Following the success (my targets were small) of Brother, Can You Bail-out My Bank?, and given that I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my blog-time blogging about the election, I thought it only right to sign off on the election with a tribute to the election that was.
So, to the unmistakeable tune of – and [...]
The Ballad of Barack Obama & Sarah Palin (or Manilow's Nightmare)
From hope to promise to a new America tonight – Obama's speeches since 2004
There seems to be a bit of traffic to and through this blog, looking for word clouds of and/or commentary on President-elect Obama’s acceptance speech in Chicago. Given that until now there was nothing on that topic, I have a feeling they left relatively empty-handed. Let me fix that now, with a quick zip through [...]
The genealogy-grammar paradox & Obama's endorsement of T&E Plumbing (or maybe it's the other way around)
The Huffington Post has an excellent collection of pictures from around the world, in response to the outcome of the US election – for more check out Election Day Around The World (PHOTOS).
I had to laugh at one in particular, the one from an hour down the road, Moneygall, County Offaly. The first thing that [...]
Last-minute prediction: Obama by a landslide! No, wait… a 269-269 electoral college dead heat
After all my poll-watching, I’ve decided to throw my hat in the rang one last time, and engage in that most dangerous of sports: the last-minute prediction. Last minute predictions give the predictor the least time to live in comfort in the time between prediction and outcome, and most danger of subsequent accusations of being [...]
Eight weeks work yields seven states for Obama, just Montana (maybe) for McCain
Between mid and late September, the big story in terms of the state-by-state polls was McCain’s loss of his ‘medium’ states – i.e. those where he had some lead, but not a large one – such as Florida and North Carolina into ‘toss-up’ territory. Obama had managed to garner a few extra ’strong’ electoral college [...]
Will even one state vote for McCain? Unlikely, it seems…
Will even one state vote for McCain? Unlikely, it seems…
… if you take a look at the (nation) states included in the Economist’s ongoing survey, “Global Electoral College: What if the whole world could vote?“. That’s the quite frankly amazing conclusion of the early voting. In not one country on earth would the McCain-Palin ticket [...]
Lean on who? McCain's problem – RCP poll analysis 09/29
A couple of weeks ago, at the height of Palin-mania, I did a quick cross-check of RCP’s electoral college polls compared to how they’d been at the start of September. At that time, there was lots of bad news for Obama, in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Indiana, in particular. To compound that, McCain had turned lots [...]
McCain solidifies his electoral votes – Pennsylvania, Michigan teeter
I had been wondering how long it would take for the electoral college system to reflect the polls, in the US presidential election. For quite a while, Obama seemed to be struggling in the polls but well ahead when all that was translated at the state level into electoral votes (EVs).
It seems that it’s finally [...]
It's the promise, stupid! Obama's DNC speech
The pre-speech favourite would no doubt have been “change”. Some thought it would be George Bush. Others John McCain, or Iraq. Others again thought it would actually be the economy, stupid – or something related, like jobs. Some commentators were speculating about Martin Luther King, given the date of the acceptance speech. Admittedly, very few [...]
