*Makes Homer Simpson drooling noise*
It’s Boxing Day. So? TV, of course.
On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, fiscal conservatism from Joker Giu-li-a-ni.
By now most people will have seen the ‘YouTube hit’ music video “In Love With Obama”. Well this one’s even better, and it’s called “Obama Girl Vs Giuliani Girl”.
Meanwhile, […]

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Well, it’s almost Christmas Day, so I think it’s best if we don’t bombard you with information from all sides. Not least because the biggest election issue at the moment seems to be whether there is a subliminal crucifix in Mike Huckabee’s Christmas video message.
No, this is the time of year for cranking the central […]

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Part of the reason we are doing this trip NOW, for THIS election, is that it’s the closest and most exciting primary race in decades. Precedents and predictions are crumbling like a giant political stock cube. Received wisdom is being returned to sender, unopened.
The only certainty that existed during this autumn’s phoney war was Hillary […]

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Our name has confused a few people already. So what does it mean? “My fellow Americans” is a phrase commonly used as the opening of a Presidential address. It has great symbolic resonance – enshrining the idealised American version of democracy, where the President is but one of many equal citizens.
Here’s Gerald Ford addressing his […]

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With less than three weeks left until the Iowa caucus on 3 January (and a whopping 46 weeks until the actual election itself in November) the candidates on both sides are desperately jockeying for position. If you can lock up Iowa and New Hampshire, you get the much-vaunted ‘big mo’(mentum), which may sound silly, but […]

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