Barack Obama has received a vote of confidence from the Irish public in his bid to stay in the White House. 79 per cent say they would vote for him.

A fundraiser for President Obama is being held in Dublin today. Up to 100 American citizens living in Ireland are expected to attend.

Although most of the talk about Mitt Romney’s infamous Boca Raton video has focused on what he said about the 47% of Americans he claims won’t take responsibility for their lives, his comments on the Mideast also say a lot about the kind of president he would be.
 
Romney said straight out that the situation between Israel and the Palestinians, “is going to remain an unsolved problem.” His remarkable confession of defeat on the Mideast, an abject no mas even before getting himself in the ring, sounds eerily like what many said not too long ago about another seemingly insoluble problem: the centuries old warfare in Northern Ireland.
 
There was in Ireland and Britain an abundance of sage advice that the most that could be hoped for was to maintain the violence at a tolerable level and otherwise muddle through and hope for generational change.

Former Boston Mayor Ray Flynn, a registered Democrat, has recently come out in support of Republican Scott Brown for the Massachusetts Senate race this year. The endorsement has political strategists constructing different scenarios and outcomes for the upcoming election.

Vice President Joe Biden misquoted Irish poet William Butler Yeats during a phone call to a supporter in Iowa. He got both the name of the poem and the last line wrong.

Irish American voters will be turning out in high numbers on Election Day, according to prominent GOP and Democratic supporters.

Americans, roughly half or 144 million of them, will head to the polls this November and more than likely pick either one of two candidates to serve as their chief executive for the next four years. The masses will vote for either the Democrat (Barack O’Bama) or the Republican (Mitt Romney) like they have since 1856. Yet, neither seem to be incredibly popular among voters being tied in most national polls.  In this land of true democracy there are over one hundred hopeful presidential nominees on (and off) voting ballots that do not have the money, cache, or websites in some cases, that their bigger and more powerful donkey and elephant counterparts do. 

The mother of Irish rock legend Phil Lynott has slammed American Presidential candidate Mitt Romney – and all but accused him of robbing her son’s music.

Paul Ryan's speech at the Republican National Convention has been condemned from an unexpected source: Fox News.

Speaking at the launch of the Republican National Convention, Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell continued familiar GOP campaign rhetoric referring to his own family’s roots in Ireland and recreation of “The American Dream.”

Corrigan Brothers, the Irish band whose song “There’s no one as Irish as Barack Obama” has charted all over the world and reached over seven million YouTube hits in different versions, are back with “There’s still no one as Irish as Barack Obama."

The comments made by Congressman Todd Akin which suggested that rape victims have an instinctive ability to prevent their own pregnancies, have made international headlines, reinvigorating Democratic charges of a Republican war on women's rights and leading the Missouri politician to insist he 'misspoke.'