Ron Paul's Message to SupportersDoesn't officially drop out of the race. No endorsement for McCain. I hope the Ron Paul Revolution lives on with an independent campaign for president.-Darryl...
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Posted by
Juan Arellano
· 3:52 pm
· Diaspora · Economy & Trade · Government & Politics · International Relations · Labor & Immigration
The primary elections in the United States has aroused interest all over the world. Peruvian blogs are not foreign to that interest and are concerned with the subject in many ways, such as simple references, casual commenting, analysis of the situation or just by reproducing things that have appeared on the web. In this post, Juan Arellano sums up some of the original content he was able to find online.
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Every 4 four years the Arab world just like the rest of the world begins to follow the American elections , of course we used to follow it only in its final stage not from the primaries like now as the rest of the world. We used to follow the American elections then due to the American role in th...
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Posted by
John Liebhardt
· 3:45 am
· Kenya · Nigeria · South Africa
Hillary Clinton's victorious comeback has sent shock waves through the African blogopshere. John Liebhardt reviews blogger reactions from Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa in this round up.
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Posted by
Amira Al Hussaini
· 7:31 pm
· Iraq · Qatar
"Be it Obama, McCain, or Clinton, they are ALL the same for me. Be it a black man, a white woman, or a yellow transvestite, I don’t care. I honestly don’t cuz at the end of the day, none of them can fix what's broken," says Iraqi blogger Neurotic Iraqi Wife. Fellow blogger Raed Jarrar sees a silver lining and says a third party might generate some hope for a political revolution in the US. Read the rest of this post to see what Iraqis and Arabs are saying about the elections.
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Posted by
Jillian York
· 4:11 pm
· Education · Government & Politics · Media & Internet
Although Voices without Votes aims to cover the international perspective on the U.S. elections, non-citizens aren't the only ones without a vote. American youth, that is, those under the voting age of 18, are also voteless - but not voiceless! Here is a smattering of what American youth (and their parents) have to say about the primaries, the candidates, and the upcoming nominations.
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All right, that's it...
I've been holding back, trying not to write about politics on this thing. Trying to stay open minded, trying to view all the candidates, not make any decisions yet. And I have, I must say. But there comes a time, when I just get completely freaking annoyed with the candid...
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Russia isn’t the only place holding a Presidential election in 2008, you know. The more eagle eyed amongst you may have spotted that there is a rather trivial contest currently taking place in America.
It’s Super Tuesday today in the US so, in the interests of making sure that all elections a...
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Posted by
John Liebhardt
· 7:13 pm
· Morocco · Nigeria · South Africa
Political campaigns – at least in the United States – take place in a bubble, sometimes far apart from reality. It’s not a completely fictitious world, this bubble. It looks and smells and feels a lot like the one we inhabit. Candidates speak the truth when they preach hope or ...
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Being South African, I am glad I do not have to choose among the GOP front runners. Mitt Romney, like Guiliani (before he dropped out), is a democrat in republican clothes; John McCain is weak on illegal immigrants and Pastor Huckabee is big on BIG government. If the conservatives, especially those ...
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