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Category Archives: US Presidential Elections 2012
For First Time – Obama below the Magic 270
Electoral College:Obama 263 versus Romney 240 (Tied 35 Florida and Iowa) based on polls as at 9th June. Senate: Democrats 51 Republicans 47 (2 toss-ups) One of the oldest rules of politics is that office transmutes the basest metal into gold … Continue reading
Latest on USA Elections
Electoral College: Obama 289 versus Romney 243 (Tied 6) basied on polls as at 1st June. Senate: Democrats 50 Republicans 48 (2 toss-ups) The state polls indicate that the gap is closing between Obama and Romney as his victory … Continue reading
Tides & Times
Tides & Times: The US election analysis continues…. There is a tide in the affairs of men.Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such … Continue reading
This week’s latest review of the course of the US Election…..
Illinois, Romney wins decisively; Santorum wins as decisively in Louisiana Mitt Romney won a decisive victory in the Illinois Primary last night….taking some 47% of the vote.Last night Rick Santorum took almost 505 of the vote in the Louisian Primary.. For more on … Continue reading
Letters to America
These will now appear in their own section….I think I’ll wait out South Carolina Primary before I put up the next one…though the debates have turned against Romney the polls continue to favour him….
Letter to America….. III after New Hampshire
Letter to America New Hampshire has spoken…. And, as the American Indians in the Westerns of my childhood used to say, this predominantly white, middle class and unrepresentative state spoke with forked tongue. Mitt Romney did as well as the … Continue reading
Letter to America
Letter to America II…After Iowa…. The aftermath of the caucuses in Iowa has led Michelle Bachmann…darling of the mad hatters of the Tea Party movement…to withdraw from the Presidential election… Her withdrawal speech invoked God so many times I lost … Continue reading
Letter to America — a commentary on the 2012 US elections from the UK
The US elections of 2012 Letter to America I was in my fourth year of secondary school when in the snows of New Hampshire in March 1968 Lyndon Johnson almost lost the Democratic Party Primary to Senator Eugene McCarthy…the rest … Continue reading