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August 20th, 2010 | Tags: 2010 Australian election, Australian Labor Party, Barack Obama, Brendan Nyhan, David Kemp, John Howard, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party of Australia, Tony Abbott | Category: Australian politics, US politics | 2 comments
In November Americans will vote in Congressional elections that will probably deliver a major rebuff to the Democrats. Is there any way the Democrats could have prevented this outcome? From an Australian viewpoint the American discussion of Congressional elections is curious as relatively little attention is given to overall voting intention, it is true that [...] July 19th, 2010 | Tags: 2010 Congressional elections, bailouts, bank nationalization, Barack Obama, Christopher Caudwell, Democrats, Joshua Gans, Karl Marx, Republicans, TARP | Category: US politics | Leave a comment
The recent debate about the Resources Super Profits Tax revives an old argument about whether or not capitalists have a veto power over governments due to the alleged linkage between business investment, economic activity and the likelihood of re-election. Critics of capitalism once favoured this argument (and conservatives opposed it) but now with the demise [...] July 14th, 2010 | Tags: Barack Obama, business confidence, capitalism, Charles Lindblom, David North, Jack Lang, Kevin Rudd, Oliver Williamson, Resource Super Profits Tax | Category: Australian history, Australian politics, US politics, capitalism | Leave a comment
Does political leadership make a difference? The rise of Julia Gillard and the downfall of Kevin Rudd remind me of the ongoing American debate. Here a variety of critics from left and right have argued that Barack Obama’s declining approval rating (and the closely related prospects of the Democrats in the upcoming Congressional elections) is [...] July 13th, 2010 | Tags: 2010 Australian election, asylum-seekers, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Brendan Nyhan, framing, George Lakoff, George Packer, Julia Gillard, misperceptions | Category: Australian politics, US politics | Leave a comment
In many respects modern Labor has returned to the type of inward musing that it engaged in after 1996. Then there was an assortment of vaguely defined rhetoric about the party’s perceived excessive social liberalism, these critics however were very vague as to exactly what alternative policies they proposed, instead they preferred to focus on [...] July 5th, 2010 | Tags: Adam Carr, Anna Bligh, asylum-seekers, Australian Labor Party, Barack Obama, Brendan Nyhan, immigration, Julia Gillard, Matt Yglesias, Michael Thompson, race, racism | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment
There are some signs of improving prospects for the Democrats in November. At least one poll now has then ahead in the generic ballot and the Real Clear Politics poll average has almost a dead heat. In this context Pennsylvania-12 takes on added significance. May 17th, 2010 | Tags: 2010 Congressional elections, American politics, Barack Obama, Democrats, Jonathon Chait, Pennsylvania-12 special election, Republicans | Category: US politics | Leave a comment
Not my musical tastes but relevant to the Democrats’ current electoral woes… Have the Democrat’s prospects in the upcoming mid-term elections improved? They remain dire. The upcoming special elections in Pennsylvania and Hawaii are likely to be lost by the Democrats. The Pennsylvania special election is in the 12th district in the former steel-making and [...] May 3rd, 2010 | Tags: Allentown, Barack Obama, Billy Joel, conservatism, conservative Democrats, Democrats, John Murtha, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania-12 special election, Republicans | Category: US politics | Leave a comment
Has Obama’s presidency been a wasted opportunity for American liberalism? Was there ever a prospect of establishing a permanent Democratic majority? Via Mathew Yglesias an interesting analysis from an American dating site using membership data to track the relation between ideological identification and partisan allegiance. April 4th, 2010 | Tags: 1996 Australian election, 1998 Australian election, Barack Obama, Brendan Nyhan, conservatism, Democrats, health care reform, John Howard, liberalism, Mathew Yglesias, Paul Keating, realignment, Republicans, Ronald Reagen, US poltics | Category: US politics | Leave a comment
David Greenberg was one of Hillary Clinton’s academic defenders, and he did a more effective job of this than Sean Wilentz. He has an insightful article on Obama’s first year: One year in, Obama’s approval ratings have slipped, and they’re likely to get worse. He’ll probably muddle through seven more years of partisan acrimony, small-bore achievements, [...] January 18th, 2010 | Tags: 1934 Congressional elections, 2010 Congressional elections, Barack Obama, David Greenberg, FDR, Franklin Roosevelt, National Recovery Administration, New Deal, Sean Wilentz, US politics | Category: US politics, liberalism | Leave a comment
Erza Klein argues that polls show support for health care reform rising (and this at a time when the current bill has attracted substantial opposition from the left). As I have argued before perhaps Australia may provide a guide, the single-payer systems of Medibank and Medicare implemented by Labor governments in 1975 and 1984 (a [...] January 15th, 2010 | Tags: Australian Labor Party, Australian politics, Barack Obama, Democrats, Erza Klein, health care, Liberal Party, Medibank, Medicare, Republicans | Category: Australian politics, US politics | One comment
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