Archive for November, 2008
Saturday, November 8th, 2008
LIVE ELECTION RESULTS>> Party Status - Overall Graphic - Electorate Table
Scoop's version of the live results can be viewed at the above links. These are being updated on a 1 minute basis off the official Chief Electoral Office website.
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Friday, November 7th, 2008
With one day to go, this election campaign continues to be a foregone conclusion that stubbornly refuses to turn into a real contest. The narrative that the media would have preferred – tightening race, mounting drama, nail biting excitement – just hasn’t eventuated. By the time the last debate rolled ...
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
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Hope you enjoyed Scoop’s blogging on the US elections yesterday. Sure was fun to do. In the aftermath of the victory of Barack Obama, the passing in California of Proposition 8 that bans gay marriage ( and puts current gay civil unions in limbo) was not really a ...
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
8.20pm Ok, time to wrap this up for the night But first a recap, and then some consideration of the parallels to New Zealand. First, George Bush made it nigh on impossible for John McCain to win this election.
Essentially, McCain was faced with trying to get a mandate ...
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
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On Wednesday, as results come in from the US election, I’ll be blogging the signs/consequences live on Scoop. The target to win the Presidency is 270 votes in the US Electoral College, and even the most zealous US patriot would probably concede that this system is an imperfect ...
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Monday, November 3rd, 2008
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Voting commonly plays out as an act of retribution, with the motivation to vote being either a desire to wreak vengeance on the incumbent, or to send a warning shot across the bow of their likely replacement. So, its hardly surprising that the law and order ‘debate’ tends ...
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