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For the legions of foreign correspondents currently plying their trade in Washington and through the key swing states, the 2008 U.S. presidential election is especially enticing.
But it doesn’t always work. In the British election of 1992, Neil Kinnock ran a similar campaign and lost narrowly to a post-Thatcher Conservative Party which had been in power for 13 years. John Major, who won, succeeded in distancing himself from Mrs. Thatcher, who by...
The same election also revealed that polls can be wrong. In the lead-up to the vote, Kinnock’s Labour Party was running level or slightly ahead in the polls. On Election Day itself the party was defeated by more than seven percent in the popular vote. Research...
The Middle East also provided a third powerful lesson in election reporting: the need to be humble and to resist the temptation to overlay one’s own values on the society being covered.
In 2006, in a rare example of an election in the Arab world which was indisputably free and fair, the Islamist Hamas movement won a shock victory over Fatah, the party which had, in effect, ruled the Palestinian people for a generation. Before the election, much of the coverage by...