Democrats
US election: Obama wins – The audacity of hope…
By Kim on November 5, 2008
It’s all over, red rover, and Barack Obama, with 200 electoral votes in the bag and enough in the bag to come from the West Coast and Midwest to come, has won the presidential election. Lots of interesting stuff still [...]
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged barack obama, Democratic Party, Democrats, economic policy, election results, electoral college, FDR, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, henry paulson, presidential transition, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 127 Responses
US election: The Senate – race towards 60 Democratic seats?
By Kim on November 4, 2008
A sign of a campaign in trouble is normally the plea to make sure the winner doesn’t win too big. In the Australian context, we’ve often had the “send a message” ploy from Oppositions in state elections – Premier X [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Polls, USA | Tagged Bernie Sanders, Congress, Democrats, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Libertarian party, Mark Warner, Nancy Pelosi, Republicans, Senate, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 6 Responses
US election: What to expect and what to watch
By Kim on November 3, 2008
I’ll be updating this post as we get closer to Wednesday, but it’s worth making a few points at the outset: Exit Polls: Take these with a grain of salt. In the states which allow early voting, almost 30 million [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Polls, USA | Tagged barack obama, Blue states, Democrats, electoral college, electoral math, electoral predictions, GOP, John McCain, Polls, Red states, Republicans, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 41 Responses
The Reds are coming!
By Mark Bahnisch on October 27, 2008
I’m not sure if I’m the only one who found the juxtaposition on the news last night of discussion of global regulation at a meeting between Chinese and EU leaders and George W. Bush’s “free markets are great!” remarks rather [...]
Posted in China, Developing world, Economics, Europe, Foreign Elections, Health, International, Markets, Polls, Sociology | Tagged alan greenspan, Barack Obabama, Bretton Woods II, business cycles, Capitalism, Democrats, economic policy, Economics, efficient markets hypothesis, financial markets, George W. Bush, global financial crisis, GOP, healthcare, ideology, John McCain, John Quiggin, Keynesianism, neo-liberalism, regulation, socialism, Sociology, sociology of knowledge, taxes, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 27 Responses
Bring back Bill Clinton (the last dog isn't dead yet)
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 | 24 Responses
McCain: Gaming the media and the blogosphere
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 | 129 Responses
Cheap shots from the last presidential race that are largely missing from this one
By tigtog on September 4, 2008
Names in the quote below have been updated to reflect the personalities engaged in the current election: Rabbi Smuley Boteach, World Net Daily, May 25, 2004: Now, having a wife who provides you with a private jet and eight multimillion-dollar [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Relationships, USA | Tagged cheap shots, Cindy Lou Hensley, Democrats, gigolo, John Kerry, John McCain, prenuptial agreement, Replublicans, sarah palin, Teresa Heinz, US 2008 election | 25 Responses
The Life of Palin or health care and justice and climate change and stuff
By Kim on September 3, 2008
As a bit of a follow up to the discussion on this post of the familial scandals confected or exploited about GOP Vice-Presidential nominee and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, here’s two excellent and thought provoking pieces. First, Feminist Philosophers asks [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Climate change, Culture, Economics, Ethics, Feminism, Foreign Elections, Health, Media, Parenting, Poverty, Sociology, USA, Women | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Blogging, blogosphere, Bristol Palin, celebrity politics, civic republicanism, Daily Kos, deliberation, deliberative democracy, democracy, Democratic Party, Democrats, Feminism, feminist blogging, GOP, John McCain, Naomi Wolf, netroots, online public sphere, political blogging, political scandals, public sphere, Rebecca Traister, Republican party, sarah palin, social justice, US election 2008, veep, vice-presidential candidate | 248 Responses
Poor fella my country!
By Kim on August 27, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/michelle-obama.jpg" I’m afraid I can’t agree with Michael Tomasky: Michelle Obama should have laid the schmaltz on even thicker than she did last night. It’s all very well to talk about her and Barack Obama’s working class origins, but [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections | Tagged american election 2008, barack obama, Democratic National Convention, Democratic Party, Democrats, John McCain, Michelle Obama, US election 2008 | 32 Responses
Recent Comments