It’s a New Day

So with the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States just hours away, and as we watch the last few hours of the Bush Administration (oh how nice that sounds!), I thought it would be appropriate to post this video from Will.i.am.  He became famous during the campaign for his “Yes [...]

A Look Back at Obama and London

With the inauguration of Barack Obama just a few days away and the celebreations already under way, I thought it would be nice to look back at London’s small part in the campaign to elect Obama the 44th President of the United States.
Throughout the summer of 2008 a group of Americans got together to hold [...]

A 21st Century Candidate

Barack Obama ran a very successful campaign for the Presidency (obviously!), part of that campaign was his utilisation of a whole host of modern communication techniques.  This ranged from having his own Flickr account giving a behind the scenes look to his campaign, to the effective use of YouTube – on election day alone the [...]

The UK hails Obama victory

So after just two and a half hours sleep I woke up to find out that Obama was still President-elect, it hadn’t all been a dream!  Predictably Obama’s election was all over the front pages of the British press and the story dominated the news all day.  
With BBC News 24 turned on in the [...]

He Did it!!!!

So its nearly 5am in the Uk and I’m about to call it a night knowing that not only is Barack Obama the President Elect, but that he’s won in a big way, bigger than I dared hope for.

My prediction for the electoral college was 330 which frankly I thought was overly-optimistic yet he already [...]