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Palestine: Obama in the news

Posted by Jillian York · 4:06 am · Palestine

As Obama's visit to the West Bank draws near, Palestinian bloggers are talking - about that and about his recent "star turn" on the cover of The New Yorker. Find out what the Palestinian blogosphere thinks of U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama. 1 comments · read »

United Kingdom

Obama and McCain: men of the middle?, Kanishk Tharoor

Aggregated from: openDemocracy - USA

With the general election before us, the presidential campaign has at last shifted to the contest most of us have been relishing. John McCain vs. Barack Obama seems a battle of stark contrast: age against youth, experience against brash confidence, the "Great American Century" against 21s...

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Global: The World Has a Say!

Posted by Amira Al Hussaini · 7:16 pm · Afghanistan · Australia

A number of websites to poll readers from around the world on their choice of who the next president of the US should be have popped up recently. And while non-Americans do not have a vote in the elections, they are still having their say online. 0 comments · read »

Ireland

Huckabee’s Hit

Aggregated from: A Political Glimpse from Ireland

As of Friday night, the world was shocked as the former Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee called for a Hit on Barack Obama. Mr. Huckabee’s supporters fired their guns into the air at that point, damaging the NRA conference room causing further damage to an already tense situation. When aske...

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Canada

Newsmax: Huckabee Tops McCain VP List

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

Newsmax: Huckabee Tops McCain VP ListIt is looking more and more like Mike Huckabee could be selected as John McCain’s running mate. Other possibilities seem to include Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, Condi Rice, Joe Lieberman, Charlie Crist (Florida), Tom Palenty (Minnesota), Sarah P...

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Global: For Clinton, a new mandate from the ‘Mountain State'?

Posted by John Liebhardt · 12:13 pm · Israel · South Africa

For those of you who weren’t aware, West Virginia, the 41st-largest state in the United States, broke away from much larger Virginia in 1861, during the U.S. Civil War. It was in the mountain state Tuesday night, where West Virginia’s voters overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton 67 to 26 per cent over Democratic front-runner Barack Obama. John Liebhardt brings us the latest world's reactions to newest face off between the Democrats. 0 comments · read »

Barack Obama is a liar and other campaign news from Africa

Posted by John Liebhardt · 4:18 pm · Benin · Nigeria · South Africa

Why are some African bloggers calling Barack Obama a liar? And what do they have to say about the presidential hopeful's Race speech, campaign issues and foreign policy. John Liebhardt, who brings us other campaign news, looks into African blogs for reactions. 2 comments · read »

Thailand

Obama, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and Mike Huckabee

Aggregated from: J O T M A N . C O M

The story broke: Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's longtime pastor -- their relationship went back twenty years -- was on record as having said some outrageous -- or at any rate discriminatory -- things about whites to his congregations. As Americans began taking note of Obama's radical-sounding... C...

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Poland

A Poll of Poles favours Obama

Aggregated from: The World Wants Obama

A poll on popular Polish webportal Onet.pl last month demonstrated a clear preference for Senator Obama. Given a choice between Obama, Clinton, McCain, Romney and Huckabee (or "I don't know" or "I'm not interested"), over 40% picked Obama. Which means that of those participants who had a candidate p...

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Canada

Romney drops out of Race

Aggregated from: Darryl Wolk Blog

Mitt Romney drops out of RaceObviously there was no point spending his own money for something that wasn't possible to win. Huckabee and Paul are sure to follow in short order. On the Republican side the debate is now about who will be McCain's VP.-Darryl...

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