Renard Sexton (93 entries)

Recession, Succession, and Secession
Update from Sierra Leone
Introduction to the European Parliament Elections
Party Discipline in the U.S. Senate and European Parliament
Home Stretch of European Parliament Elections; Egg-Pelting Continues
Brits and Dutch Vote Today; Skeptics Leading
Exit Polls and Outrageous Folded Ballots in NL and UK
March of the Greens?
Polling and Voting in Iran’s Friday Election
Iran Does Have Some Fishy Numbers
Recount in Iran?
Iranian Leadership Split On Response
Sanford’s “Hiking” Affair: Spitzer/Edwards, or Giuliani/Vitter?
Sex scandals, le style Français
Obama & Palin: Carpe Diem
The Obama Effect Considered
Let’s Not Kid Ourselves About Aid Flows
Chavismo, Obama and the Monroe Doctrine
Afghanistan Election Heating Up
Obama’s Peril in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan: 2004 results and 2009 Polling
Afghanistan In a Holding Pattern: Abdullah Protests
The Senate was the Right Place For Kennedy
Tide of Change in Japan? A Quick Electoral History
Fraud Changing the Tune in Afghanistan
Players in the Afghanistan Sandbox
German Elections: Afghanistan Issue on the Rise
Party Politics in Germany
Iran Announcement Underscores Complexity
Proportional Voting? Well, Kinda
Afghanistan’s Dangerous (and Expensive) Soap Opera
Obama’s Prize for Peace
Clinton’s Busy Summer
Quietly, Japan Is Changing Course
Afghanistan Audit Doesn’t Look Good For Karzai
For European Integration, Movement and Money Counts
Congressional Foreign Politics
Republicans Far Behind on Women Legislators
American Politics and International Soccer: Who’s the Ref?
Bringing in a Strong Team: Obama vs the EU
Foreigners in Switzerland
Some Key Nuggets of the Afghanistan Strategy Speech
ERASMUS in America (Cultural Integration)
Berlusconi the Survivor
What Republicans Can Learn from French Communists
The Obama Strategy in Black and White
Afghanistan – U.S. Politics in 2010
Politics of Afghanistan Part II
Haiti and United States Inextricably Linked
A Hung Parliament? (From the Gallows, Perhaps?)
Iraq’s Electoral Uncertainty Threatens Fragile Peace
International Affairs Intern w/ FiveThirtyEight
Prime Minister’s Questions: Iraq
Instant Run-Off Proposed by Brown
For UK Conservatives, It’s The MP Ratio That Matters
Livestock Microfinance an Option for the Future?
Karzai’s Newest Power Play
New Feature: UK Election Backgrounders
Iraqi Election Goes Down to the Wire
UK Polling Numbers Not Sufficiently Precise (Yet) to Project
Getting It “Right” on the UK Numbers
538’s UK Coverage in the Guardian
Why Turnout Matters
Consolidate the Base, Then Move to the Center
Selection bias in UK polling (Part 1): Cell phones
Selection Bias in UK Polling (Part 2): Internet Polling
Is the Lib-Dem Surge For Real? (Part 1: The Problem)
Is the Lib-Dem Surge for Real? (Part 3: Strategy)
UK Election: “Frankenstein” Win for Labour Still Possible
The Incumbency Effect in the UK
UK Quick and Dirty
Con-Lib Pact Brings Cameron to PM’s Chair
Is the Lib Dem Surge for Real (Part 4: The meltdown)
Colombian Presidential Election Headed for a Run-off
Colombia Redux: Mockus is in Big Trouble
Belgium: Making Afghan Politics Seem Straightforward
Belgian Election Ushers in Further Uncertainty
Slow Progress in Baghdad: No PM in Place Yet
Santos Wins Convincingly in Colombia
In Europe, the World Cup is Not for Wimps
Kyrgyzstan on the Edge of Even Greater Ethnic Strife
Sarkozy Has a Popularity Problem
Blast in Uganda Underscores a Volatile Region
Friday’s Election in Precarious Burundi
Australian Labor Party in Pole Position
UK: Labour Leadership Battle is Brewing
The ‘International Desk’ is Moving
Palestinian Refugees Get Qualified Right to Work in Lebanon
Complex Formulas Governing the Afghan Elections
The South Sudanese Referendum Won’t Depend on the Diaspora
And the Award for Best Dictator Goes To…
For Canada’s New Democrats, a Cautionary Tale in Britain
Analyzing a Sea Change in Canada