Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] the six/nine/ten/twelve member-states failed to sign up to everything together. Indeed, Major’s opt-outs were the template for the four subsequent Denmark-specific optouts that persuaded the Danes to vote ‘Yes’ a second time round). Two, the Danish ‘No’ spooked the currency markets, which smelled weakness in terms of ERM members’ commitment to stick to the […]
Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015)
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Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] are still in charge of the party. This became open when Mrs May refused to answer the question put to her by Iain Dale: ‘How would you vote now if there was a referendum on leaving the EU?’68 Meanwhile, at the Labour Party conference, Jeremy Corbyn announced that Labour’s policy would be to guarantee […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] ops by the Russians;64 a presidential candidate many Democrats didn’t want, and a poor Democratic Party campaign – despite all that Hilary Clinton still won the popular vote. Illing thinks that people are overwhelmed by competing narratives about events – that right and left are in self-reflecting, echochambers of sources; and that this is […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Cola. The underlying assumption of focus group research is that what (sometimes) works for consumer markets must be transferable to the political market place, since casting a vote is a matter of individual choice, like having a preference for a soft drink. Political focus groups are thus an important part of turning politics into […]
Lobster Issue 72 (Winter 2016)
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[PDF file]: […] evidence from Arizona, New York, and California suggests more than 500,000 registrations were tampered with or improperly handled….hundreds of thousands of voters were denied the right to vote or were forced to vote provisionally. A quarter million or more provisional or affidavit Democratic ballots were not counted. Available evidence also suggests that the vast […]
Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)
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[PDF file]: […] its tastes were became apparent in April 1967 when Radio 270 gave up a significant part of its air time to political broadcasts – advocating that people vote Conservative in the May 1967 municipal elections. These broadcasts were made by Patrick Wall MP – who also spoke frequently on air in favour of supporting […]