Back in India, my peers and I would religiously wake up at 6:00 am during each US election cycle to watch the presidential and vice-presidential debates live on CNN. For long, the US has been a shining beacon of what a successful democracy could do for its populace and the model which people around the world [...]
To a politician, the next election is always the most important of his or her constituents’ lives. This year, however, most Republican voters would agree. They believe the results of President Obama’s first term must be reversed. As President Obama campaigns (did he ever stop?), his emboldened rhetoric attempts to drown out many inconvenient [...]
With Election Day nine months away, it is worth taking a break from the Republican primaries to look at the general election landscape. Despite a persistently weak economy, Obama can win reelection, and it is a better than 50-50 bet that he does so. Assuming Mitt Romney eventually captures the Republican nomination, it will be [...]
“Marriage is the most natural state of man, and the state in which you will find solid happiness.” (Benjamin Franklin) On the same day Americans elected their first black President, Californians approved Proposition 8. The measure amended the State’s constitution with a simple statement: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or [...]
A conservative Kenyan relates his personal odyssey through the 2008 election. In the process of selecting a leader, he makes surprising discoveries that transcend politics. On the surface, it appears that I voted for Obama because I am black, or because I am Kenyan, or both. But nothing could be farther from the truth. More [...]
$1.5B dollars and nearly 2 years of non-stop campaigning. Thousands of hours of media coverage and millions of words of commentary and dissection. An unprecedented online campaign with Facebook fans, entertaining YouTube clips and virtual organizing like never before. Controversies, the Bradley effect, accusations, hockey moms, and various incarnations of Joe fill-in-the-blank. It all came [...]
It just so happened that I woke up and turned on the television right as CNN was calling the election for Obama. Watching good old Wolf Blitzer deliver the news, I unexpectedly found myself overcome by tears. “Are you crying?” my mom asked, a bit in disbelief, when she called me a few minutes later. [...]
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