4 days ago by Malcolm Redfellow

Class and race in NYC The graphics in the New York Times are, in a favoured word of Malcolm's Brooklyn-born son-in-law, "awesome". So, today's effort, showing the distribution of votes in the City's Mayoral election, continues the standard of excellence. The legend to the piece reads: The Vote for M ...

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5 days ago by Sarah Smith

We are told that President Obama didn’t watch election night coverage last night of the bad results from Virginia, New Jersey and elsewhere. Instead he was apparently tuned to a two hour long HBO documentary about how he stormed to electoral triumph this time last year. I was watching it too – so wa ...

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7 days ago by J David Morgan

Once again it's the "Tuesday after the first Monday in November". The New York Times explained why that date had become "Election Day" in an article published on 1st November 1910 - " The State of New York in 1841 was the first to adopt "Tuesday after the first Monday in November" as its election da ...

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15 days ago by adamsmith1922

Over the weekend Adam read an interesting articcle in The Economist for the week of of 17 October on two gubernatorial races in the US. One in New Jersey and one in Virginia. The article is now behind the newly erected paywall, so if you do not have access a visit to the library might be required. A ...

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24 days ago by Malcolm Redfellow

A guaranteed emetic Following that previous posting about "world peace", here's some more on the same lines: I would like to extend warm birthday wishes to Margaret Thatcher today. Baroness Thatcher continues to remain a role model to many people, particularly women, around the world. Her career is ...

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96 days ago by andrea

What do I know about American politics? I’m just a mom from Canada. But was I mesmerized by the Presidential election this past year? ABSOLUTELY. Completely and utterly addicted – to the point that I didn’t argue when my kids said, “You like Obama better than us”. So, when Inauguration Day arrived, ...

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106 days ago by ganselmi

Right after the birth of the Iranian uprising, I repeatedly asked my readers to reach out to their elected officials at all levels of government to urge them to speak up for the Iranian peoples’ rights and against the regime’s merciless clampdown. Well it would have been disingenuous of me to do so ...

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111 days ago by Laci the Chinese Crested

The US is the only country in the world to elect its village idiot. Or is that idiots.

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115 days ago by Cristi de la rating-politic

Doua teme grele in America anilor 60. Amenintarea nucleara si razboiul din Vietnam. Dupa moartea lui Kennedy, la alegerile din 1964, ele s-au regasit conectate in acest clip electoral considerat ca unul din cele mai importante din istorie. Mai ales ca a fost difuzat o singura data, datorita duritati ...

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118 days ago by Malcolm Redfellow

Democracy should not be de-mocked Just when Malcolm was about to concede and give up this blogging lark for a better offer, along comes a heart-warming story, courtesy of the Washington Post: A last-minute write-in campaign to prevent a self-described Holocaust revisionist from serving on a civic bo ...

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