While Canadian news outlets report as their main story the fact that some of their reporters weren't invited to a Conservative press briefing, there's interesting politics going on in the greater Anglosphere.
Aside from tomorrow's do-or-die Pennsylvania primary, across the pond, Londoners will go to the polls in a little over a week to elect a new mayor. The London mayor race has been fraught with excitement. "Red" Ken Livingstone, the two-term leftist incumbent, has been stunned by the out-of-nowhere rise of Tory MP Boris Johnson's maverick campaign to unseat him. Polls show Johnson in the lead, but the margin has been shrinking.
Johnson is a pretty unique character -- definitely not your typical Tory. The former editor of London's Spectator magazine, he's an aloof, bicycle-riding, nutty-professor type of guy who was laughed at when he first declared his candidacy for mayor. But he has run a stellar campaign (with some humor thrown in for good measure) and has tapped into a desire for change in the city.
It will be interesting to see if he pulls this off because he is running a campaign similar in tone to the one that David Cameron, the not-so-conservative leader of the British Tories, has been using for the past few years. Johnson's result might be a useful portent for the upcoming British national election.
Good luck to him!
# posted by Adam Daifallah : 10:02 PM
