36 hours in Old & Sad
Dave Roberts discusses the experience of campaigning in the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election, which Labour won by 3,558 votes from the Liberal Democrats.
Dave Roberts
Website Dave writes for Left Foot Forward on US politics. He is a political campaigner and consult, and is the director of the strategic communications consultancy Morgan Roberts.
View from the States: Shellacked in South Florida
Tuesday was a good day to be on a Republican ticket and a bad day to be running as a Democrat, but the results are not catastrophic for Obama. In South Florida there is no long term appetite for extremes, but this week’s results demonstrate that the American people don’t like their leaders very much and have relished giving this one a good “shellacking”.
Can the Democrats see off the Tea Party threat in South Florida?
Dave Roberts has hit the US mid-term campaign trail in Southern Florida, where incumbent Democratic Congressman Ron Klein is facing a huge challenge from former-army colonel and Tea Party favourite, Allen West.