Vote USA 2008
Comprehensive coverage of this year's US presidential election
In Vote USA 2008
In defence of drilling
- By Jim DiPeso
- 23 June 2008
Jim DiPeso, Policy Director for Republicans for Environmental Protection, explains McCain's take on the environment, including his proposal to allow offshore drilling
Obama's first presidency
- By Geoffrey Robertson
- 19 June 2008
As a brilliant student, the Democratic candidate became the first black editor of the influential Harvard Law Review. What does volume 140 reveal about his future career?
Obama is a truly Democratic expansionist
- By John Pilger
- 12 June 2008
Truly exciting and historic moments have been fabricated around US presidential campaigns for as long as I can recall, generating bullshit on a grand scale
A new dawn for the Caribbean?
- By Darcus Howe
- 12 June 2008
The mass movement which has lifted Obama up high was bubbling beneath the surface of American society long before he issued his challenge
The lessons of Obama
- By David Lammy
- 05 June 2008
His campaign has rewritten the political handbook and created a new politics of real involvement
US election: it's far from over
- By Andrew Stephen
- 04 June 2008
Either candidacy could implode instantly, at any time, as the result of a gaffe or some unguarded moment. Obama must watch his hubris, McCain his temper
Fixing Bush's legacy
- By Raffaello Pantucci
- 03 June 2008
Whoever wins the White House they have a huge task to try to rebuild the US reputation abroad. Here Raffaello Pantucci reflects on the potential of an Obama presidency
Bush laid bare?
- By William H. Pingree
- 02 June 2008
Former aide to Ronald Reagan, William H Pingree, gives his reaction to the book by former White House spokesman Scott McClellan that last week stuck the knife into George W Bush
Blumenthal: Hillary the working class hero
- By Rachael Jolley
- 27 May 2008
Former adviser to Bill Clinton, Sidney Blumenthal is now on Hillary's campaign team. Here he tells Rachael Jolley how Clinton not Obama connects with America's working class
Hating Hillary
- By Andrew Stephen
- 22 May 2008
Gloating, unshackled sexism of the ugliest kind has been shamelessly peddled by the US media, which - sooner rather than later, I fear - will have to account for their sins
Also in Vote USA 2008
A murky outcome
- By Andrew Stephen
- 07 May 2008
After the North Carolina and Indiana primaries, the Democrats are increasingly backed into a corner, writes US editor Andrew Stephen
And the winner is: the lawyers
- By Andrew Stephen
- 24 April 2008
Clinton's victory in Pennsylvania points the way to a farcical legal finale to the Democratic race
Eyes on Pennsylvania
- By Mary Fitzgerald
- 21 April 2008
Poverty, deprivation, racial divisions and corruption - just some of the issues in the Pennsylvania primary. Mary Fitzgerald reports from Philadelphia
President McCain? It could happen
- By Andrew Stephen
- 17 April 2008
The Republican candidate has been the "forgotten man" of the race. Yet there is a good chance he will emerge the winner.
Learning from Obama
- By Rachael Jolley
- 09 April 2008
Britain's New Labour ministers could learn a lesson from Obama and that's how to communicate effectively with voters so their rhetoric chimes with people's aspirations
It could be a stalemate
- By Andrew Stephen
- 03 April 2008
The Democratic race is so close that it may be decided by the super-delegates - and planeloads of lawyers
The next president's Robin
- By Raffaello Pantucci
- 17 March 2008
Who will the presidential candidates in the race for the White House choose to be their running mates?
The fight is far from over
- By Andrew Stephen
- 05 March 2008
With Hillary Clinton's dramatic victories in Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island, Andrew Stephen reports on her reinvigorated campaign and the tarnish now on Barack Obama's sheen
Beware the Appalachians
- By Phillip Obermiller
- 03 March 2008
Presidential candidates ignore rural Ohio at their peril as the Appalachians may hold the key not just in the primaries but in the elections themselves.
Running with the McCainiacs
- By Raffaello Pantucci
- 22 February 2008
A McCain candidacy throws up quite a few problems - many Republicans loathe him plus there are concerns about his age and health
The illusory success of the surge
- By Rageh Omaar
- 21 February 2008
Perhaps the greatest success of the surge has been the way it was unquestioningly accepted as a panacea for the violence in Iraq
We ain't seen nothin' yet'
- By Andrew Stephen
- 21 February 2008
The battle between Clinton and Obama has been peculiarly unpleasant. Just wait, says our US editor, till the Republicans have one candidate to focus on
Americans in London
- By Raffaello Pantucci
- 11 February 2008
Just what influence do American voters living in London have over the US Presidential primaries? Well in part it's about money...
