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November 1, 2008

The October Surprises

October has come and gone .. and bloggers are still asking what the highly anticipated October surprise could have been. Here are a few scenarios from bloggers from around the world.

ELECTION NIGHT EVENTS: Obama vs McCain (Around The Diaspora)

Aggregated from: Jamati

OBAMA vs McCain November 4th, 2008 THE GLOBAL PARTIES OF A LIFETIME obamavsmccain.jpeg With the 2008 US Presidential Elections - destined for history making, many are planning or will be attending events surrounding this electric night of stars and stripes. DURING ELECTION NIGHT ...

October 31, 2008

Chileno's Endorsement for President of the United States of America

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The world - and Chile is no exception - has an intense interest in the outcome of the 2008 US Presidential Election. Apart from the world's interest generated by crazed media coverage, there is a far greater interest at hand. It is the world's material interest in the strength of each candidate's...

Why My Vote Counts

Aggregated from: The Ivanov Report

In the state of Massachusetts, where I live, voting for Republicans and not voting at all is pretty much the same thing. The only intrigue of this year’s presidential election is whether Obama will beat McCain here by 60% to 40%, 70% to 30%, or 80% to 20%. Massachusetts is essentially ...

Only in Georgia…

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Matthew Collin posts this amusing photo (by Ana Iaseshvili) from Tbilisi which shows “Georgia's new Minister for Refugees making his preferences clear” in relation to the upcoming US presidential elections. While most people outside the US would prefer Barak Obama’s victory on 4 November, in G...

McCain for Georgia

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Outside the US, public opinion surveys suggest that most people would prefer a Barack Obama victory in the American presidential election. But Georgia is different - and it's not just because of John McCain's remarkable display of traditional dancing skills and wine-bibbing prowess when he visited t...

Open Letter to the US President Elect

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It is no secret to some of us Iraqis that passports and ID documents can be issued quickly from inside Iraq by bribery or by favoritism. And it is no secret that those responsible for issuing thousands of passports to non-Iraqis by our embassy in Sweden have returned to their original positions in t...

N Days/Hours Left

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An attentive reader of this blog may have noticed that the author has stopped writing regularly on the topic of the 2008 presidential campaign in America. This is mostly due to the fact that ‘The Russian Journal’, in its new format, has been less favorable to my column “Election Too” (http:/...

Its over McCain!

Aggregated from: AmPal - American Palestinian

Obama rally deep in the red state... Its over McCain, you ought to concede NOW!...

barack goes to bollywood

Aggregated from: Letters from Grenada

My beautiful, loving and faithful Macbook is out of commission at the moment. This is, in my personal little universe, a tragedy of epic proportions. I could blame it on the toddler, the one who (allegedly) dropped it. But, in truth, we can blame me, the mommy, who - had she not been insanely hun...