November 16, 2008
Last Tuesday, Barack Obama won clear majorities in both the electoral college and the popular vote. Their divergence in 2000 remains an aberration in American political history; remarkably, the parties' support in different states is distributed in such a way that the winner of the popular vote ...
go to article »November 14, 2008
In the first segment of a multi-part exchange, KA Dilday reminds Anthony Barnett of how Barack Obama's rise is very un-European. Read on: part II, part III, and part IV. Dear Anthony: It's been several months since I told you that Barack Obama's nomination as the presidential can...
go to article »November 8, 2008
November 7, 2008
In the wake of Obama's victory, KA Dilday begins to digest an unprecedented result. Catch up with the earlier segments of her conversation wtih Anthony Barnett: part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4. Dear Anthony: From the moment the news was announced at about 4 am in London, and I heard ...
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As the world erupts into euphoria over the ascension of Barack Obama, a black man, into the white house, the issue of race in American society becomes more glaring than before: What does Obama presidency mean to the minority population living in the U.S? While the ascent of Obama to the pinnacle of...
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Much has been written on this year's election campaigns. Especially the Obama campaign has set new standards in many respects and all over the globe politicians, strategic advisors and spin doctors are trying to figure out how to make use of the success that President-Elect Obama had with his t...
go to article »November 6, 2008
Dennis highlights the success of California's Proposition 8, which amends the state constitution to ban gay marriage. This was a bitter note in Tuesday's results, made all the more so by evidence that the surge in African-American turnout carried the proposition to victory. Gay rights acti...
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On 29 July 2008, President George W Bush appeared at the Lincoln Electric Company in Euclid, Ohio, where he spoke about energy and then asked the audience for questions. The opportunity for people in a small town in the midwest to pose a question directly to the president of the United States is ...
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Why are we here and what is this micro-recorder doing, one of you asked on the way in. The reason I decided to invite you is that it seems we have spent most of the last two years obsessing about the United States presidential election. Now it's approaching its climax, and afterwards everything...
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