https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/ en-us Copyright 2006 Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:06:27 +0000 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss There was frustration with Iraq and concern about corruption - but you could argue that the real clincher for the Democrats, in the Senate at least, was the presence of mind of a young American of Indian descent. When Virginia’s... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/11/macaca_moment.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/11/macaca_moment.html Jamie Coomarasamy Fri, 10 Nov 2006 17:06:27 +0000 It's a pretty wet and gloomy morning here in northern Virginia - rainy, overcast, and pretty depressing for the folks here. And it's depressing because they voted in record numbers (for mid-term elections) here, but they still don't know who... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/11/a_gloomy_morning.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/11/a_gloomy_morning.html Jamie Coomarasamy Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:13:41 +0000 While the focus on Iraq suggests that national issues will have more of an impact than usual on what are essentially local elections, in South Dakota, a vote on a local law could have a nationwide impact. Among a rather... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/11/abortion_battle_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/11/abortion_battle_1.html Jamie Coomarasamy Fri, 03 Nov 2006 18:50:03 +0000 All you American politicians looking for the right hair, the right suit, the right teeth, forget your fancy Washington image consultants and pay a visit to Bill Graves. He's the barber of Jon Tester - the Democrat trying to dislodge... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/10/the_buzz_in_montana_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/10/the_buzz_in_montana_1.html Jamie Coomarasamy Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:02:08 +0000 A friend of mine who first covered Virginia politics more years ago than he'd care to remember refers to six-term Congressman Tom Davis as a "walking political encyclopaedia". But when I hooked up with him at the weekend, he was... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/10/suckers_in_virginia_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/10/suckers_in_virginia_1.html Jamie Coomarasamy Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:38:14 +0000 A shocking statistic from the latest Pew/AP mid-term poll. Only 30% of African-Americans think that their votes will be counted correctly - down from 47% at the last election. Lingering doubts about how votes were tallied in Ohio in 2004... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/10/whose_votes_count_1.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/10/whose_votes_count_1.html Jamie Coomarasamy Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:43:00 +0000 If the main consequence of the Foley furore is to drain the energy from the Republicans' socially conservative Republican base and increase the number of what the influential conservative strategist, Paul Weyrich, has called "embarrassed Republicans", the party may be... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/10/a_call_to_arms.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/10/a_call_to_arms.html Jamie Coomarasamy Mon, 09 Oct 2006 21:32:20 +0000 I have a degree in modern languages (Russian and French) from Trinity Hall, Cambridge and I began my BBC career as a locally hired fixer/producer in Moscow in 1991 (just after the August coup). I stayed in Moscow until January... https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/10/jamie_coomarasamy.html https://nontonwae.pages.dev/blogs/thereporters/jamie_coomarasamy/2006/10/jamie_coomarasamy.html Jamie Coomarasamy Mon, 02 Oct 2006 11:00:00 +0000