How good was Barack Obama’s campaign?
The Swing State Project website has compared the votes share won by Obama in 2008 against that won by Kerry in 2004 on a House district by House district basis. … Read the full post »
Read about the 2008 US Presidential Election, held on Tuesday November 4, in which Democrat Barack Obama defeated Republican John McCain.
The Swing State Project website has compared the votes share won by Obama in 2008 against that won by Kerry in 2004 on a House district by House district basis. … Read the full post »
Liberal Democrat Voice held its first ever fringe meeting at the party’s Harrogate spring conference. The room was so packed that a wall even had to be taken down by conference centre staff. … Read the full post »
Yesterday Progressive London held a day-long conference in, appropriately enough, London. It wasn’t that progressive, though – at least if you don’t think progressive means Labour and no-one else. … Read the full post »
We-Think, Charles Leadbeater book, is – as you would expect from him – an interesting and thoughtful study. … Read the full post »
Last week, Orange launched their report The Future of Politics. In the words of the accompanying news release, the reports shows “how British politicians can learn from Barack Obama and embrace technology to bring public involvement back into UK democracy.” … Read the full post »
As the dust settles and the hard numbers start to become available, it increasingly looks as if key parts of the grand picture painted during the 2008 US presidential election were wrong. … Read the full post »
First – ITV wiped the floor with the BBC in the quality of its election night coverage. A great mix of news, statistics, humour and drama. … Read the full post »
We might not yet know who the next President of the USA will be. But we do know who is the winner in the battle for social media dominance. … Read the full post »
TechnoSailor.com has a concise round-up of how Twitter and hashtags are being used as the US Presidential election draws to a close. … Read the full post »
Opinion pollsters using the telephone for political polls in the UK and the USA face some very different challenges. … Read the full post »