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Steamrollers can be tricky to drive In the rush to try and secure 60 US Senate seats, and to breach the 250-seat mark in the House of Representatives, I wonder whether the Obama campaign ever considered that you could have too much of a good thing. For instance, I found it strange that, with such a fundraising advantage, Obama wasn’t redistributing his campaign’s wealth to tight Congressional races. This would have allowed for extra members of the Democratic majority in…

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Did it go wrong with his evasive PMQ responses? It’s perhaps hard to recall but just two days ago when the Baby P PMQ row first blew up it was running down towards the bottom of the bulletins. There were several other stories getting the attention and it looked as though Brown might have been able to move on. Not so today with further revelations about the handling of the case emerging and the Prime Minister having to make statements…

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How can Gord avoid Dave’s deliberate wind-ups? No doubt that on his flight across the Atlantic for the G20 meeting Gordon Brown will be reflecting on yesterday’s PMQs which seemed to go horribly wrong. Could the Cameron approach not have been the accident it appeared to be but was it part of a carefully worked out plan to undermine him? I’ve just been asked that question by a journalist who suggested that I might have predicted yesterday’s PMQ flare-up in…

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(According to the UK Polling Report seat guide the Nottinghamshire seat of Broxtowe is Tory Target number 42 and requires a swing of just 2.35%. Yet can Nick, who became the first MP poster prepared to contribute here under his own name four years ago, manage to hold on? In one sense he is honoured for his constituency is the first where betting has now opened. So the subject of incumbency is pretty close to Nick’s heart and he has…

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