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Dion / Harper places quotations on any given subject from the two candidates side by side.
Michael Moore's Slacker 2004 presidential election.
I’ve always had mixed feelings about Michael Moore’s work. I liked Sicko, The Awful Truth and Bowling for Columbine, and I was ok with Fahrenheit 9/11.
2008
The Daily Colbert Report : November 13, 2008 : (11/13/08) Clip 1 of 4
5 nov 08 TV The Colbert Report : Indecision 2008: America's Choice : Clip 1 of 7 with Jon Stewart .
Ottawa Citizen 7 November 2008 Lessons for Republicans
This was always the Democrats' year to win -- and they did.
To be fair, if Democrats had lost, they wouldn't qualify as a political party. They had a scare in September when the McCain-Palin personal legends provided a domestic Surge, but the Democrats opened their coffers and kept their cool while the media (and the economy) hammered the Republicans.
Tuesday 04 November 2008 America votes in historic election
Monday 03 November 2008 The Campaign’s Last Laugh
Sunday 02 November 2008 US campaign nears final straight
With two days of campaigning left before the US chooses a new president, the two candidates undertake a final push for votes.
World Map votes Obama
Fri 7 Oct 2004 Joe the Plumber feels heat of political scrutiny
His full name is Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, but all the world knows him now as Joe the Plumber.
There's the little matter of a tradesman's licence
After Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama made him into the most famous plumber in the . ...Wurzelbacher was not a licensed member of their trade.
October 10, 2008 'Dumb democracy' is the fastest road to totalitarianism
Wed 01/10/2008 The First Presidential Debate
Interactive video and transcript Sept 26
• Election 2008: The two vice-presidential candidates, Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware and Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska, will go head-to-head Thursday evening in their first debate. Compare the candidates and see where they stand on key issues facing voters. Don't forget to watch the debate live on NYTimes.com Thursday at 9 p.m. E.S.T.
Thursday 02 October 2008 "Foreign policy: Obama vs. McCain" by David T. Jones
The sun will not set in the east on January 21, 2009 — and neither “President McCain” nor “President Obama” will dramatically reverse US foreign policy. The main elements of known challenges (Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel-Palestine and even Russia) are largely delineated; adjustments will be at the margins rather than at the core. David Jones, former senior diplomat at the US Embassy in Ottawa, suggests that both Senators McCain and Obama come to the fore dragging significant question marks that the arguments of “experience” versus “judgment” do little to resolve. Indeed, the major over-the-horizon challenges for the United States are likely to be yet-unknown unknowns — events that are currently beyond neat parameters of present political argument, but that will be defining for the next president. download article (PDF)
Saturday 27 September 2008 
No knockout
McCain may have won on foreign policy, but it was tight
Debate scorecard
How debates can swing elections
Viewpoints: US world image
US rivals spar in first TV debate
White House rivals John McCain and Barack Obama clash over foreign policy and the economy in their first head-to-head debate.
Tuesday 16 September 2008 Making America Stupid
Imagine for a minute that attending the Republican convention in St. Paul, sitting in a skybox overlooking the convention floor, were observers from Russia, Iran and Venezuela. And imagine for a minute what these observers would have been doing when Rudy Giuliani led the delegates in a chant of “drill, baby, drill!”
The Candidates Stump for National Service
(The Well / Cover Story)
President will surely take steps to help more Americans serve. But you don't have to wait that long to get started writes Richard Stengel
21 Ways to Serve America
(User's Guide)
A call goes out with 21 ways you can give back and pay it forward to current and future stewards of the country
Barack Obama: A Call to Service
(In Their Words)
John McCain: Inspiring Citizens to Do More
(In Their Words)
Keywords: convention, McCain, Bush, palin, RNC, Republican
Friday 05 September 2008 McCain vows to fight to change US
John McCain promises "change is coming" as he accepts the Republican party's candidacy for the White House.
Thursday 04 September 2008 Readers question McCain's judgment
At montrealgazette.com/soundoff, we asked if Governor Sarah Palin's political credibility was undermined...
Thursday, September 4, 2008 Palin takes slapshot at the media
Amid a raging political debate over her selection as John McCain's running mate and tabloid-intensity...
Republicans counterattack against 'sexism'
The McCain campaign launched a ferocious counter-attack against what they called "falsehoods and smears...
Wednesday 03 September 2008 Video: Inside the Republican National Convention
John Harwood discusses the news about Gov. Sarah Palin and previews the convention’s first full night.
Wednesday 03 September 2008 Senator John McCain, the presumed Republic candidate for president, says he is satisfied that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's background was properly checked out before she was named the Republican ticket as the vice-presidential candidate. Mr. McCain told reporters Tuesday that "the vetting process was completely thorough and I'm grateful for the results." Questions about the review came up after Ms. Palin disclosed that her unmarried teenage daughter Bristol is pregnant. Ms. Palin has also retained a lawyer to represent her in an investigation into the firing of the state public safety commissioner. The GOP revamped its plans at its nominating convention in Minnesota for the second straight day on Tuesday because of Hurricane Gustav, dropping former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's keynote speech. Speaking in his place were Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman and former Democratic Senator Fred Thompson. Mr. Giuliani is still scheduled to speak Wednesday or Thursday, although it's not clear if he will still be the day's keynote speaker.
What’s Fair in Love and Politics? /h2>
In most any political campaign, questions arise about certain details of a given candidate’s personal life. That discussion turns into a broader debate about what is and isn’t fair game. The pregnancy of Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s unwed teenage daughter sure seems like nobody’s damn business, but what does that say about the nominee’s staunch support of abstinence-only sex education? And what if — as The National’s Neil Macdonald, alone among the Big Seven today, gives credence to — those persistent Internet rumours that Palin faked her most recent pregnancy to cover up for that same daughter’s earlier pregnancy are true? The Big Seven can’t decide what’s off limits and what’s not, but they sure aren’t erring on the side of caution. It’s not sensationalism, necessarily, but we also don’t really need to know that young Bristol Palin’s boyfriend once posted on MySpace that he doesn’t want kids. The whole affair morphs into concerns about Republican presidential nominee John McCain’s vetting process in selecting his running mate — sufficient concern, apparently, for the Globe to justify four different articles on the subject. Memories of Thomas Eagleton, the Democratic VP pick for George McGovern in 1972 who resigned after revealing that he’d undergone electroshock treatment for depression, pop up in the Globe and La Presse.
