November 5, 2008
Tomorrow, the entire world waits for history to be made. For the first time in its 200+ years of independence, the United States of America could have an African American as president. It will be historical indeed as for the first time ever, a person of colour - a minority - will lead the most power...
go to article »November 4, 2008
There is a post-modern American presidential virus (I call it ArmGenDen-itis) that infects US Congressmen and President-elects immediately after their election victories – the criminal denial of the attempted Genocide of the Armenians in 1915 by the Ottoman elite of the Young Turks. When...
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As a world traveller who has lived overseas during the majority of George Bush's presidency, I like to think I have a unique perspective. I've seen how other countries, particularly in Africa and the Middle East, think of America. If people around the world were going to vote for the American pre...
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Normally during the course of a week we used to get around 70 - 90 volunteers a day coming in and making calls and helping out. Some for most of the day, some just for a few hours before the picked up kids from school or during lunch breaks from work. Over the weekend over 350 people came in each da...
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It’s very hard to get a grasp of the mood here in Cincinnati, just before polls open. The TV is still streaming plenty of attack ads from both sides and particularly for the local congressional races. There’s a McCain ad about Obama and his preacher - that seems to be McCain’...
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America is poised to make history. Go Vote. I still stand by my prediction from last week: I predict a national popular vote margin of 53.2% to 46.8% for Barack Obama. I predict an electoral college win of 375 to 163 for Barack Obama. Here are my state-by-state battleground predictions (leav...
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The hours are winding down to the final day of polling and the resolution of the long campaign of almost two years. It has been a grueling and exacting course for the candidates and their campaigns. They will I suspect be both pleased when it is over. Someone raised the question as to whether the...
go to article »November 3, 2008
If you’re reading this in America, you may want to take your video camera with you to the polls. Here’s why: “Video the Vote is a national initiative to protect voting rights by monitoring the electoral process. We organize citizen journalists—ordinary folks like you and me—to...
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Last Wednesday, I spent a full day with the wonderful folks in the main Obama campaign office in Minneapolis. Two sessions of phone canvassing and one round of door-knocking were squeezed into a productive and fascinating day. There was a steady stream of volunteers all day, coming in to help...
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