Zogby’s tracking poll suggests it’s possible. Vive la resistance. My endorsement here.
Month: January 2008
The Mending Begins?
Scott Horton sees hope in Iowa – on both sides..
Hewitt vs McCain
Now he plays the age card:
McCain’s response to the age issue is to note his pace of campaigning, which has been steady though nothing like Romney’s, as well has to joke about his mother’s longevity.
Ugh. And here’s his proposal:
Mitt and Rudy should arrange for their own debate and invite the press to attend.
Obama and the Netroots
One reader offers this explanation for the rift:
I am convinced that the reason the lefty bloggers have turned on Obama is that he created, independently of them, his own grass roots and "net roots" network of small contributors and part-time activists. