October 7, 2008
John McCain's decision on Wednesday to pull out of Michigan--a state which Democrat John Kerry edged with a margin of just over 3 percentage points in 2004 and was highly sought after by GOP strategists in the build-up to this year's election cycle--illustrates the increasingly bleak el...
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The Wall Street Journal opined on Saturday that one of the reasons insurance companies are in trouble right now is because some Senators - such as Democratic leader Harry Reid - talked about how “certain” insurance companies may face trouble, even bankruptcy” when the stock markets...
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Today, there are 30 days remaining before the US votes on November 4th. In the coming weeks, I shall report on the events shaping the race, but right now this is Obama’s election to lose. He is an average of seven percentage points ahead in the national polls, and on top of this his votes are ...
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Now, I know what you’re thinking: “That’s as opposed to what, exactly?” But it’s as opposed to talking about how John McCain and Sarah Palin are maaaavericks; and how John McCain was a POW. Did you know he was a POW? Yes, faced with plummeting polling figures (hurrah!),...
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No issue is more contentious than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. America's longstanding support of Israel - consistent through Democrat and Republican administrations - is well known, and stands in contrast to global public opinion which, while abhorring violence from both sides, generally has mo...
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One close call after another . . .This way and that . . . Twistin' and turnin' at the blink of an eye.A description of the McCain-Palin campaign to date? Actually, the above lines are from an advertisement promoting a new roller coaster called the "Maverick."A Jotman reader writes:CNN had a citizen...
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42% more people watched the Vice-Presidental debate than the Presidential debate. How weird is that? Consensus seems to be Biden did best, but Palin exceeded expectations and held up okay. However Obama now has a commanding leads in the polls - almost 6% nationally and almost 2:1 in the electoral co...
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Sarah Palin's name can lead to a lot of word play. One word that sounds the same is "paling", which means the sticks (pales) to make a picket fence. Another meaning is to lose colour and we can go down an obvious racial line that suggests a certain outcome if Governor Palin is opposing Senator Obama...
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Writing in the Guardian, American sociologist Richard Sennett explains why Obama's biography and message does not resonate better with working-class Americans:One thing I've learned about political messages targeted at the working class is that declaring "the system has screwed you" is likely to bac...
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A very interesting article by Roger Ebert, of Siskel and Ebert fame. Two insights which particularly stood out for me as being absolutely spot-on: that it was as if Palin “was being asked to defend her doctoral thesis without having written it”; and the comparison to an actor speaking Sh...
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