That’s not the only comparison Palin conjures today. She’s “Dan Quayle in a dress,” as a Telegraph story in the Citizen quotes a detractor. Or maybe she’s “Chauncey Gardner in a skirt,” the Citizen’s Dan Gardner (not available online) writes, referring to Jerzy Kosinski’s novel Being There, about a well-meaning simpleton who rises to the presidency. But referring to Palin as an unfortunate male character in female attire fuels the suspicion that, just as media outlets sidelined Hillary Clinton during the Democratic primaries because of her gender, Palin is facing questions about her daughter’s pregnancy and her husband’s decades-old DUI simply because she’s a woman. Gardner’s unfortunate flippancy does a disservice to the rest of his piece, which points out how desperately rigid partisans hold on to the party line, even in the face of overwhelming opposing evidence. There’s no better example of this than a Citizen column by David Warren that, as it happens, faces Gardner’s. Warren writes: “I have yet to find a single instance, in Ms. Palin’s frontier background and extraordinary career — rising in politics as an enemy of posturing and corruption — of where she fails to be a symbol of America’s better angel.” Really? What about the $27 million in federal earmarks she landed as the mayor of a miniscule Alaskan town? What about the ongoing investigation into whether she tried to use her power as governor to fire an enemy? Her back-and-forth position on a “bridge to nowhere,” another pork-barrel project? And what of her alleged former membership in — and recent video pledging support for — an Alaskan secessionist party? The real casualties of the media’s focus on Bristol Palin’s pregnancy are the relevant questions to be asked about her mother’s political past. Palin isn’t anybody else in a skirt or a dress. She’s Sarah Palin, and she deserves fair but rigorous media scrutiny.
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Saturday 30 August 2008 Palin, an Outsider Who Charms
Her father shot the grizzly bear whose hide is now draped over the sofa in her office. She, too, hunts and fishes. She runs marathons. She delivered her fifth child during her first term as governor. They call her husband, the reigning champion in the annual Iron Dog snowmachine race, First Dude.
[our 1st reaction is No Thanks!]
McCain’s Baked Alaska
It is conceivable that some people will think John McCain picked Sarah Palin to be his running mate because she is a woman. I know you find this shocking, but I swear I have heard it mentioned.
Friday 29 August 2008 McCain picks female running mate
US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain has picked Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, as his surprise running mate.
Thursday 28 August 2008 In pictures: Democratic convention & more links
Monday 25 August 2008 DISTRACTED DEMOCRATS
The Post leads, the Globe fronts two articles, and CTV News, the Star (twice again), the Citizen (also twice) and La Presse (not available online) all go inside on the hoopla surrounding presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s coronation as the Democratic Party’s candidate in Denver, Colorado, this week. The Big Seven are salivating at the chance to heap coverage on the pre-election convention that is filled with juicy, sometimes inconsequential sideshows about Obama’s perceived elitism, what has been dubbed “The Clinton Question,” and what Michelle Obama is wearing. As the convention approaches, Canadian sources are increasingly skeptical of Obama’s performance on the stump. His summer lead against Republican nominee John McCain has evaporated, they say, and his nomination must fuel a huge bounce in the polls if he hopes to carry any momentum forward. The Post and the Citizen are critical of Michelle Obama’s speech to the convention, while the Star focuses on the over-the-top security that has enveloped the Mile High City. Although most sources are reporting that protest organizers are disappointed with the turnout and that there is little violence, CTV News reports almost sensationally that the few belligerent protesters are “blocking traffic, creating chaos.” CTV also provides by far the most bizarre pre-pre-game coverage. Reporter Tom Clark giggled when sit-in anchor Beverly Thomson asked him about the “winds of change” in Denver. She was referring not to Obama’s campaign message, but to a series of tornadoes that touched down outside the city, skirting major housing developments but causing almost no damage. Perhaps referring to the complexity of the convention, though it was awkwardly unclear, Clark closed his report by stating that “at least a tornado is a story we can understand.”
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Sunday Jul 27, 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain met Friday in Colorado with Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. After the meeting, Mr. McCain called on China to address concerns about human rights and to release prisoners detained during the recent uprising in Tibet. Mr. McCain also said that Beijing must engage in meaningful dialogue on genuine autonomy for Tibet. The uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet in March left more than 200 people dead. China blamed the Dalai Lama for fermenting the dissent, a charge he denies.
Saturday 21 June 2008 McCain backs Khadr's return
Senator John McCain says he would favour returning Toronto-born Omar Khadr to Canada from Guantanamo Bay if Prime Minister Stephen Harper requested it.
Campaign Conversations: Barack Obama
John Harwood of The New York Times and CNBC interviews Senator Barack Obama about gas prices, taxes, housing and other economic issues
OTTAWA: U.S. CANDIDATE DEFENDS FREE-TRADE PACT
Republican Sen. John McCain, in all likelihood his party presidential candidate, has rushed to the defence of his country's free-trade accord with Canada and Mexico. In an unusual foreign venture for a U.S. presidential candidate, he said before an audience of business leaders and policy makers that the idea of demanding unilateral changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement amounts to protectionism. The remark was an apparent shot at Sen. Barack Obama, the Democratic Party candidate, who has pledged that if elected the U.S. would demand the negotiation of stronger labour and environmental protection within the framework of NAFTA. For his part, Sen. McCain said that if elected he would honour his country's international commitments and expect others to do the same. Some voters in states like Ohio and Pennsylvania where manufacturing jobs have been lost blame NAFTA for that misfortune.
