Why did Barack Obama win the 2008 election?

A little something from the archives of my school newspaper... The RLS Express...

November 4th 2008 - a day surely to go down in history. Barack Obama has made it into the history books, becoming the first ever black candidate to win a Presidential Election. Over 120 million Americans cast their votes; some flying back from across the world, others using park benches as their home addresses, queuing for hours to vote for Barack Obama. Never before has any candidate received so many votes, rivalling the Democratic victory of Lyndon Johnson almost 50 years ago. But why is it that he has made it this far, and will become the first ever black President of the USA when he is inaugurated in January?

Nigel Farage - Straight talking?

[May 2010]

Tonight I attended a 'public meeting' for the UKIP party, headed by Nigel Farage. He's the ex leader (as of 2005).

UKIP stand for the UK Independence Party. Don't know anything about them? Liberalist, nationalist (non-racist [in comparison to BNP maybe]) party... Here's some of their mini manifesto for you to chomp on.

Results Day!

(May 7th)

Darling, I'm on the train. Bercow held Buckingham (as he would do) with 48% (down from 58% last year though) and John Stevens in second place on 22%. Farage, to my surprise, got 21%, which is fairly high for UKIP in a conservative constituency. Overall, pretty unsurprising. Did you really have to do a recount on that? It wasn't really worth waiting til 2.30 for (PM!)

Abused by the political system?

Thursday 6th May 2010. D day. D for decision that is.

Having made the effort to rummage around the kitchen and find my polling card this morning, I came across a pile of election leaflets my mother had kindly not thrown out for me (I already kept the first copies, they were duplicates...) So I read through them (again) and then failed (yet again) to be inspired by any of them.