Godfrey Hodgson was director of the Reuters' Foundation Programme at Oxford University, and before that the Observer's correspondent in the United States and foreign editor of the Independent. He reported the presidential elections of 1964, 1968, 1972, and 1976 for various British and American media, and was co-author (with Lewis Chester and Bruce Page) of the best-selling account of the 1968 campaign, An American Melodrama (Viking Press, 1969). Among his other books are The World Turned Right Side Up: a history of the conservative ascendancy in America (Houghton Mifflin, 1996); The Gentleman from New York: Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Houghton Mifflin, 2000); and More Equal Than Others: America from Nixon to the new century (Princeton University Press, 2006).

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The Obama-Clinton contest could yet be decided by unelected Democratic Party officials. The very possibility reveals the burden of history the party carries, says Godfrey Hodgson.

A single word dominates the presidential race in the United States. But it will take more to end the conservative ascendancy, says Godfrey Hodgson.

What do Americans want when they say they want change - and is it already too late to for the election to deliver it? Godfrey Hodgson examines the unsettled mood of a dissatisfied United States public.

The American political elite's lighthouse-beam of attention is fixed on Pakistan. That's part of a wider problem, says Godfrey Hodgson.

Elections in the United States express the national mood as well as make a political choice. Godfrey Hodgson reads the current presidential race for signs of change.