A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.

A bill in the House of Representatives would change the 14th amendment to the US Constitution that grants anyone who is born on US soil the right of American citizenship. Efforts to revoke birthright citizenship could make it the new flashpoint in the debate over immigration. The bill, if passed, would bring the US more into line with current European birthright policies. But in the wake of the controversy over Arizona’s new immigration policy, any changes to the 14th amendment would likely become another flashpoint in the debate over illegal immigrants. What do you think?

UPDATE AUGUST 2ND In our Poll the Coalition is well ahead of Labor 32% to 21% and the Greens are a stand out 23% and the Demorats are 15% BUT we are too early in our development to get a meaningful response on a poll like this. One day we will have the numbers to really weigh in. The ABC has a good Poll of Polls at campaignpulse.abc.net.au which shows all the individual polls plus the average which is running 50:50 Labor v Coalition so a very tight race at present.

A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.

Australia Federal Election August 21st
Australia goes to the polls to elect a new leader on Saturday August 21st. Australia’s first female PM Julia Gillard, leader of the Australian Labor Party, who ousted Kevin Rudd, has called the election to seek a mandate to govern in her own right. Tony Abbot who leads the Liberal/National Coalition is fighting to be PM. Australia does not have direct presidential style elections so leader of the party with most seats in the lower house becomes PM. Which party gets your vote? Vote here.

Election Preview: (from ABC)
It is only three years since Kevin Rudd led Labor to victory at the 2007 election, but the pace of events in recent months makes it seem further ago in time. Who could have predicted three years ago that the 2010 election would be fought between Labor’s second Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and third-turn Liberal Leader Tony Abbott? Indeed, who would have predicted this turn of events twelve months ago when Kevin Rudd had a commanding opinion poll lead over Malcolm Turnbull? The pace of leadership change in the last three years has been breath taking. Labor’s sweep to victory in 2007 was historic. It came after the Howard government had twice bucked the usual rule of Australian politics for governments to lose support over time. The Coalition’s vote and parliamentary majority increased at both the 2001 and 2004 elections, the latter election seeing Labor’s support collapse in critical mortgage belt seats. The 2004 result left the Labor Party needing a swing of 5% to achieve government at the 2007 election. Read the full article here.

Wikipedia entry here.

A new Politics poll has been created.

The top US military commander in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, has been dismissed by President Barack Obama after critical comments about senior US officials in a magazine.

He will be replaced by Gen David Petraeus, who led the “surge” strategy in Iraq.

What do you think? Was Obama right to fire him? Vote here

UPDATED June 20th 2300 Bogotá time
Governing party candidate Juan Manuel Santos has won the final round of Colombia’s presidential elections. With almost all the votes counted, Mr Santos had won 69% of the ballots and was more than 40 points ahead of his rival – Green Party candidate Antanas Mockus. Mr Santos shares outgoing President Alvaro Uribe’s tough line on security. Click here for BBC article

A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.

In the first round of polling on May 30th,2010 Juan Manuel Santos gained a commanding vote with 46.56% however not an outright majority so there will be a run off on June 20th, 2010 against Antanas Mockus who polled 21.49%. Who is your pick?

A new Politics/Elections poll has been created.

Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona signed the nation’s toughest bill on illegal immigration into law recently. Its aim is to identify, prosecute and deport illegal immigrants. Some say it goes too far, some say it’s about time, others say it’s unconstitutional. What do you think?