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Last night CNN broadcast a two hour programme featuring four men who sat down in front of a TV camera in Arizona and talked. Only one of them had anything interesting to say and he had said it hundreds of times before anyway. Yes it was the Republican’s 20th TV debate during their 2012 Presidential nomination [...]
In an unexpected turn of events Rick Santorum, the socially conservative former Congressman from Pennsylvania, won all three of last night’s contests in the Republican Presidential Nomination race. Until voting began in January, he consistently polled around 1% and despite his triumph in the first caucus in Iowa, he has failed to finish in first or second place in any state [...]
With 50% of the vote and a clear-cut victory in Nevada on Saturday night, Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts, looks set to become the 2012 Republican Presidential Nominee and face Barack Obama in the general election in November. The Massachusetts Moderate, as he has been dubbed by his nemesis, self-styled conservative Newt Gingrich, has now won 3 out [...]
Just like a bad penny the Republicans can’t get rid of Mitt Romney no matter how many candidates they try to replace him with. A succession of front-runners have briefly topped him in the polls and beaten him in the voting in Iowa and South Carolina but he and his Super PACs just keep hanging on [...]
Republican Presidential Candidate Newt Gingrich yesterday promised the American people a permanent moon base by the end of his second term if elected president. Speaking to a crowd in Cocoa, Florida he also said that when 13,000 Americans had established a colony on the moon they could apply to become the 51st state. In addition, he envisions a rocket capable [...]
It’s one of the advantages of an incumbent US president: in an election year you give The State of the Union address in January and can promote yourself and your party with the whole of the country’s press listening in and no one to interrupt. The tiny chamber of the House of Representatives is for [...]
With 40 percent of the votes in yesterday’s Republican Presidential Nomination primary, Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of The House of Representatives, easily beat off the favourite, Mitt Romney, who finished in second place with 28 percent. This was despite the fact that Newt’s second wife had publicly trashed him on TV two days earlier. Marianne Gingrich revealed [...]
This morning Rick Perry, the conservative Governor of Texas, announced his withdrawal from the Republican Presidential race with polls in South Carolina showing him at only 4%. He entered the nomination process back in the summer with an enthusiastic reception from party members – especially Christian Evangelicals – which thrust him into front-runner position and attracted $17 million in campaign funding. His poor [...]
Today, the Wikipedia community announced its decision to black out the English-language Wikipedia for 24 hours, worldwide, beginning at 05:00 UTC on Wednesday, January 18 (you can read the statement from the Wikimedia Foundation here). The blackout is a protest against proposed legislation in the United States — the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in [...]
Aides of moderate Jon Huntsman announced today that the Republican Presidential Candidate is to withdraw from the nomination race after disappointing results in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary. He intended to contest South Carolina but when poor polling figures continued here – underlined by the fact that spoof candidate, comedian Stephen Colbert, garnered higher polling figures – [...]
