Here’s a nice little roundup of the state of play written by Luxembourgians. Everyone is Watching America, especially now.
Eight Critical Days for Candidates for the White House
After a brief truce to celebrate Christmas, eight days from the first elections, candidates for the White House resumed campaigning on Wednesday in Iowa (center) to try to convince the remaining undecided voters, in a race that looks very open.
Caucuses (Assemblies of voters) to separate the pretenders to the investiture of their party will be held on January 3 in Iowa and the more recently published opinion polls revealed extremely narrow gaps between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the Democratic side and Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney on the Republican side.
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Robin Koerner is a British-born citizen of the USA, who currently serves as Academic Dean of the John Locke Institute. He holds graduate degrees in both Physics and the Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (U.K.). He is also the founder of WatchingAmerica.com, an organization of over 100 volunteers that translates and posts in English views about the USA from all over the world.
Robin may be best known for having coined the term “Blue Republican” to refer to liberals and independents who joined the GOP to support Ron Paul’s bid for the presidency in 2012 (and, in so doing, launching the largest coalition that existed for that candidate).
Robin’s current work as a trainer and a consultant, and his book If You Can Keep It , focus on overcoming distrust and bridging ideological division to improve politics and lives. His current project, Humilitarian, promotes humility and civility as a basis for improved political discourse and outcomes.