Eddy Evans
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Political staffer in Ontario, Canada. Former public affairs consultant in Washington D.C. and London.

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The Republican Path to 2016

(1) Comments | Posted 11 November 2012 | (22:52)

2012 could prove to be the best thing that ever happened to the Republican Party.

The obituaries written this week for the Grand Old Party are of course premature.

Republican optimists could with some legitimacy claim that it only fell around 100,000 votes short of the presidency and retained a...

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This Election Can't Just Be About the Economy

(0) Comments | Posted 30 August 2012 | (02:27)

The vast majority of the world's population won't get a vote in the race between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to be the world's most powerful person.

Yet the result of the presidential election in November matters to many of us beyond America's borders. Whether you live in Kabul, Damascus...

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Mitt Romney Missed a Golden Opportunity in London

(1) Comments | Posted 1 August 2012 | (04:38)

Unlike Olympic athletes, politicians are allowed to make mistakes.

Most people are far more forgiving than the media vultures circling around any perceived "gaffe" on the campaign trail.

The voters in America's swing states are unlikely to remember or frankly care much about Mitt Romney's undiplomatic response when he was...

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Memo to GOP: Conservatives Win

(2) Comments | Posted 6 January 2012 | (10:49)

There's always endless chatter during every primary season about which candidate represents which wing of the party, which corner of the party's big tent each of them occupy and who will be the standard bearer for each constituency. In the case of the GOP the question is who will represent...

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