Nick O Malley on Sarah Palin
There will be blood: the US right bites back
Nick O'Malley In American politics making speeches targeted directly at your base, with little or no concern for the niceties of centrism, is known as ''throwing out the red meat''.
Race the flame that spreads Americans' anger
Nick O'Malley COLUMBUS, Ohio: Barack Obama wears the burden of office etched into his face. The comparison is often made between his wan, worn features today and those of the man sworn into office on that bright...
Obama's race to the finish in a divided land
Nick O'Malley, Columbus, Ohio Barack Obama wears the burden of his office etched into his face. The comparison between his wan, worn features today and those of the man sworn into office on that bright day nearly four years ago...
Polarised America: choose your own truth
Nick O'Malley That footage of Mitt Romney dismissing half the US electorate to a room full of wealthy donors that leaked last Monday may turn out to have been a signal moment of the campaign.
Heat on Romney in election speech
Peter Foster and Nick O'Malley, Tampa Mitt Romney was set to deliver a make-or-break speech to America early today putting himself forward as the man who can revive the world's largest economy even as a new poll showed him to be the...
Republicans warm to running mate Ryan
Nick O'Malley It was good enough. Paul Ryan did not provoke the same geyser of excitement that Sarah Palin did four years ago, but in the most important speech of his life the new Republican vice-presidential...
Romney names fiscal conservative Ryan as Republican running mate
Nick O'Malley Paul Ryan, the 42-year-old Wisconsin congressman with close tea party ties and a reputation for wanting to slash taxes and shrink government has been named Mitt Romney’s Republican running mate.
Romney running mate up in air but 'dull' firms as safe bet
Nick O'Malley Discussion of who Republican presidential hopeful's running mate will be has reached fever pitch.
Races still to run but Romney looks a sure bet
Nick O'Malley ''One of my opponents recently said that it would take an act of God for me to win this primary," Rick Santorum told the congregation of an evangelical church in Puerto Rico this week.
Republicans start the search for Mitt's best mate
Nick O'Malley The focus has shifted from who will win the Republican presidential nominee to who will Mitt Romney will pick as his running mate.
