By Gil Troy, HNN, 9-28-08
Both presidential nominees and the American people failed to follow the typical script for the first presidential debate on Friday night — to all their credit. Usually, an hour-and-a-half of policy talk ends up being reduced to a four-word slam, a grimace, a gaffe, a gesture. This time, the debate about [...]
Archive for September, 2008
The Debates: Sweat the Small Stuff, It Can Sway the Election
Posted in HNN Blog, US Presidential Campaign, tagged Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Moderometer, Presidential Debates, Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale on September 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
HNN, 9-24-08
I have often thought that the popular cliché describing war applies to presidential debates as well – long bouts of boredom punctuated by fleeting moments of great drama and sheer terror. Let’s face it. Most debates are dull, with candidates machine-gunning statistics and policy positions at each other at a rapid but mostly incomprehensible [...]
Gil Troy on “A winning formula?”
Posted in Politics, Press, tagged Campaigns, Canada, Gil Troy, Methods, Toronto Star, United States on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CANADA VOTES 2008
Toronto Star, TheStar.com, Sep 21, 2008| Federal Election | A winning formula?
RICK MADONIK/TORONTO STAR
Stéphane Dion visits candiddate Mark Holland’s riding of Ajax-Pickering on September 9, 2008.
The stratagems of the federal campaign often appear ‘as sentimental as they are strategic.’ Research, however, has quantified their impact. Find out how many votes a lawn [...]
McGill on the Move: Lecture with Gil Troy – SOLD OUT
Posted in Press, tagged Gil Troy, Lecture, McGill University on September 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
McGill on the Move: Lecture with Gil Troy – SOLD OUT
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The McGill Alumni Association of Toronto extends a cordial invitation to graduates, family and friends to attend a lecture and reception with Gil Troy, Professor of History, McGill University.
“Understanding How They Run By Seeing How They Ran: A Historian’s Guide to the [...]
Gil Troy on “Campaign Buzz: ‘Herbert Hoover in a blue sweater’”
Posted in Politics, Press, tagged Add new tag, Bob Rae, Campaigns, Canada, Elections, Gil Troy, Hubert Hoover, Ottawa Citizen, Stephen Harper on September 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Canwest News Service
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
At a Halifax rally yesterday, Liberal MP Bob Rae referred to Stephen Harper as “Herbert Hoover in a blue sweater,” adding, “I think we can do better than that.”
Why that’s an insult: Within months of Mr. Hoover assuming the U.S. presidency in 1929, the stock market crashed and sparked the [...]
Montreal Gazette: Leading from the Center Review
Posted in Leading from the Center, Press, Reviews, tagged Book Review, Favorable, Gil Troy, Leading from the Center on September 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Muscular moderates; Gil Troy: Centrists make best Presidents
HUBERT BAUCH, The Montreal Gazette, Saturday, Sptember 13, 2008, WEEKEND: BOOKS; Pg. I6
It’s a pity that this book had to go to press before the tickets for this year’s U.S. presidential election shaped up. It is nevertheless timely, coming as it does at the start of the sprint [...]


