Month: April 2008
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Technical problems fixed
Apologies for the pirate snafu, which seems to be over. If you went to brendan-nyhan.com in the last two days, you saw one of my “Pirate Captain” posts instead of the regular homepage (that’s why Google is currently displaying an awesome banner ad for a pirate website in the left sidebar). I still have no
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The problems with superdelegate indecision
Matthew Yglesias comments on the need for Democratic superdelegates to make up their mind: Ambinder says “given that undecided superdelegates have said that their primary criterion for determining who they’ll choose is who has the best chance of beating John McCain in the fall, there’s no real reason for those superdelegates to choose in June.
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Obama’s sports talk strategy?
Given Barack Obama’s well-known weaknesses among downscale white men, his campaign seems to be trying to use sports to help him appear to be more of a regular guy. In addition to playing more basketball on the campaign trail (he’s reportedly pretty good), Obama appeared on a local sports talk station this morning here in
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The new DNC McCain ad
For the record, Josh Marshall is once again wrong in describing the new DNC ad against John McCain as “[c]ompletely honest.” McCain said he’d be ok with US troops staying in Iraq 100 years “[a]s long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed.” That may be unrealistic, but the ad
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The Gore-ization of Obama
Chris Matthews, who was last seen critiquing the way Barack Obama ordered orange juice in a diner, is now obsessed with the idea that Obama can’t connect with people in a diner: A week after claiming that Sen. Barack Obama “can’t walk into a dinette [sic] with five or six guys there, white guys, in
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Hacked by pirates?
For some reason, my main page is defaulting to a 2006 post about the attempted impeachment of the NC State student body president known as the “Pirate Captain.” Not sure what’s going on — maybe there are some pirate hackers out there? Anyway, I’ve asked Typepad for help, but in the meantime, just click on
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The WWE’s faux Hillary-Obama match
I didn’t know this — the New York Times reports that after the presidential candidates made their embarassing appearances on WWE’s “Monday Night Raw,” the league staged a match between Obama and Hillary impersonators: Trust me: it’s worse than you imagine.
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Hillary’s Holocaust metaphor
Can we put a moratorium on Hillary Clinton using a poem about the Holocaust to talk about free trade and outsourcing? Talk about inappropriate metaphors… At the union hall in Gary, she grew so animated in describing the plight of old-line industrial workers that she described them in language from the oft-repeated poem, attributed to
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NYT “objectivity” on candidates & the budget
Here’s a New York Times lede that annoys me: 3 Candidates With 3 Financial Plans, but One Deficit By LARRY ROHTER and MICHAEL COOPER The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates differ strikingly in their approaches to taxes and spending, but their fiscal plans have at least one thing in common: each could significantly swell the
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Scandals in the primary and the general
One aspect of the media’s failure to distinguish between primary and general elections is the way that they fail to differentiate between the types of criticisms candidates face in each stage of the campaign. On Monday night, Jon Stewart asked Barack Obama this semi-facetious question that captures one aspect of this misunderstanding: Senator Clinton’s response