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Professor in American Politics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations, United States Studies Centre,, University of Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia, and US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Modern History, Monash University
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Associate Professor, American University School of Public Affairs
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American decline has become basic to the debate about international relations. It is and will become a ubiquitous claim as the federal government moves toward the “fiscal cliff” soon after the 113th Congress…
Barack Obama ended his victory speech in Chicago last night with the words: “And together, with your help and God’s grace, we will continue our journey forward and remind the world why it is that we live…
Now that even Karl Rove has accepted the result, some early thoughts are in order. The numbers will be picked over in the next weeks, but exit polls paint a clear picture. And the long-term news for Republicans…
Barack Obama has now won, apparently losing only conservative Indiana and North Carolina from his 2008 list of states (Virginia and Florida not called yet, but Obama is up and it’s his friendly precincts…
Moments after its polls closed, networks called Michigan for President Obama. That’s important for two reasons. First, it shows that in the auto-industry states of the Rust Belt, Obama has closed the deal…
It is really upon us. Polls have closed in the first states, Indiana and Kentucky. Those are conservative states, Romney wins. Tiny liberal Vermont is already being projected for Obama. No surprises. The…
American politics is nothing if not quirky. We let corn growers and maple-syrup farmers set the course for the presidential primaries. Our federal elections are a byzantine maze of local and state voting…
One of the intriguing questions in this race is if the Democrats can hold onto the Senate. At the outset of the campaign, this looked a long shot. Of the 33 seats up for election this time, 23 are held…
I began this campaign tipping Rick Perry – so the following should be treated with a large pinch of salt. I just have an inkling, a very politically unscientific sense, that Romney is not out of this one…
The 2016 presidential race has already begun, as evidenced by politicians such as the mayor of Los Angeles dropping by to visit the luncheon of the Iowa contingent at the Democratic National Convention…