Apologies for yet another article on the US Presidential election, but they are still counting the votes. What’s more, the winner won’t formally be decided until the Electoral College meets on the 17th. Now, at the Deep End, we like to deal in serious issues rather than political gossip, but what we hear is that it’s likely […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter It wasn't all bad for the GOP, of course. They retained control of the House of Representatives. Because of big gains two years ago they had 29 of 50 governorships before Tuesday. They didn't lose any of those. In fact they won North Carolina meaning they now have 30 […]
Daniel Hamilton, Director of European Affairs at Bell Pottinger, previews this year's US Senate races for the third successive cycle. Follow Daniel on Twitter. Arizona – Congressman Jeff Flake (R) vs former Surgeon General Richard Carmona (D) After the best part of three decades in Washington DC, senior Republican Senator Jon Kyl is retiring from […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter I've made my own brief case for Mitt Romney in today's Times (£). I've argued that he's far different from the demonised caricature of the Democrat ad campaign. Instead he's better-placed to end the gridlock in Washington that is preventing America from facing up to its fiscal challenges. I […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter About a month ago we asked Tory members who they'd support in the forthcoming presidential election. I was heartened and surprised that Mitt Romney enjoyed just over 40% of respondents' support. In recent years – because of the Iraq war, because of gay rights issues, because of the Cameron […]
The case for a ‘wealth tax’ has supporters on both left and right. Those on the right say that taxing wealth – for instance, by creating new Council Tax bands for high value properties – is less discouraging of hard work and enterprise than taxing income. However, those on the left – who don’t much […]
By Matthew BarrettFollow Matthew on Twitter Mitt Romney and Barack Obama met for the first of three presidential debates last night. Expectations were high for Obama going into the debate, with a majority believing he would be the better debater, a majority believing he would win the election, and polling for the last few weeks […]
Mitt Romney’s ‘secret speech’ (the remarks he made at a fundraising event in which he appeared to express a total lack of care for the 47% of Americans too poor to pay federal income tax) has unleashed a storm of criticism – and not just from the left. From a British Conservative perspective, one of […]
By Tim MontgomerieFollow Tim on Twitter Recent opinion polls had suggested that at this very early stage of the presential run-in (the big Conventions and potentially decisive debates are still to happen), Obama was beginning to open up a reasonable lead in national and battleground opinion polls. Mitt Romney has decided to respond with a very […]
Dennis Lennox is a newspaper columnist for The Morning Sun, a daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Michigan. He is also a public affairs consultant, who has worked internationally and observed elections in Canada, Norway, Sweden and elsewhere. Follow Dennis on Twitter. The ruling today by the federal Supreme Court that the law commonly […]
David Skelton is Deputy Director of Policy Exchange. You can follow him on Twitter @djskelton. Newt Gingrich’s annihilation of Mitt Romney in the South Carolina primary served to highlight the Republican front runner’s biggest weakness – he finds it difficult to empathise with blue collar voters. His campaign was found out in a state where unemployment […]
The right needs an emotional, as well as economic, message. The MP for Harlow is building one.