In this week’s issue of dead-tree TIME, which hits the newsstands today, I have a story that looks at the political math underlying all the back and forth over Obama’s comments about small-town voters–specifically, the importance of the white working class vote in this fall’s election.: Working-class whites are a shrinking segment of the overall [...]
In this morning’s Clinton conference call, perennial HRC antagonist Andrea Mitchell pressed the campaign’s spokespeople about Hillary’s firm promise to withdraw from Iraq even if, as Gibson put it, “the military commanders in Iraq came to you on day one and said this kind of withdrawal would destabilize Iraq, it would set back all of [...]
ABC has just put out this news, like it’s, you know, a good thing: Ratings Report: ABC News Programming ABC News-National Constitution Center-WPVI-TV’s Democratic Presidential Debate ABC News’ Debate Is Most-Watched of 2008 Presidential Cycle 10.7 Million Total Viewers Tune In to Democratic Debate Program Outperforms Previous Debate Viewing High by Double Digits Among Total [...]
I missed the first part of the ABC trivia bowl; I assume that’s when they made the disclaimer that George Stephanopoulos used to work for Hillary, right? UPDATE: Not endorsing the contents, just passing along this artifact from the Obamaverse.
I have slightly–well, a microscopic smidgeon–more sympathy for the gotcha-moderators from ABC than Tom Shales does. As Karen points out below, Michael Grunwald does a good job limning the banalities elsewhere on this site. But I think Stephanopoulos and Gibson were doing what journalists do: they picked the most obvious scabs. They asked trivial questions [...]
Don’t miss our colleague Michael Grunwald’s excellent critique.
HRC’s “screw them” (where “them” = working class Democrats) comment is getting all the attention, but I was struck by this contemporaneous statement by Bill: I know how you feel. … It makes me mad too. Sure, we lost our base in the South; our boys voted for Gingrich. But let me tell you something. [...]
