Nick O'Malley
Nick O'Malley is the United States correspondent for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Neck and neck as candidates head for the line
Nick O'Malley A day after the last presidential debate and a fortnight before the deadlocked election, both campaigns hit battleground states yesterday, repeating their killer lines from the night before.
Slick Obama puts rival on the back foot
Nick O'Malley PEORIA, Illinois: Barack Obama dominated the third and final presidential debate in Florida, aggressively deploying detail and sarcasm to portray Mitt Romney as inconsistent on foreign policy.
Obama fixes Romney with bayonet
Nick O'Malley, Peoria, Illinois Barack Obama dominates third and final presidential debate in Florida, aggressively deploying detail and sarcasm to portray Mitt Romney as inconsistent on foreign policy.
Obama on rebound in second US debate
Nick O'Malley, Washington Moments after the second presidential debate ended, US President Barack Obama's team was working to translate a closely fought win into campaigning muscle.
Obama presses his point to draw level
Nick O'Malley WASHINGTON: Moments after the second presidential debate ended, the team of the US President, Barack Obama, was working to translate a closely fought win into campaigning muscle.
Obama must prove he's the Boss
Nick O'Malley, Washington Barack Obama is getting a lot of free advice in the lead-up to the second presidential debate, a town-hall-style contest at Hofstra University on Long Island.
How cash became king of the campaign
Nick O'malley Washington A MONTH before the presidential election, America's political landscape is awash with cash. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been pumped into the election by corporations, unions and...
Super rich cashing in to reshape the world
Nick O'Malley A MONTH before the presidential election, America's political landscape is awash with cash. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been pumped into the election by corporations, unions and...
Rough and tumble debate ends in a draw
Nick O'Malley Joe Biden won't have to live with Barack Obama's regret that he was "too polite" after the vice-president's tussle with the Republican candidate, Paul Ryan.
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Romney faces both ways on foreign policy
Nick O'Malley MITT Romney chose a military base in Virginia to deliver a major foreign policy speech laden with the fiery rhetoric of American exceptionalism and martial nationalism.
Knives out as Romney debate win is forgotten
Nick O'Malley WHEN news broke on Friday that 114,000 Americans had found work in September, parts of the Republican Party's knucklehead faction slumped into the first stage of grief: denial.
Confident Romney wins admirers by defeating great orator Obama
Nick O'Malley It took Mitt Romney just 90 minutes to change the perception that his two-year campaign for the White House had tanked a month before the election.
Win for Romney in first debate
Nick O'Malley Barack Obama, the man considered by many to be the greatest political orator of his generation, was left rambling and flat footed many times during the first presidential debate.
Presidential rivals face off in war of words
Nick O'Malley If you listened to the whispers from the campaigns over the past week, you would think neither believed their candidate had a hope of stringing a full sentence together during the first presidential...
Lecterns at 10 paces: the Mitt and Barack show begins
NICK O'MALLEY Washington: IF YOU listened to the whispers from the campaigns over the past week you would think neither believed their candidate had a hope of stringing a full sentence together during the first...
Early voters key to deciding US presidency
Nick O'Malley The US election could be decided long before election day as the two contenders mobilise to have their supporters take advantage of early voting laws.
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.
World poised to eradicate polio: Bill Gates
Nick O'Malley Bill Gates has congratulated Australia for its $50 million contribution to an international fund to eradicate polio, saying the world is poised at an historic moment.
Gaffe taxes Republican campaign
Nick O'Malley, Washington Analysts are trying to work out which 47 per cent of the population the Republican candidate had just dismissed, and whether it could cost him the election.
