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Rick Santorum plans no campaign events today and will spend time with his wife and ailing daughter Bella.

"French Institute of Public Opinion (IFOP) polls show that the French see Sarkozy as more presidential than Hollande by a wide margin, but that Hollande is seen by a wide margin as more understanding of the French and sympathetic." ---> Thanks to this course I could now analyze why these results take place :P

Sarkozy launched into the final phase last week with his "Letter to the French People," a 16-page "vision of France and its future." This personal format, borrowed from his Socialist Party predecessor Francois Mitterrand, who called on the French to re-elect him in 1988 in "A Letter to All French People," reads largely like a right-wing manifesto, and portrays a country stricken with dangers, threatened by uncertainties and by the -- unnamed -- Islamic fundamentalism, referred to as an "extremist ideology whose goal is to destroy our Western values."

This comment above was taken from der Spiegel, published on the 10th.

Watch campaign ads in the 2012 presidential campaign and track campaign ad spending by candidates and interest groups. Super interesting site, I didn't know Romney was spending THAT much on ads (more than all the other candidates combined), it's crazy! Plus, if anyone still couldn't find ads for the position papers, there are plenty here, enjoy!

I looked into Romney's ads, and when you see his campaign strategy, it's not too surprising. He has made ads targeted at individual states (new hampshire, missouri) and is attacking candidates left and right (mainly Santorum and Obama). These are distinct from the general platform ads he has running on TV.

This ad was analyzed by Karin Assaf in her first position paper 

hah good one!

Almost exactly four years ago, Barack Obama made one of the worse gaffes of his political career. He told highfalutin donors at a San Francisco fundraiser that "bitter" voters in rural Pennsylvania "cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren't like them... as a way to explain thei...

Learn the French presidential candidates' stances on everything from economy and migration to foreign policy and the EU

It is extremely helpful, sums up everything in a neatly divided table. Have a look! :D

i signed up for the truthteam thing on his website, and now i get 5 emails everyday from "Barack Obama", "Joe Biden", and "Michelle Obama" themselves asking me for ca$h money. i'm just a little annoyed about the all around audaciousness in the way that his team is going about it.

Obama is technically a shoe-in for the Democratic candidacy, the final vote on Tuesday will determine the end of the low-key primaries which were taking place. As the article states, it's almost "party time".

This video is a debate over the effects of Super PACs on the presidential race, negative ads and their impacts on candidate image (both attacker and attacked) and whether politics is financially driven or merit-based.

Le Pen is going to cast a white ballot! Maybe now you could like her :P "I will not grant my trust, or a mandate, to these two candidates, On Sunday, I will cast a blank ballot"

According to what I've heard, this was always the case with the Front National. Same happened when Jean Marie Le Pen was at the head of the party. They never endorse anyone

"Here's the buzzed-about anti-Obama political ad in which Barack Obama's oppressive coolness is exposed. There's a lot about this strategy I don't understand. Is being cool a problem when you're a president? Does this ad make Obama's fans like him any less? Could Mitt Romney ever pull off Al Green?"

Socialist voters face a nervous wait for the results of today's presidential election runoff between Nicolas Sarkozy and François Hollande after final opinion polls following Wednesday's fiery television debate revealed a late surge in favour of the outgoing president, who has trailed his leftwing rival throughout the race.The polls indicated that Hollande was still on track to win the second round runoff vote, but revealed that the gap between the presidential rivals had narrowed from 10 percentage points a week ago to between four and six.

Rick Santorum plans to endorse Mitt Romney in the general election against President Barack Obama, that much is clear. The question is, how strongly will he support his former rival after months of brutal back-and-forth attacks during the Republican primary season? The answer could become more clear on Friday, when Santorum and Romney plan to [...]

Primary elections in Mississippi and Alabama Tuesday are giving Mitt Romney an opportunity to extend his lead in the Republican presidential race by winning in Southern contests that he has characterized as "a bit of an away game." Voting was under way Tuesday in the two states, with polls set to close at 8 p.m.

Posted on Twitter too - A nice infographic about the social factor in election ad wars.