He didn’t bother campaigning, and it turns out he didn’t have to. Unlike the 2008 election in the US, the Russian election to succeed Vladimir Putin held no suspense or drama. Putin’s endorsement was enough for Dmitry Medvedev to win an easy election. Frankly, if Putin had endorsed my dog Riley, he […]
It is rather silly to compare, as some have done, Barack Obama to Abraham Lincoln. But it is fair to compare their means of assent in the nomination process. How is Obama on the cusp of defeating the party establishment? This is not the first time an upstart candidate came out of nowhere to win […]
Barack Obama may have raised over 50M.
The Clinton campaign dominated the after news cycle today by announcing they raised 35 million dollars in February. That is by far the best month of fund raising for the campaign. It was the kind of news that the campaign hoped would enable them to build momentum […]
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Finally, a post-election deal has been signed in Kenya. This should mark the end of the violence that has gripped the nation since the end of December. Â
After signing the agreement, Kenya’s rival politicians shook hands and seemed ready to move on.Â
Opposition leader Raila Odinga referred to his rival as “my countryman, President Mwai Kibaki” — […]
6 days from now, Ohio and Texas may prove decisive for Barack Obama. But in the meantime, he is finding surging momentum throughout the United States. A new poll finds, for the first time, that he leads Hillary Clinton among democrats nationwide. This is significant in that it confirms his support continues to grow as […]
The last time he ran for President, in 2004, he got under 500,00o votes, meaning out of the entire country, about the population of 1 US congressional district voted for him. So why does anyone care about today’s announcement by Ralph Nader that he is running for President? In 2000, he ran well […]
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf has his back against the wall and is looking for some way, anyway to remain in power. After his party was trounced in the election on February 18th, there are few options for Musharraf to consider. Here’s one - ask a foreign nation to revisit 10-year old corruption […]
“Houston, I think we achieved liftoff here,†Mr. Obama told a crowd of 20,000 people in Texas as he celebrated his double digit win in Wisconsin.
With Wisconsin and Hawaii sealed for Barack Obama he has now won an impressive 10 states in a row since Super Tuesday.
This sets up the March 4th primaries in […]
In the end, it wasn’t even close.
“We concede and congratulate the people who have won the elections,” Mushahid Syed Hussain, general secretary of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q, the political party of Pervez Musharraf.
While the final results will not be known until later today or tomorrow, the margin of victory is so large that the […]
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Progress in Kenya has been made.
Today, Kenya’s rival parties have agreed to an independent review of the disputed presidential election. Since his arrival in the region Kofi Annan has been working furiously to find a way out of this conflict that has left more than 1,000 people dead.
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