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By Kim on October 8, 2008
Here they go again! Televised, streamed, etc. in all the usual places. Comment and link as you will. Recycling of partisan talking points strongly discouraged. A couple of discussion starters – Nate Silver: Are John McCain’s negative attacks succeeding in [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections, Polls | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Blogging, blogosphere, debate, John McCain, negative campaigning, polling, Polls, presidential debates, sarah palin, second debate, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on October 4, 2008
Jennifer Schuessler at the New York Times has been boosting the “turn the Veep debate into a poetry slam” movement. Two poems selected from her Paper Cuts blog post: Haiku’s not the form For Senator Joe Biden Because the last [...]
Posted in Culture, Foreign Elections, Language, Levity, Media, Politics, USA | Tagged american election 2008, comic verse, haiku, Joe Biden, light verse, palindrome, poetry, poetry slam, political debates, political verse, sarah palin, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Veep debate, vice presidential debate, Writings |
By Kim on October 3, 2008
As everyone probably knows, the Veep debate will be televised live at 11am AEST on both ABC1 and SBS (which also has live streaming online if you’re not near a tv). Any links to liveblogging of the debate appreciated. Context [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections, Media, USA | Tagged american election 2008, debate liveblogging, Joe Biden, political debates, sarah palin, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Veep debate, vice presidential debate |
By Kim on September 27, 2008
Joe Conason has a devastating critique on McCain’s “bipartisan” “here to help” “campaign suspended” play at Salon: His attempts to game this dangerous situation, his waffling between bipartisanship and ideological rigidity, his shiftiness on the real issues and his obvious [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged american election 2008, bailout plan, barack obama, financial markets, John McCain, presidential debates, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Kim on September 26, 2008
It only gets more surreal. You can read about the latest at Crooks & Liars and Firedoglake. None of this is about the economy. It’s about rescuing McCain’s campaign, not Wall Street. But reportedly McCain’s “help” comes down to supporting [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged american election 2008, financial markets, GOP, henry paulson, John Boehmer, John McCain, Paulson bailout, Republicans, TARP, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Kim on September 25, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/bill_clinton.jpeg" align=left I’m going to go out on a limb here. Bill Clinton is the only genuine political talent that creaking heap of donkeys, the beloved Democratic Party, has produced in an age. Damn that Twenty-Second Amendment. Obama plays [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, Bush administration, Democratic Party, Democrats, financial crisis, financial markets, GOP, Henry Farrell, henry paulson, John McCain, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street |
By Kim on September 11, 2008
As a bit of a follow up to Mark’s post on the latest travails of the Democratic campaign, here’s a link to a very interesting article which includes interviews with both Obama and McCain’s campaign managers. My take? Obama (and [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, sarah palin, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 10, 2008
Although aspects of his critique are tentatively sketched by his own admission, Jay Rosen has hit more nails than he’s missed with his analysis of the significance of the Sarah Palin veep selection by the McCain campaign. Rosen’s article is [...]
Posted in Blogging, Ethics, Foreign Elections, Media, Polls, Sociology, USA, Women | Tagged Alaska, american election 2008, Andrew Perrin, barack obama, blogosphere, bridge to nowhere, cultural studies, Culture Wars, Democrats, earmarks, electoral behaviour, Gary Kamiya, George W. Bush, GOP, Jay Rosen, John McCain, Karl Rove, netroots, political blogging, political sociology, political strategy, Polls, Republicans, sarah palin, Sociology, sociology of media, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on September 9, 2008
With the news that John McCain has now hit 50% in the Gallup poll, opening up a 4 point lead over Barack Obama, I thought it might be worth mentioning a few cautions about interpreting both American polls and the [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Polls, USA | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Democratic Party, economic policy, GOP, John McCain, polling, Polls, Republican party, sarah palin, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Mercurius on September 4, 2008
…could John McCain have selected for his running-mate a mid-40s former small-town mayor and State Governor for 20 months, loudly insist such a person is the best available Republican VP – and avoid gales of laughter and general ridicule? Why [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged american election 2008, GOP, Republican National Convention, Republican party, sarah palin, US election 2008, veep, vice-presidential candidate |
By Mark Bahnisch on September 4, 2008
I was going to write a post last night about the demos in Minneapolis during the Republican National Convention and the extraordinary levels of repression and police violence, but tiredness got the better of me. But never mind, tigtog’s been [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Foreign Elections, Media, Photography, USA | Tagged american election 2008, blogosphere, citizen journalism, civil liberties, freedom of speech, Glenn Greenwald, GOP, Lindsay Beyerstein, photojournalism, police violence, political blogging, poor people's march, protest march, protests, Republican National Convention, state repression, US election 2008 |
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