Wednesday 21 May 2008
One cannot look at the 2008 presidential race and not be reminded of 1976. Then, as now, a conservative surge seemed to have been broken on the rocks of a tired and scandal-ridden Republican Party, beset with domestic decline and a failed land war in Asia. One parallel that is often forgotten is the way in which persistent divisions within the Democratic Party, between its sometimes-arrogant leading political dynasty and the inexperienced upstart that pushed them to the margins, continually hampered the Democratic administration that came out of the Bicentennial election with such promise. The 1976 election put Jimmy Carter in the White House ahead of Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, who spent much of his time successfully harrying Carter, and whose unsuccessful 1980 primary challenge to the sitting president left the wounded Democrat to go down to defeat at the hands of Ronald Reagan.
This time around, of course, the Clintons are the affronted dynasts, Barack Obama the insurgent (coming from the antiwar left this time, and not from the pro-business right as Carter did), and Ted Kennedy now a revered elder statesman. The last surviving member of a tragic quartet of brothers, Kennedy faces his most difficult challenge yet. After a seizure over the weekend, he has been diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor in his left parietal lobe, and the prognosis for sufferers of glioma is not good. The news shocked colleagues for whom Kennedy formed part of the landscape; both of the broadcasts show the ailing West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, the only person alive who has served in the Senate longer than Kennedy, hunched over his desk and weeping in prayer for his old colleague. Kennedy’s surprise endorsement of Obama in February may turn out to have been his last hurrah. As one of the first establishment Democrats to endorse Obama over the Clintons, Kennedy’s endorsement speech set the family mantle upon the shoulders of the silver-tongued senator from Chicago and marked the decline of Hillary Clinton’s fortunes. Yesterday’s primaries in Kentucky and Oregon seem to have marked their nadir, as Obama has now captured a majority of elected Democratic delegates and is within seventy of the 2,026 delegates needed to clinch the nomination. Speaking in front of a huge American flag on a street in Iowa, Obama held back from explicitly claiming victory, out of respect for Kennedy and reluctance to alienate the die-hard Clinton supporters he will need to win in November’s general election. Clinton, for her part, is trumpeting her victory in Kentucky to raise doubts about Obama’s ability to win over working-class white voters, and her campaign team continues to suggest that procedural wrangling over the disputed Michigan and Florida primaries could still give her a majority of delegates or popular votes.
U.S. Primaries: West Virginia, Kentucky & Oregon a must read
West Virginia Primary May 6
Kentucky and Oregon Primaries May 20
Monday 19 May 2008 McCain and Obama Squabble Over Iran
John McCain said Barack Obama is downplaying the threat of Iran. Mr. Obama responded that the failed policies of President Bush have emboldened Iran.
Tuesday 15 April 2008
May the Bitter Candidate Win
Visit the all-new MediaScout.ca
Barack Obama has developed an innovative rhetorical style unlike anything else in North American politics. In his speeches, he combines risky novelties (such as an unprecedented frankness about his misbegotten youth) and a depth and complexity almost never seen in politicians these days (see, for example, his thorough, nearly hour-long speeches on race in America or religion in politics). Until recently, the presidential candidate navigated this new oratorical terrain mostly without error; the major controversies of his campaign had resulted from the mistakes, or at least the unfortunate views, of a staffer (in the case of “NAFTA-gate”) and a religious mentor. Or so it was until last week, when Obama made his now-notorious comments about “bitter” voters who “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.” John Ibbitson describes the quote in the Globe as a bad “stumble” and promises that Obama will “have to pay the price.” Certainly Hillary Clinton will do all she can to make sure that he does; since Obama’s comments went public on Friday, Clinton has tirelessly called attention to them, positing his words as an indication that he is “elitist” and “out of touch.” In response, Obama has criticized Clinton’s campaign for using holdover tactics from an unbecoming “old politics,” of taking his words out of context and mischaracterizing his views. The two candidates for the Democratic nomination for president appear to have entered a new phase of their protracted campaign, one in which personal barbs are at last permissible.
Richard Foot in the Citizen situates the candidates’ war of words in a history of political verbal insults, including some timeless epigrams from Winston Churchill (of a Labour rival: “A modest man, who has much to be modest about”) and Abraham Lincoln (of a political opponent: “He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know”). In comparison, Clinton’s claim that Obama is “out of touch” and Obama’s response that Clinton is “talking like she’s Annie Oakley” are mild and uninspired. For his part, the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain, is content to let Clinton do all the heavy mudslinging on this issue. His only contribution to the anti-Obama broadside has been to echo Clinton’s claim that the Illinois senator’s statements about small-town voters were “elitist.” With each candidate now making fundamental criticisms of the other, no one is benefiting more than McCain, who, without a Republican rival, can simply sit back and let the two Democrats damage each other in view of the American electorate. While Clinton and Obama might not be as funny as Churchill or Lincoln, the candidates’ exchange of epithets could have McCain laughing all the way to the White House.
Wednesday Mar 5, 2008 'Senator Hothead' carries scars of battle and politics
John McCain secured the Republican presidential nomination as the ultimate survivor - winning it eight
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Biography
Full Name: William Blaine Richardson III
Party: Democratic
Political Office: Governor of New Mexico; elected 2002; U.S. Representative from NM, 1983-1997
Business/Professional Experience: Staff, U.S. House of Representatives, 1971-72; Staff, U.S. Department of State, 1973-75; Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, 1975-78; Executive Director, NM Democratic Party, 1978; Executive Director, Bernalillo County Democratic Committee, 1978; President, Richardson Trade Group, 1978-82; U.S. Ambassador to U.N., 1997-98; Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy, 1998-2000; Senior Managing Director, Kissinger McLarty, Washington, 2001-2002
Date of Birth: Nov. 15, 1947
Place of Birth: Pasadena, Calif.
Education: B.A., Tufts University, 1970; M.A., Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1971
Spouse: Barbara Flavin; married 1972.
Children: None
Religion: Roman Catholic
Home: Santa Fe, N.M.
