Since my family almost single-handedly support Apple, any reference to the legendary 1984 advert made by Ridley Scott was going to catch my eye. Doubtless everyone reading this will have seen the already-infamous YouTube ‘mash-up’ of said advert, this time with a political message – the jarring ‘Vote Different’ (and this is the point where [...]
Filed under: barackobama, election2008, hillaryclinton, uspolitics on March 21st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I had all these grand plans to actually post about something vaguely concerned with British politics…and then I was distracted by the Oscars (as I inevitably am every year, despite how much I claim I don’t care who wins) and the accompanying media diarrhoea about Al Gore.
Don’t get me wrong; I am a huge admirer [...]
Filed under: election2008, uspolitics on March 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Rudy Giuliani, ahead in the polls for several weeks, has now overtaken John McCain as the favourite for the Republican presidential nomination. The time lag between the shift in the polling numbers and the adjustment of the odds is intriguing. Part of the explanation must be the fact that - as we’ve discussed previously - [...]
Filed under: election2008, foreignpolicy, rudyriuliani, uspolitics on March 1st, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Well, Al Gore got his Oscar (If he won the Nobel too he’d be only the second person - after George Bernard Shaw - to win both). He also teased the audience by pretending to announce his candicacy for 2008 in a skit with Leonardo DiCaprio. The betting markets in his winning the Democratic nomination [...]
Filed under: election2008, uspolitics on February 26th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It’s every politician and journalist’s favourite phrase, it seems (googling ‘political blame game’ gave me “about 1,610,000″)…and also favourite occupation to indulge in, officially or not. Aside from the fact it’s a nice-sounding phrase (or was, until it became so clichéd it made me want to smash my TV to bits with a croquet mallet [...]
Filed under: election2008, iraq, uspolitics on February 24th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I’m ashamed to admit it, but the thing I find most intriguing about Mitt Romney is his name. I assumed ‘Mitt’ must be short for something (it’s his middle name, by the way – don’t you think ‘Willard Romney’ would sound a tad more distinguished?), and according to Wikipedia that part of his name comes [...]
Filed under: election2008, uspolitics on February 15th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
One of our readers suggests that Rudy Giuliani has nothing to fear from the religious right, because his social liberalism will allow him to tap into the libertarian right. I’m not sure this is true. This report suggests that Giuliani is going to have difficulties, particularly with his views on abortion. The crucial point:
Of those [...]
Filed under: abortion, election2008, rudyriuliani, uspolitics on February 12th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Here it is, the long-promised Giuliani post (and you’ll notice that I’m capable of spelling his name, which is more than I can say for a lot of people – is that a problem for a future President? Answers on a postcard/otherwise known as the comments field…). He’s actually declared now, and is running as [...]
Filed under: election2008, uspolitics on February 11th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
This is very interesting. Apparently several senior Republicans are now talking of a Hillary presidency as “virtually inevitable”. This will be news to a lot of people, not least the betting markets, which still put her chances at around 25%.
Now if Bill were allowed to run, a President Clinton might well seem the inevitable result. [...]
Filed under: election2008, uspolitics on February 7th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
I confess that I am not one of the real Clare Politics bloggers, but having seen Liz’s West Wing reference in the previous posy, I couldn’t resist. The West Wing has occasionally been dismissed as a liberal fantasy: how likely are we to have a Nobel Laureate Democrat with a serious chance of winning the [...]
Filed under: election2008, uspolitics on February 4th, 2007 | 4 Comments »
