Sarah Palin as the economic populist and traditional American values candidates will be very appealing by the time we get to 2012.Why is she thinking so far ahead of her VP Slot, the article pointedly remarks on some problems between Palin and McCain:
The discomfort between the two can be palpable. Chuck Todd, the NBC News political director, was in the room when Brian Williams interviewed Palin and McCain recently. “There was a tenseness,” Todd said later. “When you see the two of them together, the chemistry is just not there. You do wonder, is John McCain starting to blame her for things? Blaming himself? Is she blaming him?
I am guessing one and three. John McCain is blaming Palin for demonstrating her inexperience and lack of knowledge. And Palin is blaming McCain for running what she views as a bad campaign — a campaign that did not go after Barack Obama over the Rev. Jeremiah Wright and did not exploit Obama’s statement about how small-town people “cling” to guns and religion — and for never picking a clear message that had any traction with voters.
Indeed, no single narrative dominated last week’s coverage. The top storyline, the fight over battleground states, accounted for 10% of the campaign newshole from Oct. 20-26, according to the Campaign Coverage Index from the Pew Research Center’s Project For Excellence in Journalism. That’s the lowest level of coverage for any leading weekly narrative since the general election campaign began in early June.
| Percent of Campaign Newshole | |
| Swing State Strategy | 9.6% |
| Economy as an Issue | 8.2 |
| McCain v. Obama Polls | 6.1 |
| Colin Powell Endorses Obama | 5.9 |
| Campaign Fundraising | 4.6 |
| Obama Visits his Grandmother | 4.1 |
| Foreign Policy | 3.8 |
| Total Number of Campaign Stories = 649 | |
An examination of legal documents and election filings, along with interviews with his acquaintances, revealed Mr. Martin, 62, to be a man with a history of scintillating if not always factual claims. He has left a trail of animosity — some of it provoked by anti-Jewish comments — among political leaders, lawyers and judges in three states over more than 30 years.Well as it happens to be, he is also the man who has been one of the leaders in spreading smears and lies about Obama.
Shine told Kurtz. "We obviously didn't do enough research on who the guest was.This is stunning, FOX news is apologizing and admitting they were wrong for having a fear mongering guest on....imagine if they did that more often..they would have no more guests.
Even more questionable is the ban of more editorials, according to Media Matters:Like lots of major dailies, the Strib has been buffeted in recent years by staff cutbacks and accusations of a liberal bias. It seems that the effects of both are on display in the Franken/Coleman campaign.
Newsroom cutbacks make it more difficult to provide smart, in-depth election coverage. Perhaps more telling at the Strib, though, has been the long-running war conservatives have waged against the paper, led by bloggers such as Ed Morrissey, Hugh Hewitt, and those at Power Line.
While this may have been the editor's decision to make, I think there are some questionable journalistic practices going on at this paper. How can you possibly say, no more editorials on the election, in such an important election cycle?Adding to the irony (or the double standard; take your pick) was the fact that Please, people, no partisanship memo was distributed the very same day the Star Tribune printed a front-page article about GOP operative Jeff Larson, who found himself at the center of the Sarah Palin shopping spree scandal. (It was Larson's credit card that got burned up by Neiman Marcus to the tune of $75,000, courtesy of the Palin camp.)
Larson just happens to be one of the closest and most-connected Minnesota political allies of Franken's Republican opponent, Sen. Norm Coleman. But rather than present the story as an embarrassment to Coleman, the Strib's article about Larson was a valentine, complete with "Clark Kent" in the headline.
Liberals hate real Americans that work and accomplish and achieve and believe in God.
"I can guarantee that he said that," local reporter Josh Lanier, who was at the event, tells The Crypt. "I didn’t get the 100 percent exact quote but it was something along the lines of 'liberals hate America — people who work hard, achieve, love God.' That’s pretty much exactly what he said, but I didn’t get it exactly, which is why I didn’t use it."Christopher Schuler, who also said he attended the event, sent this e-mail into the The Crypt: "I was at the arena Saturday morning in Concord and heard Rep. Hayes say it. It was around 10:30 a.m. Taken back by it at first, but the entire crowd was loving it."
We suppose that means Sara Gregory of the Daily Tar Heel gets the scoop, though she ended up not mentioning it in her write-up of the event.
Earlier this year, an article from Politico announced "What nobody who follows the daily cut and thrust of American politics questions is Drudge's continuing power to drive the stories and shape the narratives that define presidential politics," Ecohing these sentiments was WashingtonPost.com's Chris Cillizza who labeled him the "single most influential source for how the presidential campaign is covered in the country."
...it's obvious that since Wall Street's meltdown commenced five weeks ago, and since America's economic crisis became a tsunami of a news story that's not only dominated the media landscape, but also irrevocably altered the course of the campaign, the Drudge Report has become largely irrelevant in terms of the setting the news agenda for the White House run.Bohlert's commentary that Drudge is losing his influence is mimicking voters, who are now more concerned about issues, especially those that effect their wallet, then sex, lies and scandal. Drudge is failing to drive the dialogue because his stories now seem irrelevant to the issues facing the nation. But how long will this last?That's because a story like the unfolding credit crisis -- sober and complicated -- knocks Drudge completely out of his element of frivolous, partisan gotcha links.
The lack of media attention to the Liddy-McCain relationship is one of the clearest double standards in recent political history....... until last night, McCain hadn't been asked a single question* about his ties to Liddy, a convicted felon who has instructed his listeners on how best to shoot law-enforcement agents. Liddy has held a fundraiser for McCain at his home and describes the Arizona senator as an "old friend"; McCain has said he is "proud" of Liddy.
But executives are already mulling how clearly they would want their anchors and analysts to state the obvious, since networks have been criticized for depressing turnout by calling elections while polls are still open for several more hours. But they must also decide how they are going to fill air time, since networks are planning to be on the air until 2 a.m. on the East Coast.
1) that the statutes of most of those states require third parties registering prospective voters to submit all registration forms they receive; and 2) that actual instances of illegal votes being cast as a result of registration fraud are extremely rare.
"Based on what I saw in 2004 and 2006, it's a scare tactic." In 2006, Iglesias was fired as U.S. attorney thanks partly to his reluctance to pursue voter-fraud cases as aggressively as DOJ wanted -- one of several U.S. attorneys fired for inappropriate political reasons, according to a recently released report by DOJ's Office of the Inspector General
The day after leaves behind a puzzle: How the hell did candidates
manage to be so timid and uninspiring at a time when American troops are in two
problematic wars, the world financial markets are in scary free fall and the Dow
has lost 1,400 points since Oct. 1? This is a moment history rarely sees — and
both men blew it.
Now, if we get our tax policies right so that they're good for the middle class, if we reverse the policies of the last eight years that got us into this fix in the first place, and that Senator McCain supported, then we are going to be in a position to deal with Social Security and deal with Medicare because we will have a health care plan that actually works for you, reduces spending and costs over the long term, and Social Security that is stable and solvent for all Americans and not just some.Even FOX News in there post-election coverage asserted that, McCain lead until healthcare, the anchor said it himself.
Americans are angry, they’re upset, and they’re a little fearful. It’s our job to fix the problem.But from there are on we heard very little in the way of how he would fix it.
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