Campaign Web Site: richardsonforpresident.com
Friday 22 February 2008 This takes you to all posts on the U.S. presidential campaign
February 17, 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign — the Vice President? (National Post) Clinton, Obama a Democrat dream ticket? Maybe, maybe not
Sheldon Alberts, Canwest News Washington Correspondent
The idea that Clinton and Obama might team up to form a ‘dream ticket’ in the 2008 election has captivated pundits and party activists in recent weeks,
Political Cartoons
Friday 15 February 2008 Barack Obama rolled to victory by large margins in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia on Tuesday, extending his winning streak over Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to eight Democratic nominating contests. onmouseout="return nd();" target="_new" > Obama and McCain Sweep 3 Primaries
Thursday 14 February 2008 A Fight About What?
Except in this primary season. Yes, there has been some effort by Hillary Clinton and her supporters to sharpen the distinction with Barack Obama over the differences in the two candidates’ health care plans. And certainly many supporters of Senator Obama have pointed to his opposition to the Iraq war in 2002 as a key difference with Senator Clinton. But the first of these differences has gotten very little attention of late, and the latter is more often cited as a difference in judgment rather than a current policy difference: both candidates have similar positions about what to do in Iraq now.
Thursday Feb 14, 2008 a class="t2" href="http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/editorial/story.html?id=372f5996-3268-481d-9251-e808553f6cf1" onmouseover="return overlib('click to /montrealgazette/', LEFT);" onmouseout="return nd();" target="_new" > McCain has to prove credentials
Poor old John McCain. There's something almost pathetic about seeing a genuine war hero reduced to stumping around the United States trying to convince his countrymen that he is, indeed, a conservative.
Obama and McCain Sweep 3 Primaries February 13, 2008
Wednesday Feb 13, 2008 The Internet and YouTube have changed the face of politics
It was just a four-minute riff at the end of Barack Obama's concession speech on Jan. 8, the night he lost the New Hampshire primary to Hillary Clinton.
U.S. Primaries: Virginia, Maryland, Washington D.C.
A fantastically simple primary, with 63 winner-take-all delegates
Thursday 07 February 2008
So Super Tuesday is over—and while the Democrats now face a long mucky war between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, the Republicans seem finally to have plumped for John McCain. The independently minded Arizona senator could still be ousted, but that would require spectacular intervention by the Almighty on behalf of those who claim most often to be doing His work. We accept that Mr McCain is not a perfect nominee (and still a long way from being our choice for president); but we think the fact that the Republicans seem to have learnt from their mistakes enough to line up behind a
sensible candidate is an enormously positive sign for America—and for the world.
Here are some other pieces from this week's issue you might also be interested in. You can click straight through to each one and read it online at Economist.com
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DEMOCRATIC DEADLOCK
It’s a tricky dance to simultaneously claim glorious victory and
declare yourself the underdog, but both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama
are attempting to pull it off as they spin the results of Super Tuesday.
The
National, CTV
News, the
Globe, the Star,
La
Presse and the
Citizen all go inside with a look, mostly through Obama-tinted glasses,
at the results of Tuesday’s inconclusive vote. With the ballots
counted, Clinton is using her victories in California and the northeast to
argue that she has the strength to carry Democratic strongholds, while
Obama says his higher tallies of states and delegates make him the man
with a wide enough appeal to win the White House. Still, neither wants to
cede the possibility of being seen as the underdog because, as this race
has proven time and time again, everyone loves a comeback kid. There is a
real possibility that Clinton may succeed in this respect, as she reveals
that she had to lend her own campaign $5 million to keep it afloat until
the convention. Meanwhile, Obama is rolling in the dough—he took in
$35 million in January, more than twice as much as Clinton did. But the
Citizen’s Sheldon Alberts reminds us that money isn’t
everything; Clinton currently has the pivotal support of the bulk of
Democratic “super-delegates,” party insiders and lawmakers who
automatically get to cast a ballot. Increasingly, it seems that this will
all lead to a fractious convention that pits the party elite against the
grassroots—a bad way to start a race for the presidency. In fact, as
former presidential hopeful Howard Dean points out in the Post, divided
Democratic conventions tend to be followed shortly by general election
defeats.
Meanwhile, across the field, John McCain has all but clinched the
Republican nomination—and the ire of social conservatives. Tim
Harper in the Star writes that McCain’s ascendancy may mean the
end of the “dittohead” era—that is, the dominance of
Rush Limbaugh and his ilk. Chided for his supposedly fuzzy positions on
global warming and illegal immigration, McCain will now likely have to
spend much of the remaining race borrowing from a Molson commercial,
assuring the Republican base that “I am conservative.”
At least one Canadian source, the Globe, pats
McCain on the back in an editorial for not pandering to the
extreme right, while noting that by our standards he’s as
conservative as they come.
Thursday 07 February 2008 Romney Drops Out of Presidential Race
By JOHN SULLIVAN and MICHAEL LUO
Mitt Romney, who sought to position himself as the true conservative choice for the Republican nomination, announced Thursday that he had ended his campaign.
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who sought to position himself as the true conservative choice for the Republican presidential nomination, announced Thursday afternoon that he had ended his campaign.
His chief rival, Senator John McCain of Arizona, congratulated Mr. Romney on his efforts and reached out to conservative voters who had thrown their support to the former governor and whose support, Mr. McCain said, was “indispensable to the success of our party.”
The first (and maybe most decisive) ...
Wednesday Feb 6, 2008 Clinton and Obama split vote
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battled to a split decision in Super Tuesday primaries across the United...
Wednesday Feb 6, 2008 McCain inches closer to securing nomination
Senator John McCain inched closer to securing the Republican presidential nomination last night, scoring..
Wednesday Feb 6, 2008 Big changes coming after U.S. election, Charest says
Premier Jean Charest says he is paying close attention to the U.S. presidential race, predicting a 180...
