#USElections: Will it all come down to one Romney OpEd back in 2008?

If you didn’t get to see our US Politics panel that’s been bumping along in the background for six or seven weeks, last night’s is well worth the watch. See also: – Dante Scala on just how knife edge the race is in New Hampshire. – Nick Cull talks about how despite the tightness of the race, the betting money is going Obama’s way… – How the new modeling combining poll ratings with other economic factors has begun to replace …

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Slugger’s US Panel: The difference between Liberals and Conservatives?

Last night’s #MainStreamMatters was just me and Mel Dubnick, with contributions from others throughout the session… On the debate, we reckon Obama was playing to a slight strength, Romney to a slight weakness. Kellyanne Dignan wrote in: Slight edge obama. He had the presidential moment he needed. Romney still in it though! No lethal mishaps. One fun rumor… Romney allegedly spent all his prep time on style over substance… I think he was overcoached… Too many hand gestures from both …

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US Late Night Panel: After the Denver Debate…

Great panel coming from Mass, New Hampshire, New Jersey and California… Starting about 11pm tonight. Join us on YouTube, or leave your in the comments below… Mick FealtyMick is founding editor of Slugger. He has written papers on the impacts of the Internet on politics and the wider media and is a regular guest and speaking events across Ireland, the UK and Europe. Twitter: @MickFealty

US Presidential debate songified…

Cool video, but when you are done watching that, for US watchers, here’s the first post debate poll for Reuters… which is some of what we’ll be talking about on our Late Night panel tonight. Yes, it starts at 11pm Irish/UK time so we can bring together people from across America. No real damage done to Obama, but some dramatic rises in Romney’s rating on things like Medicare.. A sign perhaps that the Dem’s negative campaigning attempt to demonise the …

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