Interesting analysis of leading ABC entertainer- January 28, 2004 Off topic a bit from the moment, but I meant to post this all day. I thought Dean did a great job on the Diane Sawyer interview last Thursday, and his wife Judy did all the better. ABC's star newsmodel Diane Sawyer made her usual ass of herself, however. Wonderful LA Times analysis, via link from TalkLeft, via Atrios: Out of the 96 questions that Sawyer asked, 90 were about personality and temperament and only six were even vaguely about issues; virtually all 96 were hostile and.http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/27.html#a1065 Kerry wins -- according to CNN- January 28, 2004 And I don't think they would go out on a limb on this one. Well, it looks like a close second for Howard Dean. The main question now is the spin. How will the media spin this one Can't wait to throw up. (At the pronouncements, not the outcome.) Update: And Kerry is apparently going to make is victory speech almost immediately.Update 2: Now they're saying Kerry is likely to win by 10 points. And our old friend Bill Schneider is back on to say that that number is critical, because they decided...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/27.html#a1064 How does a man lose that much touch with reality- January 28, 2004 Seven minutes the polls have been closed, and already a solid contender for two of tonight's most coveted newsmodel awards: Most Cynical Conclusion of the Evening Most Asinine Assessment of the Evening. Surprisingly, the comment reaping in both nominations came from none of the normal newsmodel contenders, but from CNN chief political analyst Bill Schneider. And things were going so well through the first 25 seconds of his report. It was a really interesting exit-poll analysis, of the...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/27.html#a1063 Polls close: Dead Heat- January 28, 2004 The polls just closed and CNN unveiling its exit-polling results. They're not putting numbers to it yet, but they are validating what has been leaked all afternoon: Kerry has a slight lead, but Dean is close enough that he could catch him Clark and Edwards way back in a tight race for distant third Wolf Blitzer says it looks like a long night. Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!! We may not win this thing, but it's going to be very close.http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/27.html#a1062 The crap they're going to feed us tonight- January 27, 2004 So the late-breaking exit polls indicate Howard Dean actually has an outside chance of winning this thing tonight. And if he does, he'll be The Comeback Kid (thought he'll need a new title--I imagine his people have already focus-tested several, and the nets prolly have a slew of them lined up as well). And suddenly the media will lather him with glory again, which will be ridiculous, though no more ridiculous to the drubbing they gave him last week. (At least they better anoint him again if he.http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/27.html#a1061 Dead heat in New Hampshire- January 27, 2004 The polls all agreed on a big Kerry victory this morning, but the exit polling shows a different story. From Kos: The 1 p.m. tracking polls had the LA Times exit polling operation giving Dean the slight lead, while the media consortium gave Kerry the lead. The 4 p.m. results supposedly show similar numbers. Wow. I may just pop out of my sullen mood after all. Of course it's still just polling, but exit-polling is a whole different story from pre-polling. The main challenge with...http://blogs.salon.com/categories/howardDean/2004/01/27.html#a1060 |