John McCain
Unsurprised schadenfreude
By tigtog on November 11, 2008
Remember all that McCain campaign rhetoric about how Obama’s August 2007 statement on the need for sporadic pursuits of Al Qaeda into Pakistan without prior diplomatic notice showed that he was an irresponsible loon who should never be commander-in-chief? (and [...]
Posted in Afghanistan, Ethics, Imperialism, Law, Nationalism, Terrorism, USA | Tagged barack obama, George W. Bush, incursions, IOKIYAR, John McCain, musharraf, pakistan, special forces | 112 Responses
Obama: The predictability of right wing predictions?
By Kim on November 10, 2008
We’ve heard all this before. Remember when Kevin Rudd won, and we were told his election was a victory for John Howard? Right wing commentators couldn’t have been quicker out of the starting blocks to proclaim “America is still a [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Media, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, conservatives, Democratic Party, demographics, electoral analysis, GOP, John McCain, liberals, realignment, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 104 Responses
US elections: Prediction thread
By Kim on November 4, 2008
>2008 Election Contest: Pick Your President – Predict the winner of the 2008 presidential election. This is fun! You can make your own electoral map to illustrate your predicted result at The Washington Post. I’m not sure if embedding will [...]
Posted in Elections, USA | Tagged barack obama, election results, electoral college, electoral college map, John McCain, Pick Your President, prediction map, predictions, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Washington Post | 11 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
Exit Nixonland, stage left?
By Mark Bahnisch on October 30, 2008
Writing in Salon, Gary Kamiya describes the near hysteria to which “movement conservatives” are reduced in confronting a likely Obama victory: …typical of the Limbaugh-inflected (or infected) movement as a whole is the apocalyptic attitude of right-wing columnist Mark Steyn, [...]
Posted in Culture, Economics, Feminism, Foreign Elections, History, Media, Polls, Poverty, Race, Religion, Sociology, The Web, USA | Tagged American history, American politics, Andrew Cockburn, arthur schlesinger, barack obama, blogosphere, Book review, cable television, Culture Wars, evangelicals, FDR, Fox news, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Gary Kamiya, John McCain, nixonland, religion and politics, religious right, Richard Nixon, rick perlstein, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 43 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
Stephen Colbert sums up the McCain campaign
By Kim on October 26, 2008
[Via Crooks & Liars where you can watch the video.] I for one appreciate the McCain campaign treating us like children. McCain will bring us back to a simpler time. A time when you could identify your neighbors’ jobs by [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Levity | Tagged Colbert Report, Joe the Plumber, John McCain, Stephen Colbert, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 21 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
Pennsylvania McCain's saviour: What's with that?
By Kim on October 23, 2008
It’s getting pretty difficult based on the current state of the polls for John McCain to map out a strategy for electoral college victory, with all the Kerry states looking pretty good for Obama and the Democrats looking competitive in [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Race, USA | Tagged barack obama, Blue states, Bradley effect, Bush states, electoral college, electoral college strategy, electoral math, John McCain, Kerry states, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania strategy, Red states, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 13 Responses
US election – White House done, but there's more
By Robert Merkel on October 23, 2008
Well, it seems that the Republican National Committee thinks so. Essentially, they’ve stopped using their money to pay for John McCain’s campaign ads. Why? Because there are a whole bunch of other elections on US election day, and some of [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged barack obama, downticket races, jerrymander, John McCain, redistricting, us congressional elections, US House of Representatives, us presidential elections, US Senate | 23 Responses
US election: links post
By Kim on November 4, 2008
Excitement, or maybe nerves, is building: I’ll admit it. I just can’t concentrate. How many times can I check 538, pollster, or real clear politics? Hundreds of times a day. I arrived at my office at 8AM with the best [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections, Polls, Religion, Sociology, USA | Tagged analysis, barack obama, blogosphere, Bradley effect, Christopher Shays, commentary, John McCain, links post, New England, sarah palin, South, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 25 Responses