That was a very different situation. McCain felt, probably correctly, he had to shake up a race where a poor economic backdrop put the incumbent party in a bad position. So he deliberately went for a… (View Post)

Mr Bean was global. I know a bloke who is a history tutor at Oxford who knew he was getting old when any Blackadder the Second references got a blank stare. I myself was struck by it when talking to … (View Post)

Did he, though? Clinton was Governor of Arkansas, played on his Southern credentials, and won several nearby states that another Democrat wouldn't, including Missouri, Lousiana and Kentucky in a… (View Post)

That simply isn't true. Giving additional votes to parents is giving the parents additional votes, not the children. Maybe a handful would take into their offspring's opinion, but I am cert… (View Post)

Have you stopped to consider briefly the circumstances that are likely to have led to a black woman being the great great great great grandaughter of a slave owner, and the extent to which her great … (View Post)