About Jamie Coomarasamy
I have a degree in modern languages (Russian and French) from Trinity Hall, Cambridge and I began my BBC career as a locally hired fixer/producer in Moscow in 1991 (just after the August coup). I...
View ArticleA call to arms?
If the main consequence of the Foley furore is to drain the energy from the Republicans' socially conservative Republican base and increase the number of what the influential conservative strategist,...
View ArticleWhose votes count?
A shocking statistic from the latest Pew/AP mid-term poll. Only 30% of African-Americans think that their votes will be counted correctly - down from 47% at the last election. Lingering doubts about...
View ArticleSuckers in Virginia
A friend of mine who first covered Virginia politics more years ago than he'd care to remember refers to six-term Congressman Tom Davis as a "walking political encyclopaedia". But when I hooked up with...
View ArticleThe buzz in Montana
All you American politicians looking for the right hair, the right suit, the right teeth, forget your fancy Washington image consultants and pay a visit to Bill Graves. He's the barber of Jon Tester -...
View ArticleAbortion battle
While the focus on Iraq suggests that national issues will have more of an impact than usual on what are essentially local elections, in South Dakota, a vote on a local law could have a nationwide...
View ArticleA gloomy morning
It's a pretty wet and gloomy morning here in northern Virginia - rainy, overcast, and pretty depressing for the folks here. And it's depressing because they voted in record numbers (for mid-term...
View ArticleMacaca moment
There was frustration with Iraq and concern about corruption - but you could argue that the real clincher for the Democrats, in the Senate at least, was the presence of mind of a young American of...
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