What The Spectator says: ‘Obama the Lib Dem’. (PS: It may even be a compliment.)
Over at The Spectator, Jonathan Jones looks at the US and UK approaches to their forthcoming budgets — cutting the deficit, taming debt, etc — and his fourth and final point concludes: Obama the Lib...
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LDV Caption Competition: The Obama & Cameron ‘Special Relationship’ Edition
There’s no prize at stake – just the opportunity to prove you’re wittier than any other LDV reader… Here’s the popular leader of a leading nation whose economy is on the road to recovery on a Boy’s...
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Politics in pictures: How Cameron, Clegg & Miliband led from the front this week
It’s been a tumultuous week in the political world. So let’s have a look at how the three main party leaders led from the front in statesmanlike fashion… David Cameron played badminton in a suit… Ed...
View ArticleThe importance of community politics in a homogenous political scene
When I first became aware of politics the world was looking towards Obama as a beacon of hope and change. As an 18 year old it was inspiring enough to want to change the world and campaign against...
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A longer read for the weekend: how Obama orders the death of terrorists
This week the New York Times ran a fascinating, detailed study of the drone war being fought by Barack Obama as he decides which alleged terrorists will be targeted by the American military: Mr. Obama...
View ArticlePaddy Ashdown: Why the World will never be the same again
Last week, Paddy Ashdown came to the Edinburgh Book Festival. He filled the main theatre twice over with two very different talks. The first, Why the world will never be the same again, was chaired by...
View ArticleTom Brake MP writes… Romney’s bought the latest gadget, but he’s forgotten to...
Romney’s bought the latest gadget, but he’s forgotten to read the manual.When Obama stormed to the Presidency he did so in glorious Technicolor while his opponent was still campaigning in black and...
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Romney campaign: Writing the “How not to” manual
The Mitt Romney campaign in the US has an interesting approach to some of the accepted campaigning golden rules: Before televised debates, you lower expectations of your candidate …That way when they...
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Unravelling the US election – or not, as the case may be…
There are just 16 days to go until the US Presidential election. Liberal Democrat Voice will be live-blogging the election results as they come in on the night. Hopefully, the count won’t go on as long...
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If Obama wins, this Republican ought, perhaps, to be top of his list of...
This is John Kasich, Republican Governor of the state of Ohio, USA. It is possible to argue, credibly (albeit amid much debate), that if Barack Obama wins re-election on November 6th, the first person...
View ArticleLibLink: Sarah Ludford MEP –‘US Presidential Election – What will be the...
Over at the Endeavours Public Affairs blog, Lib Dem MEP for London Sarah Ludford looks at this Tuesday’s presidential election and what it means for Europe. Here’s an excerpt: The Obama administration...
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#LDVUSA – Three nifty ways to help make sense of tonight’s election results
It can often be a mathematical nightmare trying to work out who’s winning as US Presidential Election night progresses. Sometimes, some poor souls even end up having to rely on David Dimbleby to...
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Four more years – thank you
Thank you to everyone who joined in our live blog/tweet following the exciting results from across the Atlantic tonight. Many thanks to everyone who used the hashtag #LDVUSA to join in! It was a great...
View ArticleLibLink: Mark Pack’s five lessons from the US election
I’ve long suspected that the Voice’s Mark Pack doesn’t need to sleep and his clear thinking after a long electoral night kind of backs up my theory. As my neural pathways crumble from lack of sleep, he...
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Opinion: US Elections – I’m not one to gloat, but….
I am still musing on what a wonderful night it was on Tuesday into Wednesday. I stayed up all night until I finally threw in the towel at 6.45am. It was a bit tedious at first, but it got really...
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Romney’s polling day technology meltdown: Orca
The usual post-electoral defeat search for explanations and people to blame has an added edge for the Republicans after Mitt Romney’s defeat earlier this month. Not only did Romney lose, he lost in all...
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What does the data show about the Obama campaign’s use of data?
So far, there has been a weird paradox at the heart of the coverage about the Obama 2012 campaign machine. On the one hand we’re all meant to be impressed by how it was based on data and analysis,...
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The Independent View: A reply to Mark Pack from Obama’s Director of Data
The Crystal Ball chart blogged by Mark Pack highlights the interesting cases of Alaska and Utah. These outliers make sense given the dynamics of the race (the large Mormon population in UT provided a...
View ArticleThe Eurosceptic tide is turning. Lib Dems must be in the vanguard
We have become used in recent months to unrelentingly bad news about our relationship with Europe. ‘UKIP now the third party’, ‘Majority would say no to EU’ and ‘UK heads for the Brexit’ have become...
View ArticleSteven Spielberg presents… President Obama: “I’m Daniel Day-Lewis.”
The 2013 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the annual event which disproves any notion the Americans can’t do irony… (Watch it on YouTube here.) And here’s the full 20 minute Obama routine: (Watch it...
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