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Is the United States becoming more aggressive?
November 12th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
I have just started reading: “The Next 100 Years” by George Friedman. He admits that: “The United States is, historically, a warlike country.” Consider these figures in the book: The US has been at war for about 10% of its existence. During the 20th century, the US was at war 15% of the time. In […]
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Rachel Maddow explains what the American presidential election result really means
November 11th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
This video clip lasts 15 minutes, but Rachel Maddow of the MSNBC channel explains what the return of Barack Obama to the White House and the defeat of Mitt Romney really means to Americans and the world.
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Two statistics that explain America’s global power
November 9th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
What proportion of the world’s population is constituted by the United States. The answer is a mere 4%. What proportion of the world’s gross domestic product is generated by the USA? The answer is an astonishing 26%. The figures come from a book that I have just started reading: “The Next 100 Years” by George […]
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Some reflections on the US presidential election – and how the event impacted on my web site
November 9th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
As I did with the American presidential race of 2008, I’ve blogged regularly on the 2012 contest. In the end, the result was much as I had been suggesting it would be. Although in terms of the overall share of individual votes, Barack Obama only won quite narrowly, as I constantly pointed out, the contest […]
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Obama vs Romney: the last couple of days
November 3rd, 2012 by Roger Darlington
On Tuesday, the United States will hold elections for the President, a third of the Senate, all of the House of Representatives, and all sorts of local positions. The world has been watching the presidential election especially, finding it hard to believe that the Democratic incumbent Barack Obama could be finding it so difficult to […]
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How come that voting has already started in the US presidential election?
October 28th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
In the federal system that is the United States, each individual state determines voting processes which is why so many Republican-controlled states have passed the voter suppression laws. So each state determines whether a vote can be cast before polling day either through the post or otherwise. Votes are not actually counted though until the […]
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Obama vs Romney: on the final stretch
October 23rd, 2012 by Roger Darlington
The United States presidential election is only two weeks away and we have just had the third and final of the debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Romney certainly won the first debate, but Obama came back fighting and probably won the second and third on points. So, how does the election stand now? […]
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An American view of the US presidential election
October 18th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
I’ve been blogging a lot about this year’s presidential election in the USA (although nowhere near as much as I did about the 2008 election), but I wanted to share with you the latest analysis from my good American friend Mike Grace with whom Vee and I spent a week earlier this year. He writes: […]
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Obama vs Romney: how’s it going?
October 15th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
The United States presidential election is just three weeks away and we are about to have the second of the three debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. So, below all the media froth, how is the election going? Real Clear Politics is an independent and informed web site which tracks American politics in forensic […]
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Is Barack Obama really going to lose the US presidential election?
October 9th, 2012 by Roger Darlington
Four years ago when Barack Obama won the presidential election, I did not imagine that his re-election would be so problematic. But he has faced the deepest recession in a generation and an intransigent Congress and – let’s face it – he has not always been as bold as his supporters hoped. Over the summer, […]
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