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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
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
More on Nixonland; of cultural politics and culture wars
By Mark Bahnisch on November 3, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/richard-nixon.jpg" In a previous post on expectations of whether an Obama win will reshape politics and end the culture wars, I briefly discussed Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, which I read recently. The title, incidentally, comes from a passage in a [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Culture, Foreign Elections, History, Howardia, USA | Tagged Adlai Stevenson, American history, American Political Science Association, barack obama, Crooked Timber, cultural politics, Culture Wars, David Greenberg, GOP, Henry Farrell, John Howard, John Kenneth Galbraith, Kevin Rudd, Maxine McKew, Nixon's Shadow, nixonland, political science, rick perlstein, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 35 Responses
Those shifty Ayrab eyebrows
By Kim on October 31, 2008
Not the Sarah Palin campaign… or???
Posted in Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign Elections, Levity, Race, USA | Tagged GOP, political satire, Republican party, sarah palin, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 5 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
Palin forever?
By Kim on October 24, 2008
I’m not sure what it is about the dynamic of this campaign, but I haven’t turned my mind to what will happen to the GOP if the McCain/Palin ticket loses. I’m not sure all that many others have either, outside [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged 2008 USA election, 2012 US election, 2012 USA election, barack obama, blogosphere, conservative movement, GOP, John McCain, Republican party, sarah palin | 58 Responses
Rational or "values" voting?
By Kim on October 21, 2008
Gary Sauer-Thompson has a really good point to make about the way that Colin Powell has justified his decision to endorse Barack Obama: Colin Powell’s endorsement of Barack Obama on Meet the Press was based on a form of public [...]
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Foreign Elections, Media, Race, Religion, USA | Tagged barack obama, colin powell, Culture Wars, endorsement, GOP, John McCain, Lincoln Chaffee, moderate republicans, negative campaigning, Republican party, Susan Eisenhower, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 10 Responses
The good, the Maverick and the ugly: dispatches from the Straight Talk Express
By Kim on October 13, 2008
With less than a month to go til America votes, barring any more mad game changing moves or even an October Surprise from Osama Bin Laden or the tattered remains of the Bush administration, all the smart money is on [...]
Posted in Activism, Culture, Film, TV, Video etc, Foreign Elections, Nationalism, Race, USA | Tagged barack obama, base, Culture Wars, economic crisis, financial crisis, GOP, hate speech, hate talk express, John McCain, Lindsay Beyerstein, macaca moment, maverick, Peter Martin, Republican National Committee, RNC, sarah palin, us economy, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, youtube | 70 Responses
House Republicans – quote of the week – it's Dostoevsky, stupid!
By Kim on October 3, 2008
Timothy Garton Ash, writing in The Guardian, has picked it:
Posted in Economics, Levity, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged American politics, credit crisis, financial markets, GOP, House Republicans, TARP, Thaddeus McCotter, us economy, Wall Street | 14 Responses
Welcome to the Palindrome!
By Kim on October 1, 2008
[I'm borrowing the pun from Michael Bérubé] In the absence of any more “game changing” impulsive madness from Walnuts, all eyes will probably be on the Veeps debate on Friday – although our friends in the House Republicans or more [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged Culture Wars, debates, financial markets, GOP, John McCain, mainstream media, Michael Bérubé, Paulson bailout, political strategy, postmodern politics, Rebecca Traister, sarah palin, TARP, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, vice presidential debate, Wall Street | 83 Responses
Playground politics
By Kim on September 30, 2008
The Nancy Pelosi speech that made the Republicans cry: Context in this post about the Congressional rejection of TARP.
Posted in Economics, Foreign Elections, Markets, USA | Tagged Bush administration, credit crisis, financial markets, George W. Bush, GOP, henry paulson, House Democrats, House Republicans, Nancy Pelosi, Paulson bailout, TARP, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wall Street | 18 Responses
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