iraq and not the cities and towns which have been hit by the economic problems. It is inspiring and it is impressive stuff. The issue is [...]

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and so, it begins

We have all (who are interested in politics, the US and our own general welfare) watched and waited for the results. John McCain came through early,in relation to the Democrats, in the primary race seeing off my original favourite Rudolph Giuliani with ease, then Mitt Romney and finally without much fan-fayre Mike Huckerbee. The [...]

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Barack Obama is, according to almost every news source going, this evening on the verge of claiming the Democratic Party’s nomination for President. I was, as has been said here previously, really hoping that the Dem fight would go to the convention. The race has been long (Clinton and Obama starting in early 2007), and [...]

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Shock news from the lair of uber-Dem Susan Sarandon; if John McCain gets elected in November she’s going to quit the US to to take up residence in either Italy or Canada. Does anyone care, past her fellow Democrat husband Tim Robbins (whom she presumably consulted before telling everyone), enough for it to be a [...]

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There has been a hell of a lot of talk recently about how Clinton cannot possibly win against John McCain come November’s general election. However this evenings exit polls are posing some awkward questions for Barack Obama’s campaign. CNN is reporting that (yeah, I realise that this could be somewhat skewed);
According to early exit polls, [...]

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Mike Smithson over at politicalbetting.com has posted a short article on an attack ad being run by the N. Carolina GOP, the attack ad is included in the article. The add highlights Barack Obama’s relations with his now infamous Pastor Wright. McCain is apparently trying to shut it down, but will the N. Carolina GOP [...]

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Having taken the G.O.P. nomination on Tuesday night and gained the endorsement of President George W. Bush this afternoon, John McCain’s campaign must now ensure that Hillary Clinton either wins the D.N.C. nomination or else ensure that the process continues through until the Democratic Party’s convention in the summer. The second thing on McCain’s todo [...]

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