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Ryan Bourne - 02 November 2012 - US Politics

Last night I took part in a Cambridge Union debate on the motion ‘This house would re-elect Obama’. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the crowd was highly in favour of the incumbent President. The motion passed by something like 320 to 50-odd (I can’t really remember the exact number). But given that even ...

Ted Bromund - 02 May 2012 - US Politics

Last month, I had the pleasure of speaking at the Centre, and of spending ten days in London and Oxford. Goodness knows there’s plenty of media coverage of the U.S. in Britain – sometimes I think there’s too much – but the closer you look, the less satisfactory it is. ...

Ryan Bourne - 07 April 2012 - US Politics

I’ve just returned from an incredible week in California, where I was part of a Young Britons’ Foundation delegation. As part of the trip, our group had the opportunity to visit both the Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan Presidential Libraries. Like most memorials in America, these were incredibly grand – ...

Ted Bromund - 02 March 2012 - US Politics

Ron Paul is just as likely to win support from Democratic voters as their Republican counterparts, writes Senior Research Fellow at the Margaret Thatcher Center in Washington Ted Bromund. There’s no particular reason why foreign observers should know how the American system for nominating presidential candidates works. It has its virtues, ...

Ted Bromund - 09 February 2012 - US Politics

With the end of President Obama’s third year in office, and another foreign policy crisis in the offing in Syria, American commentators are struggling again with the problem of whether there’s an “Obama Doctrine,” and if so what it entails. In a stimulating article in the Weekly Standard, Elliott Abrams ...

Ryan Bourne - 03 January 2012 - US Politics

Yesterday saw the end of campaigning in Iowa ahead of the caucuses there today. The race for the Republican nomination has taken some extraordinary twists so far with the candidates seemingly taking it in turns to top the opinion polls for a while, only to spectacularly fall away. But whilst ...

Ted Bromund - 19 December 2011 - US Politics

Continuing his series on American politics and population, Ted Bromund of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom blogs on Democrat and Republican states' varying fortunes. In America, the Republicans are the red party and the Democrats claim traditional Tory blue. As I noted in my previous two pieces, while there is ...

Ted Bromund - 12 December 2011 - US Politics

Continuing his series on American population and demographics, Ted Bromund blogs on the advantages that conservatives may have. In my last blog, I noted that the Republicans will in the 2012 election build on a systemic advantage: states that lean Democratic are losing population, and states that lean Republican are gaining ...

Ted Bromund - 08 December 2011 - US Politics

One of the most important differences between the U.S. and Europe is that Americans move around. A lot. Even leaving aside outlier states like Florida, where 70 percent of the residents were born out of state – many of them retirees from the chillier north – the mobility of Americans ...