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US Politics Digest: Obama announces cabinet picks, Biden prepares gun control package and more

Obama rolls out cabinet nominations President Obama has announced his nominees for key cabinet vacancies, including secretary of defence, secretary of the treasury and director of the Central Intelligence Agency. At a White House press conference on Thursday, Obama unveiled White House chief of taff Jacob Lew as his choice to replace incumbent treasury secretary Tim Geithner. [...]

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Cameron warned over EU again, this time by the US

David Cameron’s stance on Europe has come repeatedly under fire recently. Yesterday, Left Foot Forward reported on both business leaders and Ireland having criticised Cameron’s wish to renegotiate terms with the EU. Business leaders criticised the tenacity of his beliefs, saying that whilst they agreed on the need for some reform (for example, on the [...]

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Recruit, retain, inspire: The lessons of the Ohio campaign for the UK

Sam Bacon presents a first-hand account of what was done on the ground in Ohio to win the key swing state and thus the election for President Barack Obama.

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Review: Nate Silver’s “The Signal And The Noise”: The lessons it holds

Stephen Henderson reviews Nate SIlver’s book “The Signal And The Noise”, looking at the lessons it holds.

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Watch: Jon Stewart rips Fox’s election night sewer of unreality

Watch Jon Stewart re-live Fox News’s unreal election night displeasure.

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“The best is yet to come” – but gridlock looms…

The historic 2012 Obama re-election newspaper front pages.

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Election 2012′s funniest moment? Trump’s Twitter meltdown

Donald Trump’s election night Twitter meltdown.

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“An open, united America engaged on the international scene” – the world welcomes Obama’s win

After a vicious, long and costly election campaign, world leaders react to President Obama’s re-election.

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Five lessons for the UK from Obama’s victory

Will Straw presents five lessons for the UK from Barack Obama’s 2012 US Presidential election victory.

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US 2012: The diseconomy of the cost of American elections

After the most expensive presidential election ever (more than one billion dollars was spent), Cormac Hollingsworth look at how efficient all the spending was.

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