US presidential elections
Aug 14 2009, Marco Villa

The election of the first Black president has brought out the extremes in American society. Prior to and after Barack Obama’s election, gun and ammo sales in America reaches record levels with many stores reporting out-of-stock for a few days. Many of...

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Marco Villa, Connecticut
The American presidential election dominated the search engines of Google as the four candidates all made it to the top ten. In the list for “Who is...?”,...
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Nassim, Damascus
As we, in the Middle East, are affected by the outcome of the American elections due to the next administration’s prospective Middle East policy, I looked into...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
When an American election comes around the professional pundits seek to examine how each demographic will vote. Usually this concerns seniors, blacks, Hispanics, and...
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Ikramuddin Bahram, Peshawar
As the world watches, the world’s most powerful nation is entering into its presidential race with its procession in its last phase. Two men, a young and an old...
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Wa'd, Amman
I woke up this morning to the sound of my bitter sweet alarm, thinking to my self “why do I have to wake up early every morning, why do I have to go to work every...
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GEORGIA DIMOPOULOU, The North
I am not quite sure I like Sarah Palin. Judging from the media reports, one would probably not like working anywhere near her. But then I don’t like warmongers...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
Long-time crusader for ‘consumer rights’, and past and current third-party presidential candidate Ralph Nader has issued a challenge to Barack Obama and...
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Shira, Boston
Two weeks ago, I knew John McCain to be a man that I was thinking about voting for. A lifelong democrat, some of my positions on certain issues, lean towards the middle...
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View Point, Shimla
John McCain’s latest campaign ad compares Barack Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton stating - “He’s the biggest celebrity in the world, but is...
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Kim, New York
In 1976, a two-term Republican president (Richard Nixon) became extremely unpopular — much more so than the current Republican president George Bush, as seen in...
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Michael Kerjman, The Earth
Sometimes, news makes reader laughing loudly. Located in a heart of New York, the UN dispatches her envoy from Geneva to the USA for “probing local...
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Pearl, Daytona Beach
Remember the movie Groundhog Day? Part of it was funny; part of it was sheer agony. The thought of living one day over and over again sounds like torture. But the...
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Rudolf, New York
“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,’ she said in an interview with USA Today. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press...
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Crystal Stevens, New York
Given the results of the Indiana and NC primaries, the sad reality has dawned on me that Hillary may not win the nomination. My support for her remains as strong as...
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K.Ramesh Babu, Chennai
The battle reaching the final stage as the substantial numbers moving in favour of Obama, the first Afro-African candidate in the presidential race do to so. As blacks...
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Vision is all about understanding things as they are and imagining things as they could be. And it is the visionary leader who bridges the apparent wide gap between the...
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Lewis Waters, Vancouver, Wa.
For a country that boasts of “Separation of Church and State,” supposedly keeping religion out of State business, the 2008 Presidential Campaign seems to be...
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The hope of democracy is that there is hope. Hope that things can change. Hope that people will find their voice and somehow their voices will be counted. Hope that the...
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Pearl, Daytona Beach
President Bush proudly proclaimed “Mission accomplished” on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. The war wasn’t and still isn’t over. If the...
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Rudolf, New York
Mark Penn, the erstwhile adviser and strategist to Hilary Clinton has resigned his post as Chief Strategist. His resignation came as a result of a political flap that...
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Nitesh, Chennai
eopardized by an Indian political squabble, the landmark U.S.-India nuclear deal _ one of President George W. Bush’s top foreign policy priorities _ risks being...
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Prince Campbell, New York
Bloggers, Pundits and folks on the street are all asking that question right now. Those who gamble on this stuff think she’ll drop out very soon. Others think she...
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Emma, Culver
Fox News Channel, last week, restricted the number of presidential candidates who were invited to the debates before the New Hampshire primary. Among those left out was...
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Tomas, Atlanta
Nothing seems to work right for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in her attempts to once more dwell in the White House. Senator Barack Obama, despite inflated...
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