Town Hall

Prime Time President?

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Are the polls to be believed? Will Obama win? With just one day to go, the world seems focused on little else really. Major news sites such as CNN , BBC and USA Today have given Obama a clear lead in pre poll um.. polls. Both candidates have upped the ante in this final push, but Obama really outdid himself by taking out a 30 minute commercial across...

Will race cause Obama's fall?

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Will race swing the US election despite all the Obama - mania? Are Americans ready to vote in a black man, or will they change their mind at the last instance? As the US election draws closer, the discussions seem to have veered back towards race. Adding fuel to debate, is the Bradley effect, which is a theory for observed discrepancies between voter...

The Muslim Question

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The marginalisation of the Muslim community, especially in the run up to the elections has been a disturbing yet prominent feature in the US. Mint's Melissa Bell brought up the issue in our LiveJournal Community , where she mentioned how both presidential hopefuls did not condemn an incident in which someone threw gas into the nursery of a mosque...

Discourses on Terror...

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Our LiveJournal Community on the upcoming US Elections have thrown up some pretty interesting discussions and points of view, that we would love for you to be a part of as well. In our last post, we showed you some of the responses we had received from the community with regards to American public perceptions on the outsourcing of jobs to countries...

Speaking of the US Elections...

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Welcome to Town Hall ! As of last Friday, livemint has been actively hosting a community on LiveJournal - designed to facilitate discussion about November's US Presidential Election . The Mint team has been blogging, raising questions, answering queries and participating in discussions on a number of issues, including outsourcing and India, and...