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Category Archives: American Presidential election
Jill Stein raises cash to finance recount in Michigan,Wisconsin and Pennsylvania where vote is very close and computer scientists and analysts worry vote tampering might have occurred.
There is a fundraising campaign underway to raise 2.5 million dollars to finance a recount in three key battleground states with a total of 46 electoral college votes. The Green party chief Dr.Jill Stein has already raised 1.9 million $ … Continue reading
Hillary wins the popular vote but Trump wins the electoral college and the Presidency: Shocking surprise outcome for most Americans and observers
Well forgive me if I state ‘I told you so” but as I was not shocked by the result in the Presidential election. I knew a close race and a narrow Trump victory was a definite possibility. Indeed, I wrote … Continue reading
An American Tradition:Dixville Notch votes at midnight. Results announced shortly thereafter
An endearing American tradition will take place again in the tiny Hamlet of Dixville Notch New Hampshire at midnight. The Presidential election polls will open at midnight and the votes will be counted shortly thereafter, since only 12 people live … Continue reading
Potentially a tie despite the gap in the national polls: state by state polls suggest a very close race
The latest state by state polling results in the US presidential race suggest that on the eve of the election there is a plausible scenario which would result in one toss up state determining the election or even more extraordinary … Continue reading
Race down to the wire :Trump visits Minnesota where populism has a long history; FBI chief clears Hillary stating the agency has reviewed the latest batch of e mails and their review does not change their July opinion
The polls suggest a close race perhaps getting closer by the hour. As part of that last minute race both candidates are making whirlwind tours of both battleground states and several ones thought originally to be safe blue states. One … Continue reading
The centre may not hold: Tales from Brexit, the EU, the American election and the eroding foundations of democracy
I started my career as an educator working with trade union members teaching labour history and principles of economics. Our program sponsored by the social democratic progressive NDP government of Ed Schreyer and organized by innovative technocrats at the Department … Continue reading
Sanders Wins Virtual Tie with Clinton in Iowa;Cruz ahead of Trump and Rubio on Republican side; Will This Last ?
The Opening U.S. presidential primary in what promises to be an exciting race for political junkies took place in Iowa last night. There were a number of surprises at least for those who didn’t have their ear close to the … Continue reading
The Assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy fifty years later
This week on Friday November 22 is the fiftieth anniversary of the murder of John F.Kennedy in Dallas ,Texas. Its hard to believe that fifty years have passed.I was seventeen at the time, a first year university student at the … Continue reading
US Unemployment Rate Falls to 7.7% from 7.9%:Positive trend continues
The latest U.S. unemployment rate shows a continuation of the positive trend of lower unemployment and a gradually healing eeconomy. The headline rate for November 2012 dropped two tenths of a percentage point to 7.7 % from its October … Continue reading
Obama wins decisive but narrow victory in both popular vote and electoral college.
This past week’s American election marks an important historical turning point. A broadly based multi-cultural multi-lingual diverse lifestyle progressive 21st century coalition won a narrow but decisive victory over a much more conservative traditional 20th century coalition. Both sides worked … Continue reading
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