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Sunday, Jan 18, 2004
swingers
"There is a widespread misperception that the course of a presidential campaign flows directly from the candidate's persona. Naturally, a Howard Dean campaign would differ in style and atmospherics from one featuring Wesley Clark or John Kerry or Richard Gephardt. But with so little room to maneuver, the Democratic formula for victory will depend less than ever on the identity of the nominee. Instead it will be dictated by geographic and demographic necessity—how best to cobble together the necessary 270 electoral votes. The candidate must carry a sufficient number of swing states, and success in each one will depend on highly specific combinations of constituencies and issues—many of which can already be identified. In other words, just as the genetic blueprint for human beings and chimpanzees is 95 percent identical, the campaign blueprint for the Democratic candidates will be nearly the same, regardless of which becomes the party's nominee."
ken e bunksport
another article by ken pollack. this time for his peeps at the council on foreign relations.
Friday, Jan 16, 2004
mcgruff
"Jan. 16, 2004 | LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Howard Dean received significantly more criticism on network newscasts than the other Democratic presidential contenders, who were the subjects of more favorable coverage, according to a study released Thursday"via campaigndesk
dean's list
"The second complaint involves Dean's personality. The argument is that he is too combative. This always struck me as odd. How can Democrats object to a combative person running against an incumbent president who tells the world: "Bring 'em on!" Do they think they can beat Bush with a wimp? With some guy who says, "On the one hand this, and on the other hand that?" I, for one, relish the sight of Howard Dean - his wrestler's neck bulging - taking on the president after Bush tries to tell us that record deficits don't matter, that Saddam Hussein bombed the World Trade Center or that a time of constant terror alerts is a safer world. Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, in endorsing Dean, called him the Harry Truman of the 21st century. Truman was a feisty little plain-speaking man - and a great president."
desk job
CampaignDesk: Critique and analysis of 2004 campaign coverage from Columbia Journalism Review
wlib
"The much-discussed liberal radio network, designed to challenge conservatives' dominance of talk radio, took its first steps toward reality yesterday, when newly formed Progress Media announced it had both signed comedian and author Al Franken to host his own talk show and completed its first distribution deal in a major market."
le cafe du schwag
mon dieu, j'espère qu'ils échouent malheureux.
just call me richard
i dont know what strikes me as more odd -- that parents whose last name is Held would name their son Richard or that someone possessing that name would refer to themselves as Dick. who goes through life proclaiming themselves to be Dick Held?
Thursday, Jan 15, 2004
des moans
zogby poll has kerry "overtaking" dean in iowa
rubin sandwich
"brad delong explains how paul o'neill could have been as effective as robert rubin."