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So, does that make Obama Sauron?
By Mark Bahnisch on July 31, 2011
Titanic battles between good and evil are fantasies, and the debt ceiling crisis illustrates what can happen when the fantastic power of ideology prevails.
Posted in Disasters, Economics, Featured, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, debt ceiling crisis, GOP, ideology, libertarianism, neo-liberalism, Paul Krugman, Rand Paul, Republicans, roundtable, Tea Party, US politics | 72 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
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
Embedding the economy
By Mark Bahnisch on February 16, 2009
A lot of commentary in the US has focused on both the politics of Barack Obama’s stimulus package and on the TARP II bailout announced by Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner last week. In developments which somewhat parallel the Australian debate [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged actor network theory, barack obama, cultural economics, economic policy, economic sociology, Economics, epistemology, finance, fiscal policy, fiscal stimulus, Friedmanites, global financial crisis, Karl Polanyi, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Malcolm Turnbull, Milton Friedman, Republicans, Senate, social cartography, Sociology, Tim Geithner | 13 Responses
The politics of failed economic doctrines
By Mark Bahnisch on February 1, 2009
I’ve made the point before that real incomes in the United States have been more or less stagnant since 1974. It’s interesting to see John Quiggin dissect the reasons for this in the latest of his series of posts on [...]
Posted in Economics, International, Markets, Politics, USA | Tagged ALP, barack obama, class politics, global financial crisis, GOP, ideology, income inequality, John Quiggin, Kevin Rudd, Keynesianism, Labor, middle class, nate silver, neo-liberalism, political economy, Republicans, Rudd government, social democracy, stimulus, The Monthly, trickle down theory, USA Election 2008 | 24 Responses
Bill Ayers talks
By Kim on November 20, 2008
He was probably one of the most referenced names in the 2008 US election. But he deliberately chose not to comment on the linking of his name with Obama and “domestic terrorism”. Now Bill Ayers has given an interview to [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Media, Relationships, USA | Tagged barack obama, Bill Ayers, Culture Wars, GOP campaign, Republicans, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Weathermen | 98 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
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: 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
TARP watch: bailout FAILOUT
By tigtog on September 30, 2008
Vote count: Democrats: 141 Yea, 94 Nay Republican: 66 Yea, 132 Nay The Times – Analysis: bailout vote calls Hank Paulson’s bluff Negotiators had worked all weekend to accommodate some of the doubts of conservative Republicans who objected to such [...]
Posted in Disasters, Law, Markets, USA | Tagged bailout, corporate welfare, execs, financial sector, global economy, golden parachutes, hank paulson, meltdown, negotiators, outlay, Republicans, stock market, superficial changes, TARP, taxpayer funds, taxpayers, us treasury secretary, Wall Street | 108 Responses
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