The American election is only a few weeks away now, and the race has certainly got a lot closer. Barack Obama did not have a great first debate, but came back in the second one and on intrade.com they now say he has a 64% chance of winning, but that figure really changes all the time. At once stage he got as high as 75% in recent times and after the first debate his figure dropped to as low as 60%, so it does show you that any small slip-up can lead to fairly dramatic swings.

At this time the Republicans are getting a little bit desperate, trying to invent almost any story they can, whether it is about failure to look after Embassy staff in Libya, which must be fairly dangerous and out of the control of most Presidents, and pretty much doing anything to get pass Mitt Romney’s statements that 47% of all Americans are basically lazy people that just rely on the State to give them support in one way or another. Of course, he forgets that amongst these lazy people are, for example, soldiers who have gone to war for America and lost limbs and are now on disability grants – but to him they are lazy people! The truth of the matter is if Americans could just vote on which party has the best policies, the Democrats would win by a million miles, because only the very rich would support the crazy policies that the Republicans have, which is that the rich should pay less tax and the sick and the elderly don’t need to be looked after by the State with comprehensive universal care. The Republicans say that I ssocialism and everybody should fend for themselves. It has never ceased to amaze me, and nor will it ever change, that so many people can end up voting for a multi-millionaire, representing the interests of the rich and who cannot possibly be for their benefit, just as long as they are told silly stories that Barack Obama is not born in America or to be frank, because a lot of people in America, however sad it is, simply don’t want to vote for a black man, even though he represents their interests far more than Mitt Romney. I follow the American elections closely, and write about it a lot, because it is still the most powerful country in the world and what they do and what they decide affects all of us ultimately.