Some of the last pieces of the November 4th US election are falling into place. Felonious Republican Ted Stevens has conceded the Alaska senate race to Democrat Mark Begich. Missouri has finally declared for John McCain by just over three thousand votes out of 2.5 million - a major achievement for Obama - leaving Obama with more than twice as many Electoral College Votes as McCain in the final

The US Democrats are traditionally the underdogs when it comes to funding. They cannot match the fat cats that donate to the Republicans. Yet Barack Obama managed to do far better than John McCain through millions of small donations that, together, totalled well over $100 million dollars more than the big donors to the Republican camp. Labour is in dire straits financially, with accumulated debt a...

John McCain met with Barack Hussein Obama today and announced that he will work closely with the in-coming administration. As Rush Limbaugh put it: "That scares the hell out of me!" One Senator who will not be working to facilitate big government, socialist solutions to every problem facing the nation is South Carolina's valiant, conservative US Senator, Jim DeMint. In speaking to GOP officia...

Had to laugh at the news that Obama and John McCain have promised to work together "to fix the country". Sure. Just in the same way that a Vet fixes a male dog. When politicians agree, the people should start worrying. I've had enough of John McCain to last me a lifetime and all he does is to convey spurious cover on the Democrats by working alongside them. When it comes to considerning polit...

It looks like it may not be Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama seems to be keeping his options open and he is still meeting with John McCain on Monday. Perhaps my prediction was right. Wait and see. I can't think of a better man for the job.

Douglas Alexander MP is Labour’s Election Co-ordinator has used The Telegraph to explain what Labour must do to win the next election: “The Right - on both sides of the Atlantic - is disoriented and diminished by recent global events. David Cameron, like John McCain, finds himself stranded in the wrong place: you can’t privatise, deregulate

Could this be the man to take on Obama When the first betting prices >on the 2012 White House race last week many of the names that came up were ones we were familiar with already - 2008 contenders and those who had been tipped at one stage or another as John McCain’s running mate. One

A telling stat from NBC’s First Read and an illustration that the real author of this Republican rout was not John McCain but George W. Bush: with the exception of Missouri, Obama won every state where Bush’s approval rating was below 35%, and he lost every state where Bush’s approval was above 35%.

Here in Miami, Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska has just given her first press conference since she shot to international prominence when John McCain picked her as his vice-presidential running mate. It was a mess. According to my digital recorder, the actual Q & A with her lasted three minutes and 23 seconds and there were just four questions - three before press staff attempted to shut the thi...

Martin Eisenstadt's name keeps popping up in news reports and blogposts. He was a hawkish adviser to John McCain, he's a senior fellow at a think tank, and he's a very good source of insider gossip. Trouble is, he doesn't appear to exist.  Despite his claims to the contrary. The moral of the story is that we're all too eager to keep feeding that 24-hour news machine.