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Next stop – South Carolina
What matters isn’t the victory. It’s whether Mitt Romney’s rivals still have any hopes of knocking him off course, or whether he’s unstoppable, writes Felicity Spector.
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Romney heads for victory – again?
Mitt Romney didn’t win convincingly in Iowa and just one of his rivals has bowed out. But he’s got cash, he’s got organisation: the Republican nomination is still his to lose, writes Felicity Spector.
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Republican campaign moves on as Romney edges Iowa
Mitt Romney has won Iowa with the narrowest of margins. But as Felicity Spector reports, there is no rest for a would-be president, as candidates head for the next step on the campaign trail.
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Iowa makes its choice – but why does it matter?
In America’s election year, Iowa – the first state to choose who should become the Republican party’s nominee – is where the presidential campaign begins in earnest, writes Felicity Spector.
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New setback for Gingrich
The former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has suffered another blow to his Presidential hopes: he’s failed to get on the ballot for the Republican primary in his own state, writes Felicity Spector.
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Ted Hughes memorial marks poetic evolution
As the former Poet laureate Ted Hughes is honoured with a new plaque in Westminster Abbey, Felicity Spector asks whether poetry is undergoing something of a renaissance.
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Sliding polls: can Obama turn his fortunes around?
He was the man who inspired millions with his promise of change. So what’s happened to make Barack Obama quite so unpopular – and how can he turn things around, asks Felicity Spector.
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Senior Republican slams Wall Street protests
Populism, with a cause. Just as top Democrats rush to embrace the Occupy Wall Street protests, one leading Republican castigates the ‘mobs’, writes Felicity Spector.
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Chris Christie isn’t running for President. It’s official.
No White House run for New Jersey’s blunt talking Governor – despite huge pressure and weeks of speculation, writes Felicity Spector.
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Dark arts and light relief at the Lib Dem conference
It’s no entente cordiale at the Liberal Democrats conference this year – as senior party figures line up to condemn their Tory coalition partners, writes Felicity Spector.
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Obama’s jobs plan – a very political speech
Channel 4 News’ US politics commentator Felicity Spector assesses the reaction to the President’s pitch for a $447bn package to boost the US economy
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A macho game of chicken over America’s debt ceiling?
As bickering over the US debt ceiling continues on Capitol Hill, Channel 4 News US politics expert Felicity Spector reveals more than two-thirds of Americans just want to see a deal – any deal.
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Obama’s battle to avoid ‘financial calamity’
Can the Republicans and Democrats agree on a deal to avoid what experts have branded a “huge financial calamity” for the United States? Felicity Spector takes a look.
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Phone-hacking scandal, the American view
The phone-hacking scandal has been painted as a very British picture of journalism by the US press, even by Murdoch-owned organisations. And that’s the way he wants it, writes Felicity Spector.
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Mitts off as US Republicans go head to head in first debate
Channel 4 News’s US politics commentator Felicity Spector gives her reaction to the first major debate between the Republican presidential contenders.