by Steve M, Sat May 31, 2008 at 04:53:52 PM EDT
I have never seen such a self-destructive display in politics as what I saw today from the Obama campaign and the members of the RBC.
After all the self-righteous preening about "the rules," after Donna Brazile invoked her mother's lessons about how you have to play by the rules and how people who don't play by the rules are cheaters, she and the other members of the RBC proceeded to ignore every rule in the book.
by johnnygunn, Wed Apr 23, 2008 at 07:29:09 AM EDT
Not to be confused with Spring Break.
Ice Jam on the Yellowstone River - NPS Photo
Anyone who has lived in the Northern Tier from Maine to Minnesota to Montana - and certainly in Canada and Alaska knows what spring breakup is. That's when the ice goes out on the local river. More than anything else, it is the signal of a change in seasons.
by Jerome Armstrong, Sat Aug 04, 2007 at 07:42:06 AM EDT
Yesterday I was on a panel titled "Modern Campaigns" with Joe Trippi and Stephanie Cutter, moderated by Simon Rosenberg. I mostly talked about the difference between a modern run campaign and a traditional campaign, in terms of how the internet impacts the campaign. I'd meant to get into some 2008 examples, but we didn't get that far, so I'll post it here.
I put together this with Adam Conner and Jonathan Singer, of the most memorable/best practices, internet-based, impact moments of the 2008 campaign to date. Here's the list:
2008 Standouts from the Democratic campaigns:
None of them are particularly policy-based, which is interesting, although that probably just means we missed something. The Edwards poverty tour comes to mind, though it's national blogger coverage was not extensive, it was an opportunity to have local bloggers take up the story (though I don't know whether that happened). I'm also wondering what a list of The Biggest Flops would look like?
by Jerome Armstrong, Sat Aug 04, 2007 at 07:02:31 AM EDT
Life is good. Another day, another poll out of Iowa, along with the changes from their May poll:
July May Change
John Edwards 27 26 +1
Hillary Clinton 22 28 -6
Barack Obama 16 22 -6
Bill Richardson 11 7 +4
Joe Biden 3 2 +1
Dennis Kucinich 2 2 0
Chris Dodd 2 2 0
Mike Gravel 1 1 0
Undecided 16 10 +6
The Research 2000 Iowa Poll had these results on the Republican side:
July May Change
Mitt Romney 25 16 +9
Fred Thompson 14 9 +5
Rudy Giuliani 13 17 -4
John McCain 10 18 -8
Newt Gingrich 6 6 0
Mike Huckabee 2 2 0
Tommy Thompson 2 3 -1
Tom Tancredo 2 3 -1
Sam Brownback 2 2 0
Duncan Hunter 1 1 0
Ron Paul 1 - +1
Undecided 22 22 0
Comparing this poll to the one released earlier this week is apples to oranges, but the trendlines here show a strong movement away from the percieved frontrunners by the mainstream press (Clinton, Obama, Giuliani, McCain) based on the national polls, toward the second tier (nationally polled) candidates, and toward undecided.
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