Tuesday 05 February 2008 Voices From the Polls
Tuesday 05 February 2008 US Super Tuesday votes under way
Voters in 24 US states choose their candidates for the presidency in the Super Tuesday nominating contests.
Tuesday Feb 5, 2008
52 per cent of Democratic delegates and 41 per cent of Republican delegates are at stake.
For your reading pleasure there is much more at: U.S. Primaries: Super Tuesday and U.S. Presidential Campaign: views and reviews
Tuesday Feb 5, 2008 Some questions for the American presidential candidates
America's bizarre presidential primary system has again done its job well and produced four strong candidates for president. They might be whittled down to two by midnight tonight, once this Super Tuesday's ballots are cast. Still, each candidate has weaknesses. Watching the debates - which, Canadian debate planners take note, are more cordial when the candidates are sitting down, close to each other - you hanker to ask a few questions yourself.
Tuesday Feb 5, 2008 History
The phrase "Super Tuesday" has been used to refer to presidential primary elections since at least 1984
A Super Tuesday showdown in 24 states
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voters in 24 states make their choices in an unpredictable U.S. presidential campaign on Tuesday, with Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in a close fight and Republican John McCain aiming for a knockout blow against Mitt Romney.
Monday Feb 4, 2008 World is watching U.S. race
As the New York Times recently stated, it's as if outsiders are pining as much for change in the United...
Saturday Feb 2, 2008 Latest crop of presidential hopefuls look like they came from central casting
This is the start of a super week in the United States - and I don't mean just tomorrow's Super Bowl...
Edwards to quit White House race
Democrat John Edwards is to leave the White House race after failing to win a contest, his aides say.
href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3326255.stm"> Profile: John Edwards
Webb blog: A tricky decision
Tuesday 29 January 2008 Acrimony Reigns in G.O.P. on Eve of Florida Vote
By JOHN M. BRODER and MICHAEL LUO
Mitt Romney and John McCain traded attacks in a state that could produce a Republican front-runner before a virtual national primary next week.
TAMPA, Fla. — The Republican contest for Florida ended in acrimony on Monday as the two leading candidates traded attacks, aggressively courting voters across the Florida peninsula in a primary battle that could produce a clear front-runner for the party’s presidential nomination before a virtual national primary next week.
The sparring, between Mitt Romney and Senator John McCain of Arizona, came as polls showed the race a statistical tie between them, with Rudolph W. Giuliani and Mike Huckabee, former governor of Arkansas, lagging. Mr. Giuliani, former New York mayor, pledged that he would participate in a Republican presidential debate in California on Wednesday regardless of where he finished in Tuesday’s voting here.
Campaigning in the South slide show
January 28, 2008 When Bill Clinton was president, he and his wife sailed with the Kennedys off Cape Cod. In this 1997 outing, the former president is at the helm, Hillary Rodham Clinton is second from left and Senator Edward M. Kennedy is to her right.
Kennedy Chooses Obama, Spurning Plea by Clintons | Hillary Clinton
Monday 28 January 2008 Races Entering Complex Phase Over Delegates
MIAMI — The presidential campaign is entering a new phase as Democratic and Republican candidates move beyond state-by-state competition and into a potentially protracted scramble for delegates Congressional district by Congressional district.
For Republicans, this means, for example, turning to approximately 10 heavily Democratic Congressional districts in California where there are relatively few registered Republicans, making it easier, and less expensive, to win a district and its three delegates. Both Senator John McCain of Arizona and Mr. Romney are heading there on Wednesday.
For Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Mr. Obama, it means investing resources — mailings, telephone banks and candidate visits — in Congressional districts where there are an odd number of delegates at stake, creating an opportunity to pick up an extra delegate.
Sunday 27 January 2008 Win fires up Obama supporters' belief
lots of links
Sunday Jan 27, 2008 Obama victory Triumphs over Clinton in S. Carolina's Democratic presidential primary Obama calls his win a rejection of race-based politics that seeped into the campaign.
Saturday 26 January 2008 U.S. Primaries: South Carolina 2008 great pages on Diana's site
Barack Obama Wins South Carolina Primary
Excerpt of Senator Obama’s victory speech:
I did not travel around this state over the last year and see a white South Carolina or a black South Carolina. I saw South Carolina. I saw crumbling schools that are stealing the future of black children and white children. I saw shuttered mills and homes for sale that once belonged to Americans from all walks of life, and men and women of every color and creed who serve together, and fight together, and bleed together under the same proud flag. I saw what America is, and I believe in what this country can be.
That is the country I see. That is the country you see. But now it is up to us to help the entire nation embrace this vision. Because in the end, we are not just up against the ingrained and destructive habits of Washington, we are also struggling against our own doubts, our own fears, and our own cynicism. The change we seek has always required great struggle and sacrifice. And so this is a battle in our own hearts and minds about what kind of country we want and how hard we’re willing to work for it.
So let me remind you tonight that change will not be easy. That change will take time. There will be setbacks, and false starts, and sometimes we will make mistakes. But as hard as it may seem, we cannot lose hope. Because there are people all across this country who are counting us; who can’t afford another four years without health care or good schools or decent wages because our leaders couldn’t come together and get it done.
Theirs are the stories and voices we carry on from South Carolina.
Republican Fred Thompson withdraws from the US presidential race, after poor results in early ballots.
Monday 21 January 2008 Primary Season Election Results
Thursday 17 January 2008 Bloomberg Warns of Spending Cuts on the Horizon
In his State of the City address, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg also called for DNA samples to be taken from every person arrested in New York City.
Thursday 17 January 2008 Mitt Romney scored his first major presidential primary victory Tuesday in his native Michigan. The win sets the stage for a wide-open Republican showdown in South Carolina in just four days. Mr. Romney was the third Republican victor in the first four states to vote in the 2008 primary season. He defeated Arizona Senator John McCain, who won the state in 2000. Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee placed third. Mr. Romney won about 39 per cent support, Mr. McCain had 30 per cent and Mr. Huckabee had 16 per cent. Meanwhile, Hillary Rodham Clinton was the Democratic winner in Michigan, but it was a victory of little consequence. Ms. Clinton was the Democrats' only major candidate entered in a state where party officials defied the Democratic National Committee by holding the primary so early in the campaign season. Ms. Clinton's main competition was from the "uncommitted" line on the ballot, an option that some supporters of John Edwards and Barack Obama advocated to embarrass the former first lady.
