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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 [...]
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 [...]
As widely predicted, Mitt Romney won the Republican Presidential Nomination primary in the comparatively moderate New Hampshire yesterday. Gaining almost 40% of the vote there, he moves on to South Carolina with two wins under his belt and now looking like the front-runner nationally. Joining him in the ultra-conservative state will be Ron Paul,who came a good [...]
The next US Presidential Elections won’t take place until November 2012 but judging from the fact that possible candidates have been promoting themselves throughout the media for the last year I must presume that American politicians believe that the early bird catches the worm. On a more sinister note, they also seem to believe the truism that money buys [...]
With the current deluge of US political TV debates, it struck me recently that the Republicans aren’t searching for a presidential nominee to challenge Barack Obama but are piloting a new reality sitcom: The Eight Republican Characters of Comedy. For the uninitiated, The Eight Characters of Comedy is a book by Scott Sedita which suggests that successful sitcoms [...]
