I walk past the Occupy Belfast protesters opposite St. Anne’s Cathedral nearly every day. It would be easy to sneer at them. They have some rather nice tents out of Decathlon, that well known bastion of anti-capitalism, and they seem to have a lot of fun. Not only are they not occupying anything more than Belfast’s new-but-now-traditional venue of ( Read more... )

Mike Gravel is really cute, so that's a result. Dennis Kuchinich? No, I think you must be confusing me with Che Guevara! It's correct that Obama is my favourite of the three mainstream candidates, but that I would probably favour Bill Richardson if he were more viable (and he'd be a great VP), and that I think a Ron Paul presidency would be an ( Read more... )

10% in. Remember, most of these results from small villages and the countryside ( Read more... )

Demos have a good results site. A close-to-even three way tie with Hillary seemingly stuck in 3rd place with just over 50% of results in. My instinct is this is bad for Hillary (although she has the resources to take it on the chin), superb for Obama if he can hold that narrow lead and difficult for Edwards, who needed to win here, but he isn't ( Read more... )