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McCain takes aim: To judge by his victory speech after the Potomac primaries, John McCain expects to be fighting Obama in November
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Clive Crook is the FT’s chief Washington commentator.
For ten years, before moving to the United States in 2005, he was deputy editor of The Economist, and before that the magazine’s economics editor, Washington correspondent and economics correspondent.
Previously he was an official in HM Treasury. He was born in Yorkshire, raised in Lancashire, and educated at Bolton School, Magdalen College, Oxford, and the London School of Economics.
In addition to writing for the FT he is a senior editor at The Atlantic Monthly and a columnist with National Journal.
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Why Democrats must choose Obama
What makes Barack Obama remarkable is that his message of hope, resonating so powerfully with black America, is cast to every American, regardless of colour, to Democrats and Republicans alike, writes Clive Crook
For once, it is all about electability
While Barack Obama’s bipartisan overtures have disappointed many Democratic activists, the core electorates on both sides are putting winning above ideology, says Clive Crook
US economy brings worries for both parties
Much as the slowdown may discredit the Bush administration, it does not automatically favour Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama, writes Clive Crook
A fiscal stimulus offers limited help
In spite of an imminent fiscal stimulus, the heavy lifting on stabilising the US economy will continue to be done by the Fed. The good news is that it still has room to cut rates. The bad news is that confidence continues to plunge, writes Clive Crook
America in 2008: Populism calls the shots
As the country heads for an election, public sentiment is shaping the economic policies of both parties, writes Clive Crook
Democrats’ big ideas yielded small results
If you add it all up and multiply by 10, the Democrats’ November 2006 victory still achieved much less than a seismic shift, writes Clive Crook
Obama learns a party trick from Blair
Even as he surges back into the race for his party’s nomination, the candidate is annoying Democratic activists with his calls for a new consensual style of politics, but it doesn’t seem to be doing him any harm, writes Clive Crook
The trouble with the Paulson plan
As the housing slump worsens, the US Treasury secretary’s home loans deal will increasingly be deemed unfair and inadequate, says Clive Crook
Fannie and Freddie are here to stay
The first order of business must be to soften, so far as possible, the US housing market crunch and the recession that might follow. If, for now, that means a bigger role for the semi-public entities behind the secondary mortgage market, so be it, writes Clive Crook
Iraq sets a new trap for Democrats
If the party is to avoid accusations of wanting the US to fail, or of wishing to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory, it must tread carefully, writes Clive Crook
