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Congress and to a lesser extent the Senate are up for grabs in tomorrow’s US midterm elections. Jon Snow evaluates Barack Obama’s first two years in office, asking do the electorate really know him?
Together we will win on 6 November, Mitt Romney told the Republican party after his clean sweep in Tuesday’s primaries. But how will he shape up against Barack Obama?
President Obama called the result “a shellacking,” acknowledging US voters want solutions on the economy. The election means the Republicans have control of the House, and Democrats the Senate.
It is tempting for people to look at every political race in the US and wonder what it all means for the White House. There’s a time for that, but it’s not quite now, writes Richard Wolffe.
A Republican rout is expected at tomorrow’s US midterm elections. But is that a rebuke from the electorate for President Barack Obama? Felicity Spector looks at the numbers.
As Barack Obama returns from his summer break Felicity Spector asks if he can regain the “hope factor” which won him the 2008 election, in the face of negative ratings ahead of the mid-terms.
So I was in the East Room of the White House for what appears to have been a minor moment of US domestic history.. I was about five metres away from the president when he said that the Cambridge police ‘acted stupidly’ having mused on healthcare economics for an hour. This is what I, as stand-in…
Jon Snow
He was a ‘B’ movie star and we didn’t think that much of him in those days. Even though he had at least been Governor of California. Looking back, I suppose there were times when Ronald Reagan was regarded at the outset a bit like some now view Trump. Both, after all, promised to make America Great Again.
It was quite some shock to hear a political leader announce a “freeze” in energy prices. But is it really a return to old-school socialism?
Matt Frei
The US spending “sequester” that could come into force later today stands to shave as much as half a per cent off the country’s GDP growth. And its impact on the UK could be critical.
Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney apologises, after reports that he bullied a classmate at his high school, who was presumed to be gay. Not good enough, say his critics.
Matt Frei
Newt Gingrich is to quit the US presidential campaign, after a bid for the White House that’s kept headline writers reliably entertained.
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has been forced to distance himself from a key backer who suggested women should use aspirin as a means of birth control.
As George W Bush defends the use of “waterboarding” for saving British lives, Channel 4’s Job Rabkin looks at the former US president’s defiance and regrets from his time in office.
The Republicans have won control of the House but President Barack Obama’s Democrats have retained the Senate in the United States midterm elections.