Hey everyone,
This is our farewell post...  together we have seen history created and may we say that our interaction with all of you made everything that much more meaningful. Thank you everyone who took the trouble to answer our questions and comment on what we had written. You gave us intelligent and thought provoking feedback and we are all the ( Read more... )

Writing on the Independent's blogs, Andrew Keen feels the debate marked the effective end of the election:

The Odd Couple Show is now history and the election is over. McCain and both old and new American media have lost. On 4 November the electoral soap opera will end. Rather than facing a weirdly uncomfortable 72 year-old from Phoenix, Arizona ( Read more... )

Poll Debate instapoll

Greetings one and all, and welcome back for US Election 2008's coverage of the third and final Presidential debate of this election cycle, from the campus of Hofstra University in Long Island, NY. This week, a confident Barack Obama leads in the national polls, but John McCain reckons he's got them right where he wants them. Only the next 3 weeks ( Read more... )

So, both candidates covered foreign issues in the first two debates. Last night they touched specifically on the “Russia question” , namely the Kremlin’s new found confidence and whether this represents a threat to Americans. Both Obama and McCain tried to avoid the impression that they’re speaking about a new Cold War but their rhetoric was ( Read more... )

Greetings one and all, and welcome to the US Election 2008 open thread for the second Presidential debate between John McCain and Barack Obama from the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee.

While the world markets crumble in fear and the bailout rolls on, Obama's standing in the horse race has improved, as shown in the polls and in ( Read more... )

Leonard Doyle writes on The Independent's blog:

McCain needs a knock-out performance at the town-hall-style presidential debate tonight if he is to keep his hopes alive.

Polls show Obama leading 52-44, his highest level ever. The election has now been transformed by the the financial crisis which has shot Obama into the lead both nationally and in ( Read more... )

Poll Who won the debate?

The vice-presidential debates are over. What do you think? Did you hear from Sarah Palin anything other than the standard set of “folksy colloquialisms” (as Tom Shales from the Washington Post calls it ) and her traditional mantras such as “Washington outsider”, “maverick” and the need to “combat the Wall Street greed”? And what about Joe Biden, ( Read more... )

Hi this is Anita. We will be covering an event in New Delhi hosted by Democrats Abroad where the vice presidential debate between Palin and Biden will be screened. We're looking forward to talking to the crowd there before and after the debate. Do you have any questions for them?