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Is waterboarding justifiable if it saves London lives?

Is waterboarding justifiable if it saves London lives?

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What’ll George Bush do to the civil liberties debate? Ahead of its serialisation of the George Bush book the Times has an interview this morning which will surely spark off a big debate on civil liberties and the use of torture particularly if it can be shown to have saved people’s lives. The Times front page above sets out the dilemma. For Bush claims that information extracted from terrorist suspects by “waterboarding” saved British lives by preventing attacks on Heathrow…

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Do US politics not matter as much any more?

Do US politics not matter as much any more?

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Mid-Terms Betfair betting markets Amount matched House of Reps Democratic seats £73 House of Reps GOP seats £91 House control £33,971 Senate Democratic seats £0 Senate GOP seats £0 Senate control £64,823 Why are punters shunning the Mid-Terms? Today’s the big one in the US – the Mid-Term elections that take place in every presidency two years the White House race. These are immensely important in political terms because they can often define the final part of a four year…

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Betting countdown to the Mid-Terms

Betting countdown to the Mid-Terms

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Betfair Politics Betfair Politics We are less than a week away from next Tuesday’s elections in the US when two of the key issues will be whether the Democrats lose control of both the House and the Senate. So far, at least, the markets think that the Republicans will take control of the House but not the Senate. So far there’s not been a lot of betting in the UK though that could grow sharply in the final few days….

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How many gains will the Republicans make on November 2nd?

How many gains will the Republicans make on November 2nd?

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As we get closer Tim T looks at the prospects These mid-terms started with the 109th Congress. By 2006, deficits and scandals meant libertarians and socially liberal fiscal conservatives had little reason left to vote Republican. The GOP deserved to lose the House and Senate – and they did. By 2008, both the Bush and GOP brands were toxic. Even so, McCain nearly won – in early September, he led in the polls. 3 gaffes cost him dearly: admitting his…

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Stars and Stripes looks at next month’s mid-terms

Stars and Stripes looks at next month’s mid-terms

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In less than three weeks, the U.S. mid-term elections will fundamentally transform the trajectory of American politics. The results will not only determine the fate of the Obama agenda but will also set the framework for the 2012 presidential election season that will unofficially begin almost as soon as the last ballots are cast on November 2. But how is an interested punter to make sense of the hundreds, nay thousands, of races comprising the mid-term elections, from the U.S….

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Is now the time to back Palin?

Is now the time to back Palin?

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Do the 2010 primaries give her hope to make it all the way? This time next year, we’ll be well into the pre-primary season across the Atlantic and from the midterms so far, it’s shaping up to be a fascinating contest, with the Tea Party shaking up any number of races. Without getting too far into the detail, the scale of the inroads the Tea Party has made against incumbent politicians has been impressive. While a lot of the media…

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What’ll be the domestic fall-out from this?

What’ll be the domestic fall-out from this?

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BBC News Almost certainly the key moment of this evening’s Obama/Cameron news conference were the comments on the decision by the Scottish government last year to free Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi and allow him to return to Libya. The condemnation from both leaders was strong and forthright and the PM has promised a review of the case to provide further information. It was, of course, the Brown government that was in power when the controversial decision was made. This has also…

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Is this a turning point for Obama?

Is this a turning point for Obama?

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SkyNews What does it do to his 2012 chances? The big overnight news is Obama’s victory by 219 votes to 212 in the House of Representatives for his controversial healthcare reforms after a prolonged and massive battle. There’s little doubt that if this had failed then his chances winning of a second term in 2012 would have suffered a major blow. In the past months his approval ratings have taken a sharp knock and getting this through had become a…

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