Many of the differences between American and British election campaigns are not the result of American campaigners having good ideas the British should copy, but rather are the result of four key legal differences between the two countries.

                This week’s main economic  event will not be the US elections, but the decision of the Fed to print more dollars. In expectation of more electronic greenbacks government  borrowing rates have been driven lower, assets generally have risen a bit in price, and money has flowed strongly into the emer...

For the benefit of anyone who would like a Brit libertarian angle on the US Midterms, Antoine Clarke has blogged about already (with more promised) at his recently launched Norlonto Review. And Rob at Rob's Blog is also up and liveblogging. Both are at Mr and Mrs Rob's home for the evening. I too was going to be there, if only to see how the new offspring is doing, but a seriously sore t...

Tuesday's mid-term elections will determine the new power balance in Washington. The BBC's Katie Connolly explains which races and trends will be the most telling on election night.

This evocation of the yellow peril in the US elections is pretty well known by now. Here’s a riposte, courtesy of you know who. Also via everywhere.

If Barack Obama is feeling unloved at these midterm US elections, he should pay a visit to Prince George's County in Maryland

Concerning these elections that are coming up in the USA in a week or two's time, there seems to be a big argument going on about how smart the Democrats are compared to the Republicans. How smart or dumb are Barack Obama, Sarah Palin and the rest of them? Who, for instance, is being smarter or dumber about the year 1773? But those who worry about how smart or how dumb the various candidates ...

A big Republican victory in the mid-term US elections this November could spell disaster for the party's hopes in the 2012 presidential poll, according to David Frum, George W. Bush's former speechwriter

Senior Democratic lawmakers are studying a proposal to curtail any potential foreign influence over US elections following a Supreme Court ruling last week that gives corporate America, including US subsidiaries of foreign companies, a blank cheque to support or attack political candidates

With the party leaders having agreed to televised debates, I thought it would be useful to look at the evidence about the influence of the debates on the outcome of US elections. The best study on this subject is that...