Stopping Dean by helping Gephardt in Iowa- December 28, 2003 DailyKos throws out a fascinating Stop Dean scenario this morning. (And if you're not reading Kos every day, you're missing out. He has emerged as the best politican writer in the country this season, without ever writing for a "real" publication.) It starts with this quote from a pretty shitty Washington Post story this morning by the highly uneven Dan Balz: Bill Carrick, one of Gephardt's advisers, said all the other candidates should be rooting for Gephardt to stop Dean in Iowa. "Every.http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2003/12/28.html#a978 No smearing required- December 27, 2003 A good friend of this site who switched from Dean to Clark awhile back--mirroring my own dalliance, they I came out on the other end--wrote me several weeks back about an ex deaniacs for clark site he was building. Sounded intersesting and I intended to plug the finished product, but I didn't find the message again in my ever-exploding inbox again until tonight. (A fringe benefit of sickness is all this time on your hands with no ability to go out an play or do anything too taxing. So you clean.http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2003/12/26.html#a976 Dean piling up endorsements- December 17, 2003 From AP: New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey plans to endorse Howard Dean for president and has asked state Democrats to begin campaigning for the former Vermont governor, state Democratic officials said Tuesday. Officials said McGreevey's endorsement, which he plans to announce Friday, is part of a broader push by Dean to gain backing of Democratic governors and other party leaders. . . . Campaigning Tuesday in Arizona, Dean won the endorsement of former Arizona Gov. and Interior Secretary...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2003/12/16.html#a959 Dean can't win in the south- December 16, 2003 One of the major knocks about Dean is that he'll get shellacked in the south, which the Dems supposedly cannot afford. Then why is he pulling ahead in one southern poll after another, in the Dem primary race The latest polls are from Arizona and Texas (Clark in second in both; Dean leads in Texas by 2, Arizona by a whopping ten). Yes, these are just against Dems, but he's doing better down there than the southern Dems--Edwards is barely on the map in his own turf. Nice analysis and more numbers.http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2003/12/16.html#a953 Bad timing for Wes Clark- December 15, 2003 Wesley Clark didn't ask to testify at Slobodan Milosevic's war crimes trial, he was called by the prosecution. But he will be the most senior U.S. official to testify, and it did offer a nice boost for his campaign--well beyond the price of losing a few days during a crucial month. From an AP story just posted about his first day of testimony: "The fact that Wesley Clark is going to testify in the middle of the primaries is fairly amazing," said professor Michael Scharf, the author of several..http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2003/12/15.html#a950 Clark says Dean can't win- December 15, 2003 Mildly disturbingannoying Salon cover story today, titled: Clark: Howard Dean can't win Key quote: "I don't think the Democratic Party can win without carrying a heavy experience in national security affairs into the campaign," he told Salon in a phone interview last week. "And that experience can't be in a vice president." I don't think that's going to help us beat Bush, but I guess he's gotta do what he's gotta do. The electability issue is about the only card Wes Clark seems to have at the.http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2003/12/15.html#a946 All locked up for Howard Dean- December 6, 2003 Interesting that we're now getting some news analysis pieces--at least from places like Salon--asking whether Howard Dean has the whole race wrapped up. (But Salon, of all places, again makes the eggregiously wrong statement that New Hampshire is the first primary. For God's sake, it's DC!) According to Mario Cuomo, every insider he talks to says Dean already has it won. I never believe anyone telling me anything is certain, but the odds for the others continue dwindling by the day....http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2003/12/06.html#a905 How come no one copied the Dean plan- December 3, 2003 The Trippi plan The Dean phenom has amazed me the past six months, but the thought that keeps perplexing me is how come no one has copycatted Not run off with his policy agenda, but with all his clever campaign innovations He's really revolutionizing the road to the White House, and he's doing it in plain site. So The current little flurry in my little brain kicked off when Calpundit linked to my post on Dean's latest clever campaign tactic last night. Quite the lively discussion has...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2003/12/03.html#a896 New ads for Wes Clark, big push on Feb 3 strategy- December 2, 2003 Wesley Clark is really counting on winning a bunch of the Feb. 3 primaries. Big new ad-buy continues to indicate that strategy. He must be praying Gephardt will deprive Howard Dean of a one-two Iowa-New Hampshire punch, or at least that he doesn't use it to roll over the next round. It could get really interesting if Dean wins the first two, but then Clark wins several the next week. Of course the problem of that scenario is this is such a momentum game, it's going to be very hard for Clark to..http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2003/12/02.html#a885 Dean and Clark battling for the Big Hollywood Money- December 2, 2003 Kind of an interesting Salon cover story on the race to win Hollywood's heart in this year's campaign. Pretty much mirrors the rest of the campaign: Edwards had a great early start that dried up completely, Kerry raised a lot of money for awhile, but the spigots have stopped as he heads toward loserdom, and it's mainly coming down to a battle between Howard Dean and Wesley Clark. With Gephardt holding down a somewhat smaller contingent, that could gain momentum if he beats Dean in Iowa....http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2003/12/02.html#a883 |