After a couple of campaign commercials in which Hillary Clinton insisted that she - and only she - was the ideal person to call in the event of a housing crisis at 3am, her team has decided to take a fresh approach on the newest advert. Previous commericals, you see,… read more…

Running for Democratic Party leader must be a stressful old game. Sometimes, Westmonster expects, Hillary and Barack must want nothing more that to put their feet up, crack open a cold brewski and merrily sip their concerns away. Before gulping the entire bottle whole and then reaching for six… read more…

It must be frustrating when - as a politician - someone keeps questioning you about an issue you'd like to avoid. A prime example being, of course, Jeremy Paxman's head-to-head with Michael Howard on Newsnight, in which the same question was asked so many times it began to resemble… read more…

Should Barack Obama win the Democratic nomination for U.S. president, he'll need all the help he can get to beat John McCain in the fall. Apparently all too aware of this fact is John Cleese — ex-Monty Python, ex-Basil Fawlty — and he's offering to do something about it. In… read more…

What with the persistent Obama/Clinton face-off snaring the majority of the headlines, it's easy to forget that the Democratic Party leadership contest is simply a prelude to another event - the small matter of an American general election. There's a very real chance that Republican candidate John McCain could… read more…

Hilary Clinton has churned out a sequel to her much-maligned '3am ringing phone' commercial. Check out the mini-Halloween horrorshow below:… read more…

Despite the fact that the Democrat leadership battle is turning daily into the sort of tussle you'd see in a borstal exercise yard, it's nice to see that Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama can at least come together on one thing. That thing being: disliking John McCain. Clinton and… read more…

Things are getting a bit nasty in the Dems race, as this blog discovered:… read more…

It seems to have been accepted with some pretty calm praise. It starts slow, but builds up. Apologies for the ad at the beginning, but this is the cleanest version we've found. Our take? The delivery is oddly, almost artificially flat. The format doesn't lend itself to grandstanding. The mike… read more…

Even 231 years after callously throwing the King overboard, the colonies still can't seem to let go of Britain — we've even become an issue in their Presidential campaign. This time, participants in the Northern Ireland peace process are being called upon to confirm or refute Hillary Clinton's attempt to… read more…