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By Mark Bahnisch on November 5, 2008
There’s been a lot of discussion over the last few weeks about whether today’s vote would signal the end of the Reagan era. That discussion had two interlinked referents – the combination of militarism and small government rhetoric (if not [...]
Posted in Climate change, Culture, Economics, Foreign Elections, Poverty, Science, Sociology, USA | Tagged barack obama, Bush era, election results, electoral college, electoral realignment, George W. Bush, neo-cons, neo-conservatism, neo-liberalism, political sociology, Reagan era, Ronald Reagan, Sociology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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 |
By Kim on November 5, 2008
Gobama! We seem to be getting a lot of 503 errors, which must mean either increased traffic on our server or the intertubes staggering under the weight of US election traffic generally. But here’s a widget from MSNBC which should [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections, Notices, USA | Tagged blogosphere, election coverage, election day, election results, electoral college, liveblogging, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
By Kim on November 5, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/vote7.jpg" I’d contemplated liveblogging the results, but then I thought I’d like to sit back and enjoy watching them! In any case, I suspect this will be the most liveblogged event in history, so there will no doubt be [...]
Posted in Blogging, Foreign Elections, USA | Tagged blogosphere, election results, liveblogging, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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 |
By Kim on November 4, 2008
Some US states which were influenced by the Progressive direct democracy movement in the early years of last century (which also saw direct elections to the US Senate and the beginnings of the presidential primary) have “propositions” as part of [...]
Posted in Activism, Foreign Elections, Lesbian and Gay, Sexuality, USA | Tagged 8against8, Arnold Schwarzenegger, ballot iniatives, ballot measures, blogosphere, california, civil rights, Culture Wars, direct democracy, Haviland, L Word, lesbian and gay rights, netroots, Proposition 8, propositions, referenda, Riese, same sex marriage, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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