October 31, 2008
According to the BBC's Dan Collyns, Peruvian shamen overwhelming support Barack Obama with only a few for John McCain:As the US presidential election nears, the shamans of Peru have been displaying their own methods for ensuring the success of their chosen candidate.Peru's shamen send US election vi...
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With less than a week ago to the big day, the polls are showing only a fractional narrowing in Barack Obama’s formidable lead. Such narrowing has been enough to move North Carolina to the John McCain column on my polling aggregates while making Indiana line-ball, but Obama is retaining his tig...
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Talking Points Memo reports that John McCain has sent a robocall to voters in his home State of Arizona. This part of the recording sounds like desperate stuff:If Democrats win full control of government, they will want to give civil rights to terrorists and talk unconditionally to dictators and sta...
go to article »October 29, 2008
There’s a perennial question thrown around by Australian and British politics-watchers (and, no-doubt, by people in lots of other countries too, but I’ve only lived in Australia and Britain): Why do American elections focus so much on the individual and so little on the proposed policies of ...
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Indiana apparently doesn't allow robocalls. So the McCain/Palin campaign asked a call centre to read out the latest smears. They underestimated the determination of the local workers . Three dozen walked out in protest. Still strength in unity. No wonder employers will do anything to make wildcat st...
go to article »October 28, 2008
October 27, 2008
I knew that robocalls had arrived in Australia. Nevertheless, when Prime Minister John Howard rang me before last year’s election I was startled by his voice at first. Because it was a recorded message, my colourful response was wasted.It’s the electronic age in political campaigning these days....
go to article »October 26, 2008
Part of a post by Ethan Zuckerman, at my heart's in accra, about Voices without Votes:Sick of the US election dominating all media coverage? Dreaming of a future date, perhaps two weeks away, when it’s possible that headlines won’t feature Sarah Palin?You could always turn to international news,...
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Since our previous episode we’ve had individual polls from red states Georgia and Montana showing Barack Obama narrowly in front, so they’re now included in the polling aggregates. However, John McCain leads in both due to the overall polling picture from the past few weeks. The other re...
go to article »October 24, 2008
You can customize this video from CNNBC and insert the name of the non-voter. Just click this link Obama's Loss Traced To....This has to be a not-too-subtle campaign tactic by the Democrats. Nightmares about Florida 2000. kwoff_id = 29320; ...
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