Archive for January 29th, 2008
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I must admit that my husband’s passion for politics is beginning to rub off on me and I have been following the US Primaries. The race to become the Democratic or Republican candidate for President is fascinating .. it is ’soap’ worthy as the race is hotting up between the front runners and ‘dirty tricks’ are coming into play.
I am interested to see if Giuliani will do better than the current polls predict in the Florida Primary. I didn’t understand why Giuliani didn’t campaign in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina … to give himself a momentum that the other candidates now have. Andrew explained to me the reason for his campaign strategy was that certain states hold more representatives than others. Therefore, Florida holds probably 10 times more candidates than somewhere like Ohio and therefore, if you take Florida you stand a good chance of winning the nomination.
It seems to me that in the US you feel like you have much more of a say, if you want to have, in the person who leads your country. I don’t remember voting for Gordon Brown or Cameron …..