A sampling of the campaign spam from the campaigns and national committees in the past twelve hours after the jump; it’ll give you an idea of how campaign are framing stories to the media (Clinton says Obama is a hypocrite!), what narratives they’re pushing (McCain: Inevitable), and who has the biggest press staff (I’m guessing …
Super Tuesday ’08: Journey on a Davenport
Sure, being on the campaign trail has its advantages when it comes to reporting: time with the candidate, access to voters, bonding with your colleagues and prying gossip from staff. But that’s not how most people experience a campaign or make up their minds about a candidate. They experience Super Tuesday the way those of us not on the …
Speaking of Temperament
UPDATE: Some more Mitt stories of interest:
Robert Draper’s wry observations from GQ:
Occasionally, he revealed himself anyway. During one Ask Mitt Anything session in Indianola, Iowa, a young woman in a parka stood up to ask the candidate a question. “What concerns me,” she began as she stood before
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Super Tuesday: The Roadmap
The Democrats have a particularly complicated set of rules, which make it much harder for the candidates to figure out how to approach these primaries, and for the rest of us to figure out even what constitutes a win. This is not a system designed for either clarity or speed. I tried to sort some of it out here.
UPDATE: Commenter …
Rick Santorum Attacks McCain’s “Temperament”
Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, is back in the mix–big time. Over the weekend, he was out in Missouri, stumping for Mitt Romney, who he describes as the only true Reagan-coalition conservative left in the Republican race. As Jon Martin reports over at the Politico, Santorum has also volunteered his services as an attack …
Maria Shriver for Obama!!!
In a shocker surprise endorsement, Maria Shriver — First Lady of California and Ahh-nold’s wife, just showed up at the Michelle Obama, Oprah, Caroline Kennedy rally in Los Angeles.
She’s taking the stage now, more to come.
Update:
Now that I’ve finally made it to LAX…
Shriver, wearing a suede brown western-style jacket, explained …
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Truly Amazing
Have you seen this?
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Today in Iraq
All this talk about a “pause” in the troop reductions has me wondering whether things are starting to go south in Iraq again. First, there’s the obvious: the twin pet-market bombings in Baghdad today apparently carried out by women with Down syndrome. This, I’m sure, will give hawks greater screech when it comes to staying-and-fighting …
Fraud at the NRCC
It’s been six months since the last congressional corruption scandal (ahem, Senator Stevens?). So for those who might have be thinking the Abramoff era was coming to an end, today’s statement out of the National Republican Congressional Committee should perk you up. From NRCC Chairman Tom Cole:
”As part of our ongoing efforts to
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Obama v. McCain
Obama this morning held a press conference with reporters in Los Angeles where he made it clear that he believes that the increasingly likely candidacy of Senator John McCain in the GOP race will help Obama win the Democratic contest. Obama made his case on two fronts. First, that his early opposition to the war in Iraq is much more …
What the National Journal “Liberal” Ranking Really Means
On Thursday afternoon, political reporters across the country received a gushing email from the Republican National Committee, with a big picture of Barack Obama next to the words “Obama: Most Liberal Senator In 2007.” It was a reference to the National Journal, Washington’s big-deal political trade magazine, which released its …
The Youth Vote
In the cover story of the issue of dead-tree TIME that hits newsstands today, our colleague David Von Drehle takes a sharp look at the youth vote. In election and after election, campaigns have talked about getting these elusive voters to the polls, but Barack Obama seems to have found a way to do it–at least in the early contests. …
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The Democratic Debate
Tempted to say: they were both just fine. And leave it at that. But…
1. Clinton is, without question, the better debater, BUT…for those worried about Obama’s lack of experience, he absolutely held his own, seemed a plausible President, not a greenhorn.
2. Clinton had the early advantage because the conversation was about health …