Format Changes -- Good or Bad- January 28, 2004 Or unnoticable I cleaned up the sidebars a bit, cleared out some old junk (sorry Wes Clark), and moved my blogroll and featured sites to the right side, so you can get to them more easily. Let me know if you like the change better or worse, or it's too trivial to notice. And while I'm at it, I'm open to suggestions for other changes. This change will also allow me to add more sites to my blogroll, so I'm soliciting nominations now. (And an offer to exchange links never hurts, folks.) And what...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2004/01/28.html#a1074 'Iraq didn't work for Dean'- January 28, 2004 The "Iraq didn't work for Dean" meme has been playing heavily in the media the past two weeks. It was the basis for his appeal, and yet voters shunned him on it, they say. Therefore, his constituency has deserted him. There are a few gaping problems with that logic: First, the Dean phenom never had much to do with Iraq. That was a part of the appeal for sure, but a small part. The media seized on that early, because that was the only explanation they could come up with--at least one they...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2004/01/28.html#a1069 The big night begins- January 23, 2004 Great opening by Dean. Thank God. Laid it all on the line in the starkest terms I can remember any politician stating his case. Incredible tag line: "There was no middle class tax cut." If New Hampshire voters can look past all the hoopla and just consider what it is they really want, I think they can still fall in love with this guy. Or am I just projecting. (Clark had a great opening, too, though nothing on the level of Dean's. His: I'm a Democrat now, and I can attract a lot of people to...http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2004/01/22.html#a1031 Blogs vs Media Whores- January 12, 2004 I did not see Meet the Press yesterday, but lots of reports about them trashing the blogs for trashing the press, including this transcript snippet on Kos: MR. TODD: ... They're very anti-media. Reading the Dean blog is like reading Republican message points from years past and they're anger toward the media. They felt very mad at NBC News and Lisa Myers over the last couple of days over the story, felt like somehow NBC News took his comments out of context. So it is a little... MR. RUSSERT:..http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2004/01/12.html#a1008 Clark's surging poll numbers- January 12, 2004 We may be getting a two-man race after all. While Dean looks more and more inevitable under most reasonable scenarios, Wes Clark is finally making his moves in the polls--nationally, and in New Hampshire. The latest national poll showing striking gains comes from Rasmussen (via Kos -- Kos has everything politico). Dean is still ahead, but not by much. In the past week, Clark has gained four points--from 13-17--but it's mostly been at Dean's expense. They've gone from a 10-point gap to.http://blogs.salon.com/0001137/categories/clark/2004/01/12.html#a1007 |