Wednesday 16 January 2008 Democrats set aside race dispute
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama seek to set aside a row over civil rights in their fight for the US Democratic ticket.
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Romney's Michigan comeback
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After winning silver in Iowa and New Hampshire, Mitt Romney finally got a gold in Michigan. It was a win he desperately needed.
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Mitt Romney has struck gold in his home state
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There were growing questions as to whether he could sustain his campaign without a victory here. This, after all, was his "home state".
His father served as Michigan's governor for three terms. Mitt Romney claimed that the state was in his "DNA", that the automobile industry - that was once the engine of the economy - was "in his blood".
The Romney campaign had invested high hopes - and a lot of money in Michigan - and it finally paid off.
Wednesday 16 January 2008 The candidates for the leadership of their respective parties are now heading to the northern state of New Hampshire for the next (primary) contest, Tuesday, on the road to the presidency. In Iowa, Thursday, the first round in a series of caucuses and primaries went to Barack Obama for the Democratic Party and to Mike Huckabee for the Republican Party. Mr. Obama is vying to become the first African American president. He handed a stinging defeat to national front-runner Hillary Clinton. She finished second in a virtual tie with John Edwards. Republican Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister turned politician, finished almost ten points ahead of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney.
Monday 14 January 2008 A spat between the Democrats
The Democratic nomination process sours as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton spar over race
Wed1350 The U.S. presidential primaries continue to fascinate (we read that Europeans are watching with interest and we know that the British media are following avidly); and the more unpredictable, the more we shall watch and attempt to record the better informed (or more outrageous) commentaries - “U.S. primaries 2008“. U.S. Race 2008
While few of us are hazarding guesses as to outcomes, one early Wednesday Night punter hypothesizes: “If McCain can derail Huckabee in N.H.and Obama continues to win, McCain (fatherly, presidential looking) might take it. If it turns out to be Clinton vs. McCain after all, I would bet on Clinton. My most likely scenario is still Obama vs. Huckabee.”
Thursday 10 January 2008 American presidential races are always fascinating: this one, however, is exceptional. Like many magazines and newspapers, we had expected to put Barack Obama on our cover after the New Hampshire primary. Instead Hillary Clinton staged a remarkable comeback—and the Republicans have found new hope with John McCain, who consistently beats both the leading Democrats in head-to-head polls. Why is the race so open? It is partly because each candidate has such obvious flaws; but it is also because America is undecided. The voters want change; they just can't work out what sort of
change.
Biography
Full Name: William Blaine Richardson III
Party: Democratic
Political Office: Governor of New Mexico; elected 2002; U.S. Representative from NM, 1983-1997
Business/Professional Experience: Staff, U.S. House of Representatives, 1971-72; Staff, U.S. Department of State, 1973-75; Staff, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee, 1975-78; Executive Director, NM Democratic Party, 1978; Executive Director, Bernalillo County Democratic Committee, 1978; President, Richardson Trade Group, 1978-82; U.S. Ambassador to U.N., 1997-98; Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy, 1998-2000; Senior Managing Director, Kissinger McLarty, Washington, 2001-2002
Date of Birth: Nov. 15, 1947
Education: B.A., Tufts University, 1970; M.A., Tufts' Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 1971
Spouse: Barbara Flavin; married 1972.
Children: None
Religion: Roman Catholic
Home: Santa Fe, N.M.
Campaign Web Site: richardsonforpresident.com
Biography
Full Name: John Sidney McCain III
Party: Republican
Political Office: U.S. Senator from Arizona, elected 1986; reelected 1992, 1998, 2004; U.S. Representative from AZ, 1983-1987
Military Service: Pilot, U.S. Navy 1958-1981, retiring as captain; POW in Vietnam, 1967-1973
Date of Birth: August 29, 1936
Place of Birth: Panama Canal Zone
Education: B.S., United States Naval Academy, 1958; grad., the National War College, 1974
Spouse: married (2d) Cindy Hensley, 1980
Children: adopted sons Douglas and Andrew of first wife, Carol (m. 1965; div. 1980); daughter Sidney (with wife Carol), born 1980; daughters Meghan and Bridget (born and adopted, 1991); sons John IV and James
Religion: Episcopalian
Home: Phoenix, AZ
Campaign Web Site: www.johnmccain.com
Tuesday 08 January 2008 MANCHESTER: CANADIAN HEALTH CARE MAKES US DEBATE
Canada's public health-care system came under criticism in Manchester, New Hampshire during a debate involving the candidates for the US Republican presidential nomination on Saturday. Rudy Giuliani, who favours the US system of private insurance while denouncing universal public health-care, asked if the US "goes in the direction of socialized medicine, where will Canadians come for health-care?" The ex-New York City mayor was referring to those Canadians who go to the US for medical treatment to avoid long waiting lists in Canada. Mr. Giuliani said poor Americans who don't have health-care should receive vouchers so they can get coverage. Candidate John McCain told the debate some people in New Hampshire have been to neighbouring Canada, adding he doesn't think they want the Canadian system of public health-care. Candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination favour universal health-care, saying it would cover the estimated 45 million Americans who don't have health insurance.
Tuesday 08 January 2008 Energy Costs a Top Concern for New Hampshire Voters
HILLSBOROUGH, N.H. — People here treasure their rugged surroundings and relative isolation in the hills of southwestern New Hampshire. They welcome winter, and consider their distance from urban sprawl a clear advantage.
