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Is Wilkie key to the end game?

By Kim on September 1, 2010

Over at Club Troppo, James Farrell thinks that Andrew Wilkie may be the key to the resolution of the negotiations over who will form government. I’m not so sure. I suspect Wilkie will end up supporting neither side. Whether or [...]

Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged andrew wilkie, brian harradine, Democrats, end game, Ethics, Federal Election 2010, hung parliament, Independents, James Farrell, negotiations, The Greens, whistle blowers | 43 Responses

Senate group preference tickets released by AEC

By Mark Bahnisch on August 1, 2010

The AEC has released the Senate group preference tickets online. For those who might not be aware of how this works, if you vote “above the line” (that is, if you put a 1 in one of the parties’ or [...]

Posted in federal election 2010 | Tagged AEC, ALP, Democrats, Family First, Federal Election 2010, greens, group preference tickets, liberals, preferences, Senate, Steve Fielding, Victoria | 15 Responses

Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat lost: The politics of anti-politics

By Mark Bahnisch on January 20, 2010

News is just coming in that Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat in Massachusetts has been lost by the Democrat, Martha Coakley, to the Republicans’ Scott Brown. FiveThirtyEight.Com has the margin at 52-47 and that blog will be well worth watching for [...]

Posted in Culture, Foreign Elections, Politics, USA | Tagged anti-politics, barack obama, David Hirst, Democrats, filibuster, GFC, living standards, Main Street, Martha Coakley, Massachussetts, nate silver, Republicans, Scott Brown, Senate, special election, super majority, Ted Kennedy, unemployment, US politics, Wall Street | 88 Responses

Obama, healthcare and social democracy

By Mark Bahnisch on August 18, 2009

Reports that Barack Obama is prepared to concede the public option in the health care bill (with some perhaps vague hope that it might be reinserted in a conference between the House and Senate on reconciling inconsistent provisions) expose the [...]

Posted in Health, Medicine, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged American politics, barack obama, death panels, Democrats, health insurance, healthcare, ideology, life chances, public option, Robert Reich, social democracy, social inequality, Sociology, structural inequality, us congress | 126 Responses

The spectre of Specter

By Kim on May 5, 2009

Game changing. Displays the irrelevance of the GOP. Tea bag parties inspired by Fox News and all that crew coincide with a drop in partisan identification to 25% of the electorate. Etc. Certainly, the party swap of Pennsylvania Senator Arlen [...]

Posted in Feminism, Media, Politics, Polls, USA, Women | Tagged American politics, Arlen Specter, barack obama, Clarence Thomas, Democrats, Feminism, GOP, left, Pennsylvania, progressivism, Republicans, tea bag parties, USA, Women | 15 Responses

What comes after the Democrats? (And "new" Labor?)

By Mark Bahnisch on January 30, 2009

In an earlier post riffing off the Katherine Wilson hoax on Keith Windschuttle and Quadrant, I made some comments about the absence of any real political force representing small l Liberalism, to the consternation of some commenters on the ensuing [...]

Posted in Activism, Politics, Sociology | Tagged Activism, ALP, Deakinite, Democrats, Katherine Wilson, Labor, Norman Abjorensen, political parties, political sociology, Quadrant, small l liberalism, Third Way, UK Labour | 32 Responses

The Obama inauguration: some interesting links

By Mark Bahnisch on January 21, 2009

There’s probably literally millions of reactions to Barack Obama’s inauguration on the intertubes today, so I wanted to try to highlight some more specific articles and posts which raise some interesting issues which might otherwise get lost in the crowd. [...]

Posted in Climate change, Economics, Foreign policy, International, Markets, Middle East, Palestine, Politics, The Web, USA, War | Tagged America, Australia, barack obama, Christine Milne, Climate change, commentary, coverage, Democrats, economic policy, fiscal stimulus, Gaza, global finance, global financial crisis, global politics, globalisation, inaugural address, inauguration, Keynes, Keynesianism, Middle East, post-partisan politics, reactions, regulation, rhetoric, us economy, US politics, War, world politics | 8 Responses

Truthiness versus Truth II: Now with graphs!

By Mark Bahnisch on November 18, 2008

More on the instant revisionism from the Republican Noise Machine in the wake of Barack Obama and the Democrats’ victory – this time scatterplot and red state blue state rich state poor state make a graphic point about the claims [...]

Posted in Foreign Elections, Sociology, USA | Tagged 2006 US election, 2008 USA election, American politics, barack obama, Congress, Democrats, GOP, house, noise machine, political science, psephology, Republicans, talking points | 6 Responses

Truthiness versus Truth

By Kim on November 13, 2008

The fiercely independent thinking RWDBs of the Australian media and blogosphere have been out and about reciting talking points from the discredited Republican Noise machine ever since Barack Obama won the Presidency last week. For the life of me, I [...]

Posted in Australiana, Blogging, Foreign Elections, Media, USA | Tagged barack obama, Congress, Democrats, election results, faith based community, global financial crisis, GOP, noise machine, Proposition 8, reality based community, talking points, truth, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, wingnuts | 83 Responses

US election: the demographics

By Mark Bahnisch on November 6, 2008

The big note of caution should be that this data is drawn from exit polls which don’t take into account the very large early vote, and that exit polls have certain problems of validity and reliability. However, there’s some interesting [...]

Posted in Culture, Foreign Elections, Polls, Race, Religion, Sociology, USA | Tagged African-American vote, barack obama, Culture Wars, Democrats, demographics, electoral college, electoral map, exit polls, GOP, partisan realignment, political sociology, psephological analysis, psephology, realignment, regional vote, Republicans, turnout, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, vote composition, youth vote | 22 Responses

Guest Post by Miriam Lyons: What does an Obama win mean for Australia?

By Guest Poster on November 5, 2008

Director of the Centre for Policy Development Miriam Lyons writes: Barack Obama’s victory represents a watershed in American history, but it will also have ramifications around the world. Before I head out to celebrate I thought I’d just bash out [...]

Posted in Australiana, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, Foreign Elections, Foreign policy, Government, Immigration, International, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Afghanistan, aid, Australian implications, barack obama, behavioural economics, center for american progress, Climate change, copenhagen negotiations, CPD, Democrats, economic policy, Foreign policy, Garnaut, green jobs, green Keynesianism, international development, john podesta, Miriam Lyons, multilateralism, public policy, think tanks, UN, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 12 Responses

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