Here is an article I wrote a few days ago after the U.S. presidential campaign for the newspaper Sciences Po Aix, "The Aixhaustif" . I was limited to 2000 characters so it was very brief treatment of the subject: my thoughts on the presidential campaign.
This weekend is the fall break, I'd be in New York and maybe I will blog. Hey, I like this photo from the last debate, it illustrates the situation McCain even if he sought to actually shake hands with the presenter
Ann Arbor, home of the University Michigan is in many respects a kind of almost-island in this state industrial crisis Rost Belt, the belt of rust. Democratic stronghold, has seen born pell-mell Iggy Pop, the movement of houses student cooperatives, Affirmative Action in Universities, Peace Corps - a government agency created by Kennedy working for peace in the Third World. Advocate for Barack Obama comes here to preach to the converted. No way to walk 50 feet on campus without being stopped by a volunteer in charge of voter registration of new voters.
side McCain, on campus, it is more discreet. The few Republicans I met lean toward McCain by tradition, partisan identification or famous paradigm of Michigan (see political science course trains). Sarah Palin has definitely discredited. His dreams of "shining cities were hill", his identification with the "hockey mum", these at-home mothers who accompany their children to sport, are attracting more voters laugh student.
The reality of this campaign, I saw her at a rally of Barack Obama at 40 km from here in Detroit, the poorest city in the United States. Walking through the Motown has a small side lost civilization. The buildings at the extravagant architecture have for many of the empty floors, tagged, with broken windows. Empty subways, sewers, poorly maintained and smells nice, reminiscent of the crisis in the automotive industry and its new poor. Some districts are even beginning to be overtaken by the forest, uninhabited. But on this day of Labor Day parade, where unions, the heart of the city back to life. Obama campaigners came by the thousands to see their idol, many African-Americans gave them hope in politics. Religiously, they sing with fervor "Yes we can! . Obama t-shirt, some kitsch flake with a picture of Obama hugging couple, fans remind me of Johnny rather than militants. A quarter of speeches me enough to see the admiration and hope that the classes are desperate to Detroit for the Democratic candidate.
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