Saturday, January 5, 2008

Campaign Notes

Here are some campaign notes:

Mitt Romney won the Wyoming Caucuses today, overwhelmingly, with about 70 percent of the vote: ["Romney Wins Wyoming Caucuses"]. Duncan Hunter and Fred Thompson both received one delegate each. Interesting that Romney's son owns a ranch there.

The phone calls are continuing. More polls, more ringing, boy is this getting annoying.



The front page of the Hippo this week. Notice anything strange about this front page? See below if you don't.

Wondering about media coverage? This guy over at DailyKos has some very interesting analysis: ["The corporate media blackout of John Edwards gets worse"]. Charts! Graphs! What a great job, assuming it is accurate!!

Potential Green Party candidates, including Ralph Nader, have agreed to appear at a debate in California next week: ["Green Party USA Debate on 13-1-2008"].

More proof that "Grandpa" Fred is pretty lazy: ["Fred Thompson: I'm skipping New Hampshire"]. Eh, OK, I guess. But, you know, you could have at least done an event or two today.

This is pretty cool: Dennis Kucinich has his own news program.


I think this is a cool idea and, actually, was very professionally produced.

The Hippo has a pretty funny cartoon on the cover of the Jan. 3-9 edition: "Life of the Party" features most of the presidential candidates in a cartoon.
Interestingly, there are five Republicans on the cover: Giuliani, McCain, Romney, Huckabee, and Paul; and two Democrats: Hillary and Obama. There is another man, in a white shirt holding a wine glass up with a lampshade on his head. No John Edwards. Why is there no John Edwards? Is it because the publisher of the Hippo, Jody Reese, doesn't like Edwards, as noted in this spotty cheap hot editorial from a few weeks ago?: ["Not Edwards"].
What Reese either doesn't know or doesn't acknowledge is that the health plans forwarded by Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton are virtually the same as Edwards'. Also, on the inside, they list where all the candidates' parties are ... all the parties, except Edwards'. They even list where Mike Gravel's party is. Wow.
And, to update the previous post about Greg Chase's ad buys for Gravel, yeah, there is another full color back page ad promoting Gravel's campaign in the Hippo.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent points about the debate. Acropolis Review raises some interesting questions about Al Gore's endorsement

http://acropolisreview.com/2008/01/al-gores-endorsement.html

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Tony said...

Editor's Note: I deleted a comment from this section after re-reading it and realizing that it contained "information" which I was not comfortable having on my site.