You certainly have a creative mind. It makes one wonder what you do for a living.

Smashing title innit? And it’s not a dissertation but a PhD thesis. If you got the breath back, it’s the first page of the second chapter.

La Redoute should have saved you the bother. Tempting though wasn’t it?

In a concession to Daphne’s main thesis, there was no surprise in Obama’s victory, unless one may have been listening to the political media pundits instead.

According to Nate Silver’s methodology, described in his book “The signal and the noise”, Obama had the election advantage over Romney, with an 83.6% probability of being re-elected:

http://thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/wed-november-7-2012-nate-silver?xrs=synd_facebook

According to the model, Obama had the clear statistical advantage, so the election was not as close as many of the Republicans may have desired.

“The Victory Lab” by Sasha Issenberg explains the marketing methodologies which Obama’s campaign used to determine by segmentation analysis how individuals would vote.

That’s how the Obama election team put together their focused campaign and identified their electoral college victory with 51% popular vote.

The title of your dissertation sounds interesting, pity the search yielded no results.

A raconteur’s job is to lie beautifully.

Yes I know that thanks and have already done so. However my complaint was that I still cannot read the news articles etc. properly so I would think that the website is still undergoing some tests.

I can hardly wait for your other treatise on mass emigration in 2013; ‘So long, and thanks for all the fish. What Labour did to the White Rocks’

‘…He was raised by a bourgeois white family…’

Except for the years he spent with his Muslim stepfather in Indonesia.

In any case, this is irrelevant. When one stands for office, what counts is not what one is, but what one is perceived to be.

Obama is of mixed race descent. For those people who care about this, he will always be ‘not one of us’.

And there was Fujimori in Peru. But none of these carry the same historic significance as an African-American becoming President of the US.