It looks as if the Race for the White House will go down to the wire. At this point, here’s 5 things we know about what has been revealed by the U.S Election 2020 so far. 1. The polls were wrong about Trump – again Win or lose, this is no landslide for Biden. Most […]
At 11.30pm Irish time, the polls will close in Indiana and Kentucky, and counting will begin in a US Presidential Election that has been ongoing now for 18 months. Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President on April 25th, 2019. Tonight, voters will render a judgement both on him, and on the incumbent President, Donald […]
Living in Ireland is unusual when following US politics. Our national broadcaster and every national publication is sympathetic towards the Democratic Party and it’s rare if ever you hear a flattering opinion of the Republican Party and especially not of the current President of the United States, Donald Trump. I’m not going to come at […]
Give a lot of credit to the University of Southern California: It’s not often you see a major public polling outfit release a lengthy analysis of why its opinion polls might be wrong, but they’ve just done exactly that. For background, USC has been doing a daily tracking poll of the American Presidential Election. So […]
The New York Post is the third largest domestic newspaper in the United States by circulation. It’s a tabloid, founded in 1801, and could best be described as sort of an American equivalent to The Sun. A tabloid, but a real newspaper – not comedy publication like, say, the National Enquirer. Yesterday it ran a […]
A fairly extraordinary statement for any politician to make, this, but worth reading, in the context of the ongoing mud-flinging match that is the US Presidential election: My thoughts on the current state of our politics: pic.twitter.com/oYY4zlX6ZP — Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) October 13, 2020 He’s right, of course – it is terrible. Whether one is […]
For those of us who consider ourselves political junkies, every 4 years the US election brings a new level of excitement and pageantry to the world of politics. The two-party system in America gives the election a feeling of sports, where people across the world pick a side and cheer for who they want to […]
A few weeks ago, if you recall, the universal refrain of Trump supporters was that Joe Biden was so senile and incapable of stringing a sentence together that he’d likely pull out of the debates. How times change: The Trump campaign statement following the news the next debate will be virtual #foxnews #Debates2020 pic.twitter.com/IfntjS87OS — […]
In many ways, it’s surprising that it took this long for him to contract it. That’s not a comment about him personally, but about the job – he’s the President of the United States, in an election season. Even in normal times, he’s probably meeting twenty to thirty people a day sitting right across a […]
Confession: Two weeks ago or so I decided that no, I wasn’t going to sit up into the early hours of the morning to watch two cranky seventy year olds shouting at each other in America. And I was absolutely intent on keeping that promise, until Virgin Media rang yesterday and asked would I review […]
“The court — we are one vote away from losing our fundamental constitutional liberties, and I believe that the president should next week nominate a successor to the court, and I think it is critical that the Senate takes up and confirms that successor before Election Day.” Senator Ted Cruz As the United Supreme […]
The polling comes from ABC News, together with the Washington Post, and is very reputable. It’s more “eyebrow raising” than shocking in the case of Florida, but the Arizona numbers certainly justify the decision to break out the “Shock New Poll” headline: President Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are locked in close races […]