ALL EYES ON NEW HAMPSHIRE
by Daniel Casey
January 7, 2008
All throughout 2007, the Canadian media paid only intermittent
attention to the US presidential contest as the US media devoted more and
more resources to it. With an astonishingly large crop of competitive
Republican and Democratic candidates, dozens of televised debates, and the
din of thousands of bloggers, the campaigns have generated an unprecedented
volume of coverage south of the border. Now, after Democrat Barack Obama
upset Hillary Clinton and Republican Mike Huckabee trounced Mitt Romney in
last week’s Iowa caucuses—where the first votes are
traditionally cast in the long process by which the major parties pick
their candidates—the Canadian media have woken up to the titanic
struggle, and started to devote serious efforts to covering the contest as
it turns to the New Hampshire primary. And they’re enjoying it,
perceptibly reveling in the scale and sway of it all.
With the stories on offer, who could blame them? Barack Obama’s
stunning rise from obscure state senator to household name was sparked by
a rousing speech delivered to the 2004 Democratic convention, and he now
seems poised to ride a wave of passionate support from young people and
political independents to be the first black person to capture a major
party’s nomination. The Star calls it “Obama
fever,” while CTV News calls it “Obamarama”
on last night’s broadcast, hopefully for the last time, and the
Globe’s Doug Saunders reports that the ascendancy of the unlikely
candidate has come
to fascinate the European media. After months of relying on the support
of key Democratic fundraisers and power brokers to put her over the top,
Hillary Clinton has been forced to highlight her experience and raise
doubts about Obama, as she did during a testy exchange in Saturday’s
debate that the Post calls
“confrontational” and that the Globe contrasts
with the even more heated Republican matchup. La Presse’s Richard
Hétu profiles the sudden slump
in Clinton’s fortunes as she faces defeat in another primary, and
finds
out the hard way that New Hampshire voters consider their
straightforward open primary—and not Iowa’s elaborate
caucuses—the first real vote in the nation. Alexandre Sirois joins
the reliable Hétu in providing a
look at the excitement that suddenly surrounds the resurgent and
eternally irascible Republican John McCain. Christie
Blatchford agrees in the Globe that McCain is “riding some kind
of wave of his own,” and is amazed by the openness and
approachability of old-fashioned retail campaigning. It’s high drama
all around; Star columnist Chantal Hébert
surveys our own meager political conflicts, compares them to the epic
contest being waged in the US, and decides that Canadian politics just
“can’t compete.”
2007
Wed1347 What if Iowa Settles Nothing for Democrats?
DES MOINES - Iowa is packed with presidential candidates and hundreds of campaign aides, advisers and contributors. Twenty-five hundred representatives of news organizations have been granted credentials to cover the caucuses Thursday night, twice as many as in 2004. Rarely has a political event been so intensely anticipated as a decisive moment, at least on the Democratic side. But what if it is not decisive?
The New York Times coverage of the candidates and issues is well worth bookmarking.
Anyone who shares our distrust of Rudy Giuliani as the Republican presidential candidate must read the piece on his business dealings in the December issue of Vanity Fair
Bloomberg for President? Now this is fun - much more fun than the slate for either party and is even attracting attention abroad Bloomberg tempted by open race for the US presidency as well as at home
Sunday 09 December 2007 Mitt’s No J.F.K.
You’d think Catholics, who watched with trepidation as J.F.K. battled prejudice, would be sympathetic to Mitt Romney.
Sunday Oct 21, 2007 Religious Right Divides Its Vote at US Summit
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 — After an earnest appeal for acceptance from Rudolph W. Giuliani, Christian conservatives ended their two-day summit here Saturday still divided about which of the Republican presidential candidates to marshal their collective might behind.
Mitt Romney edged out Mike Huckabee in the straw poll at the Values Voter Summit. But questions were raised about the way the voting was conducted — votes were permitted to be cast online as far back as August — and even top leaders said there did not appear to be any consensus. “I don’t think the question is anywhere close to settled,” said Gary L. Bauer, an influential Christian conservative leader and former Republican candidate himself in 2000. “I think it’s going to play out over the next several months.” Out of 5,775 votes cast, Mr. Romney won 27.6 percent; Mr. Huckabee, 27.1 percent; Ron Paul, 15 percent; Fred D. Thompson, 9.8 percent. Mr. Giuliani finished second to last, with less than 2 percent of the vote, and Senator John McCain of Arizona finished last among the nine candidates
Monday 30 July 2007 Barack Obama has still got work to do
IT WAS a surreal affair. The first debate among Democratic presidential candidates to be sanctioned by the party’s national committee was co-hosted by CNN and YouTube and let the public submit questions as video-clips.
Monday 30 July 2007
The Democrats held another debate. In an unusual format, the candidates took questions from video clips sent to YouTube, which co-hosted the event. Hillary Clinton was thought to have won. The only heated moment came when she disagreed with Barack Obama's position on talking to the leaders of hostile countries. See article
George Bush issued an executive order, required by legislation passed last October, setting out the legal boundaries of CIA interrogations. The order complies in broad terms with the Geneva Conventions' ban against “degrading treatment”. Human-rights groups criticised it for its lack of detail about actual interrogation techniques.
Monday 16 July 2007 Interactive Feature: The Money Race
Search the presidential candidates' reports from the second-quarter by donor name, employer, and ZIP code.
Monday 09 July 2007 HOW does a treasure chest boost a politician's odds of getting nominated as a presidential candidate? Barack Obama did well in fundraising in the second quarter of the year, comfortably beating Hillary Clinton
Monday 23 April 2007 AP Presidential candidates to debate in cyberspace
NEW YORK — The 2008 presidential contenders may soon be slugging it out in cyberspace, with pioneering online-only debates being planned for early next fall, a new media partnership says.
The political blog Huffington Post, online portal Yahoo and Slate Magazine will host the debates — one for Democratic candidates, one for Republicans — sometime after Labour Day, with PBS host Charlie Rose serving as moderator, the sponsors planned to announce Monday.
