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Teabonics

With the Tea Party movement starting to exercise its political muscle within the Republican Party (it’s primary season in the USA), it’s timely to look at some of the ideas driving the teabaggers. Luckily for us in Australia, there’s a great Flickr photo set showcasing some of the more creative protest signs from various rallies [...]

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Massachusetts election outcome shows dangers of incumbency

On Tuesday, I wrote that the Democrats would be the victims of incumbency. In Massachusetts, a strongly Democratic state, the Dems control the state Legislature, most or all of the Congressional seats, and now all but one of the Senate seats. With Obama in the White House, and the Democrats controlling the US Congress and [...]

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The Democrats will be victims to incumbency

There’s been some discussion about whether the Democrats will be victim to the over-cooked expectations of Obama supporters and energised conservative Republicans: First, the background: the party of the president in office essentially always loses seats in the mid-term elections (2002 was a post-9/11 one-off), a tendency likely to be reinforced in 2010 by the [...]

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