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U.S. presidential election (23): should the Democrats choose Hillary or Bernie?
March 11th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
Some of my closest American friends are working their hearts out for Bernie Sanders and he is doing far, far better than almost anyone expected in his quest to win the Democratic nomination for the US presidential election in November rather than the presumptive candidate Hillary Clinton. But for me, while my heart says Bernie, […]
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U.S. presidential election (22): how did it come to this?
March 6th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
In an article in today’s “Observer” newspaper, the prospect of Donald Trump as the Republican candidate against Democrat Hillary Clinton causes sheer amazement: “The bombastic, swaggering, sometimes vulgar billionaire has stunned the political world, plunged the Republican party into civil war and, among the pundit class, relegated the prospect of the 240-year-old republic’s first female […]
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U.S. presidential election (21): the delegate count so far
March 3rd, 2016 by Roger Darlington
Following all the excitement of Super Tuesday, where do the Democratic and Republican candidates for the presidential election now stand in terms of the actual number of delegates secured? To win the Democratic nomination, 2,383 delegates are needed. Hillary Clinton now has 595 so she is 25% of the way there. Bernie Sanders has 405. […]
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U.S. presidential election (20): still early days (look at the numbers)
February 10th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
For all the excitement of the voting for presidential candidates in the states of Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s still very early days. In the Republican camp, 1,237 delegates are required to win the nomination. So far, seven candidates have picked up delegates. The top four are Donald Trump 17, Ted Cruz 10, Marco Rubio […]
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U.S. presidential election (19): the previous, the next and the last contests
February 3rd, 2016 by Roger Darlington
So, in the first state to have primaries, Ted Cruz beat Donald Trump in the Republican race and effectively Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tied in the Democratic contest. In a perceptive analysis of the Iowa results, “Guardian” correspondent Gary Younge concludes his piece: “Last night’s results lay bare the scale and depth of the […]
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U.S. presidential election (18): the results of the Iowa caucuses
February 2nd, 2016 by Roger Darlington
Iowa was the first of the 50 US states to decide who its delegates should be to the Republican and Democratic party conventions which will choose a candidate for the presidential election in November. What were the results? Republican vote, 99% reported: Ted Cruz: 27.6%, eight delegates Donald Trump: 24.3%, seven delegates Marco Rubio: 23.1%, seven delegates Ben […]
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Let’s enjoy (and admire) President Barack Obama while we can
February 1st, 2016 by Roger Darlington
Regular readers of NightHawk will know that I have been an admirer of Barack Obama since even before he entered the Senate. On the day that the election of his successor as US President begins in earnest with the Iowa caucuses. let’s take a moment to reflect on the person who currently occupies the White […]
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U.S. presidential election (17): it wasn’t supposed to be like this
January 24th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
Over a year ago, commentators – me included [see this blog posting] – were speculating that the 2016 presidential election could be a contest between candidates from families that have previously occupied the White House, namely Hillary Clinton for the Democrats and Jeb Bush for the Republicans. So, how’s it working out? This is an […]
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Why were the opinion polls so wrong in predicting the result of the British General Election of May 2015?
January 20th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
This week, a report by Professor John Curtice for research agency NatCen was published which essentially concluded that the pollsters failed to obtain a genuinely random sample. As a result, they underestimated support for the Conservative Party. The problem is that some voters are easier to contact than others. Those who are easier to contact […]
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U.S. presidential election (16): is Ted Cruz eligible to be America’s president?
January 13th, 2016 by Roger Darlington
Oh, the irony of it: after all those stupid Republican birther claims that Barack Obama was not eligible to become President of the United States, there is now a discussion – mainly in Republican circles – about whether Ted Cruz, a serious candidate for the Republican nomination, is actually a US citizen and therefore eligible […]
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