As the dust settles from Super Tuesday, there was a clear delegate winner on the night. Mitt Romney took the lines share of delegates on offer with five clear victories and a single point win in Ohio. He now stands 200 delegates above his nearest rival, Rick Santorum. Though there are still delegate-rich races to …

Though great nicknames abound, the GOP field has failed to ignite any enthusiasm The twentieth GOP debate this week attempted to give the voters a lasting impression of the candidates. Though their positions were well rehearsed and their talking points recycled, CNN decided to continue the infotainment with a new round of nicknames, these ones …

With the GOP field narrowing even further with the withdrawal of John Huntsman, the most contentious issue of the contest is still the role of super PACs. Since the Citizens United Supreme Court ruling, corporations have been granted the same rights as people in their ability to make anonymous donations to groups supporting a candidate, …

By a mere eight votes Mitt Romney may be the first Republican presidential candidate to win both Iowa and New Hampshire. This is, of course, if he can stop Newt’s kamikaze mission to implode his candidacy. In a night that was decided by eight votes, Rick Santorum surge came at the exactly right time to …

One of the UK’s most successful exports to the US has been Simon Cowell. The X-factor, Pop Idol and America’s got Talent has replicated its success from the UK into America both in terms of dominating the entertainment culture and in getting segments of the population to vote in greater numbers than they do in …

Three weeks into #occupywallst the movement is receiving a major boost with American Unions joining the call of the protesters. With demonstrations spreading across state lines media outlets are wondering if this could be a left wing version of the Tea Party on the horizon. With CEO to workers pay at a whopping 475:1 ratio …

With Labor Day over, the race for the White House in 2012 has kicked off and at the top of everyone’s agendas are jobs. The August report card for employment was awful with not a single job created in the entire month. Currently there are 14 million unemployed persons in the USA – 9.1 per …

With the ‘top tier’ of the GOP now almost certainly set, two of the three candidates, Governor Rick Perry and Representative Michele Bachmann come from the religious right of the party, especially on social issues. As a newcomer to the USA seeing such culture wars around moral and social ethics in the public sphere is …

With a win for Michele Bachmann in the bizarre Iowa straw poll grabbing headlines, Tim Pawlenty dropping out of the race and Rick Perry entering it, it was a show of hands that gave me shivers this week. On Thursday night the GOP held its third presidential debate for candidates in Ames, Iowa. The debate …

Watching the US Congress operate, British MPs might have the right to feel a little jealous. Here is a system in which members of the lower and upper house have real power. Yet with great power should come great responsibility, a responsibility that has been sorely lacking from the men and women trusted with governing …