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Monday, February 04, 2008 - Posts

  • Clinton's Counting Game


    After Obama adviser David Plouffe’s spin-credible, twist-tastic, distort-errific memo about expectations for Super Tuesday, any media manipulation coming out of the Clinton campaign today should look relatively tame. Always count on them to surprise. Read More...
  • Expecting Disappointment, Disappointing Expectations


    Last time we checked, expectations didn’t mean anything anymore. Now that the campaign is in a new, delegate-oriented phase, expectations and momentum are supposed to be the artifacts of the early-primary-state days. Expectations mattered in Iowa, New Read More...
  • It's the Final Countdown


    The cable news tickers are going to be in overdrive tomorrow night. With so many states’ results coming in all at once, it’s going to take some restraint for pundits not to extrapolate meaning from early wins on the East Coast. But in this case, all Feb. Read More...
  • That "Yes We Can" Video


    First things first: The new “Yes We Can” video produced by Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am is good. Really good. The song consists entirely of Barack Obama’s words, sung and respoken by will.i.am’s friends, singers, songwriters, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Read More...
  • The Yale Sob


    The latest Is it a story? story is Hillary Clinton’s alleged mistiness/vocal tightening at a morning event at the Yale Child Study Center. Given the effect her Diner Sob had the day before the New Hampshire primary, naturally everyone’s tear-dar is set Read More...
  • Great Moments In The Fray


    We have seen our share of strained Super Bowl/Super Tuesday analogies. This one, from commenter "acptulsa" in the Sports Nut Fray , has to be the best: The media said the Giants couldn't win - Suppose they could be just as wrong about Ron Paul? Read More...
  • What Is Edwards Waiting For?


    When Rudy Giuliani bowed out of the Republican race, it took all of five minutes for news of his McCain endorsement to leak. John Edwards, by contrast, is taking his time. It’s been almost a week since the former senator dropped out of the Democratic Read More...
  • The Super Tuesday Strategy Review


    By Christopher Beam and Chadwick Matlin With Super Tuesday looming, the past week has been as frenzied as any period in the presidential race so far. No longer courting one state at a time, the candidates have burned carbon and cash in record quantities, Read More...
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