12 thoughts on “The presidential race is Razor Tight”

  1. Well in the end it wasn’t that close: in terms of the popular vote, the 2004 (Bush vs. Kerry) contest was closer.

  2. (Just to clarify: I though it would be even closer than did Warren. I was wrong.)

  3. Well in the end it wasn’t that close: in terms of the popular vote, the 2004 (Bush vs. Kerry) contest was closer.

  4. Interestingly, I was reflecting with a Ugandan colleague on what’s been happening in the US in recent years, and we both reckoned that there has been a ‘paradigmatic shift’ in the nature of US politics: that the two main parties are more ‘ideologically-based’ than has been the case for decades. Less and less are they umbrella organizations that embrace a wide range of viewpoints; what Americans now have is more like what we Brits have had for my entire lifetime. This has recently made, and will continue to make, ‘bipartisanship’ more difficult to achieve than many might wish, whoever wins tonight.

  5. Much talk has been of the President winning the EC, but getting fewer votes nationally than the Governor. I’m not so sure about that: I think that Obama will get more votes nationally than his opponent and it is in the EC maths that is ‘very tight’.

    I’m going to make a prediction: Obama 275 – Romney 263.

    You can all ‘shoot me down in flames’ either before or after the result is known!

  6. Interestingly, I was reflecting with a Ugandan colleague on what’s been happening in the US in recent years, and we both reckoned that there has been a ‘paradigmatic shift’ in the nature of US politics: that the two main parties are more ‘ideologically-based’ than has been the case for decades. Less and less are they umbrella organizations that embrace a wide range of viewpoints; what Americans now have is more like what we Brits have had for my entire lifetime. This has recently made, and will continue to make, ‘bipartisanship’ more difficult to achieve than many might wish, whoever wins tonight.

  7. Much talk has been of the President winning the EC, but getting fewer votes nationally than the Governor. I’m not so sure about that: I think that Obama will get more votes nationally than his opponent and it is in the EC maths that is ‘very tight’.

    I’m going to make a prediction: Obama 275 – Romney 263.

    You can all ‘shoot me down in flames’ either before or after the result is known!

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