USA Election 2008
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
In your gut, you know he's nuts
By Kim on November 19, 2008
The darling of the libertarians, Ron Paul, (and to be fair there were some lefties who flirted with his candidacy too) has come out of the closet post-election as a New World Order conspiracy theorist – World Government is Obama’s [...]
Posted in USA | Tagged barack obama, conspiracy theories, libertarians, Republican party, Ron Paul, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 41 Responses
Truthiness versus Truth
By Kim on November 13, 2008
The fiercely independent thinking RWDBs of the Australian media and blogosphere have been out and about reciting talking points from the discredited Republican Noise machine ever since Barack Obama won the Presidency last week. For the life of me, I [...]
Posted in Australiana, Blogging, Foreign Elections, Media, USA | Tagged barack obama, Congress, Democrats, election results, faith based community, global financial crisis, GOP, noise machine, Proposition 8, reality based community, talking points, truth, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, wingnuts | 83 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 election: The hangover!
By Kim on November 6, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/3005940172_cc138e1d96.jpg" Photo of the Obama event in Chicago courtesy of bcbeatty – licenced under Creative Commons. So, since there was so much discussion before election day of where folks were going to meet up to watch the count in [...]
Posted in Foreign Elections, Life, USA | Tagged barack obama, celebration, election night, election results, event, party, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 28 Responses
Meanwhile, back in Australia
By Mark Bahnisch on November 6, 2008
I didn’t get a chance to link to this post during the American campaign, but I thought that Scott’s piece at Grodscorp on why a lot of Australians get into American elections with so much fervour was a top class [...]
Posted in Activism, Australiana, Economics, Federal Elections, Foreign Elections, Media, USA | Tagged Malcolm Turnbull, mid year economic outlook, US election 2008, USA Election 2008, Wayne Swan | 56 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: Yes we can!
By Mark Bahnisch on November 6, 2008
<img src="http://larvatusprodeo.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/3004965364_03e56ac41f.jpg" Image of spontaneous street celebrations in Harlem courtesy of matt semel at flickr – reproduced under a Creative Commons licence. No doubt one of the big stories about the US election will be the influence of the blogosphere [...]
Posted in Activism, Blogging, Elections, Foreign Elections, Media, Polls, Sociology, Technology, USA | Tagged Activism, Blogging, blogosphere, citizen journalism, Media, netroots, online media, participatory democracy, political blogging, political sociology, psephology, punditariat, Sociology, sociology of media, Technology, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 16 Responses
Guest Post by Miriam Lyons: What does an Obama win mean for Australia?
By Guest Poster on November 5, 2008
Director of the Centre for Policy Development Miriam Lyons writes: Barack Obama’s victory represents a watershed in American history, but it will also have ramifications around the world. Before I head out to celebrate I thought I’d just bash out [...]
Posted in Australiana, Climate change, Developing world, Economics, Environment, Foreign Elections, Foreign policy, Government, Immigration, International, Markets, Policy, Politics, Sociology, USA | Tagged Afghanistan, aid, Australian implications, barack obama, behavioural economics, center for american progress, Climate change, copenhagen negotiations, CPD, Democrats, economic policy, Foreign policy, Garnaut, green jobs, green Keynesianism, international development, john podesta, Miriam Lyons, multilateralism, public policy, think tanks, UN, US election 2008, USA Election 2008 | 12 Responses
US election: End of the Bush era
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 | 58 Responses
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