Tag Archives: US Presidential Elections 2008

Aside from the pollsters, statistical models and pure guesswork-cum-analysis, here are two fun ways to determine which US Presidential candidate will win this year’s Elections, it is said. First Method For 72 out of 76 years, the victory or the … Continue reading →

Mark Penn, CEO of a communications strategy company, who has been advisor to numerous politicians including Tony Blair and Hillary Clinton, drew out some demographic statistics of the voting public. Although some of these may seem too general, without specifying … Continue reading →

With the economy cited as one of the main issues in the US Election ’08, political pundits are trying to project the effect of the recent stock market rebound. Wall Street shook off more signs of global economic troubles Tuesday … Continue reading →

One of the questions that we have been asking political analysts here in Washington DC is whether or not these two things are influencing voters in advance of the elections (notwithstanding the 18% of voters who have already cast their … Continue reading →

American politics is not all about hard analysis and serious discussions (although this is what I have been doing practically 24 hours a day – okay, okay, minus the sleeping hours). There is great humour in all of this, as … Continue reading →

The Democrats and Republicans are not organised the same way ours are in Malaysia. We tend to think of “political parties” as strict systems, with strict party lines, constitutions, manifestos and membership. This is not the case in the United … Continue reading →

Today, Mr. Greg Schneiders who was Deputy Assistant to the President for Communications in the Carter White House – speechwriting and communication strategy – talked to us about branding and marketing of Presidential candidates. Some of the interesting things to … Continue reading →

If there’s one thing that Malaysians can learn about the pre-election buzz of the States, it is the way in which citizens have been driving things – from the very bottom up. The booklet shown above is called “Choosing the … Continue reading →

The countdown begins in America, with all eyes and ears on the final push between Obama and McCain: 7 days to go! Yesterday we were brought to the US State Department for a briefing on the US system of government … Continue reading →

Red or blue, red or blue. This is the question weighing on people’s minds as they look at the US map. When we can’t make second-guesses based on intuition, we let the experts speak for us. So in researching the … Continue reading →