Thursday 18 January 2007
Barack Obama took his first formal step towards running for president by forming an exploratory committee. The senator from Illinois, who has held his seat for two years, is considered a front-runner for the Democratic nomination along with a certain senator from New York who is expected to make her intentions known (officially) soon. See article
Why Barack Obama Could Be The Next PresidentIt is 9 A.M. on a fresh, sunny Saturday in Rockford, Ill., and nearly a thousand people have gathered in the gymnasium at Rock Valley College to participate in a town meeting with their Senator, Barack Obama. It is an astonishingly large crowd for a beautiful Saturday morning, but Obama--whose new book, The Audacity of Hope, is excerpted starting on page 52--has become an American political phenomenon in what seems about a nanosecond, and the folks are giddy with anticipation. "We know he's got the charisma," says Bertha McEwing, who has lived in Rockford for more than 50 years. "We want to know if he's got the brains." Just then there is a ripple through the crowd, then gasps, cheers and applause as Obama lopes into the gym with a casual, knees-y stride. "Missed ya," he says, moving to the microphone, and he continues greeting people over raucous applause. "Tired of Washington."
Thursday 09 November 2006 Bush impeachment off table
With Democrats seizing control of the House of Representatives in this week's mid-term elections, California Rep. Nancy Pelosi is poised to become the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives and third in line to the presidency.
Wednesday, 8 November 2006,
Democrats seize control of House
Democrats have won control of the US House of Representatives in mid-term polls, and are one seat away from gaining a majority in the Senate.
The Democrats won the Senate seat in Montana after a delayed neck-and-neck vote count was completed.
maisonneuve.org THE MIND OF THE AMERICAN VOTER
by Ceri Au
November 8, 2006
The US mid-term elections unfolded in a blaze of multi-million
dollar advertising campaigns and concluded with e-voting
glitches reminiscent of the 2000 hanging-chad debacle. And despite voluntary
legal experts across the country fielding calls about voting
irregularities, the votes were finally tallied and American discontent was
registered for the history books. But although the Democrats took control
of the House of Representatives for the first time twelve years,
yesterday’s election was more than a mere referendum on George Bush’s
presidency and his Iraq policy. The American electorate alsOWN to the
polls to make their voices heard on a smorgasbord of contentious social
policy issues. According to the
Globe, a total of 205 measures were on the ballots in thirty-seven
different states. They ranged from the quirky—such as an Arizona
initiative, ultimately approved, to combat voter apathy by randomly
selecting one voter for a $1 million pay-day—to the high-profile,
including a proposal to hike tobacco taxes in California. La Presse
(not available online) meanwhile reports that tight races on banning gay
marriage and abortion were closely watched as weathervanes of support for
the conservative, “American values” ideology. Six states in all voted on
gay-marriage issues, most notably in Tennessee where 81 percent of
electors opted to trounce an amendment supporting same-sex couples. Yet
despite heavy lobbying by religious organizations, many conservative
proposals failed to pass in even the most traditional of states. A
proposed ban on abortions was defeated in South Dakota, much to the relief
of pro-choice activists who feared a conservative tide sweeping the
Midwest. Propositions to increase minimum wage were also on the slate in
several states, and received high-approval levels across the board. But
the results of these various plebiscites were given short shrift by a
media hungry to announce wins and losses by big-name candidates. American
Author Robert Byrne once wrote “Democracy is being allowed to vote for the
candidate you dislike least.” In the end, the state-level social policy
proposals may not be as exciting as the champagne-popping, hand-pumping
victories of House and Senate races. But they are indicative of the mood
of American society, and MediaScout encourages the Big Seven to refocus
their coverage in the days to
come.
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THE
LEADS:
THE NATIONAL: High
Stakes: US voters go to the polls with Iraq on their minds
CTV
NEWS: America
Votes: The winners, the losers and what it means for Canada
GLOBE
AND MAIL: The
Democrats are back
TORONTO STAR: Angry
voters punish Bush
NATIONAL POST: Democrats
take House
LA PRESSE: Bush
under surveillance
OTTAWA CITIZEN: America
speaks
THE STRAIGHT GOODS:
Democrats take
control of the House of Representatives after a twelve-year absence, while
the balance of power in the Senate hinges on recounts. Justice Minister Vic
Toews announces that increasing minimum sentences for gun-related crimes
will cost taxpayers $246 million. Hockey commentator Don Cherry heads to
Parliament Hill and gets a taste of his own
medicine.
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NOW
COMES THE HARD PART…
The Big Seven all lead with the Democratic
victories south of the border that ended the Republican party’s monopoly of
Capitol Hill. Taking
back the House of Representatives for the first time in twelve years,
the Democrats increased their seat count by 27, giving them a firm grasp
of the lower house. In the Senate, however, close races in Virginia and
Montana may necessitate vote recounts before any party can claim victory.
With a new balance of power in Washington, the Big Seven trudge through
the numeric results and all take a stab at predicting how the next two
years of American politics will unfold. In the
Post, David Frum argues the future of the Democrats hinges on their
ability to handle national security issues. Fielding more Iraq war
veterans as candidates than the Republicans, the Democrats wanted to
change the nature of the debate on Iraq by bolstering their credibility on
the issue. Yet now in office, the Democrats must find a way to channel
popular support into international clout. As Tom Clarke pointed out on CTV
News last night, the Democrats relied heavily on “anti-Bush” mantras,
while their own solution to US involvement in Iraq has yet to crystallize.
Alan Freeman writes in the
Globe that the plight now facing Democrats is finding an antidote to
the “cut and run” salvos favored by President Bush. But according to the
Star, the two parties will spend the next two years focused not on
current affairs, but on the next big race—the 2008 US presidential
election campaign. Recent figures from the Washington Post suggest
Republican John McCain will be a front-runner once again, having clocked
in at 346 events during the campaign and raising some $10.5 million for
his party, garnering endless political favors as a result. On the Democrat
side, Illinois Senator Barack Obama made the national rounds and apparently
even outstripped the ever-popular Bill Clinton as the most sought after
political-celeb on the campaign trail.
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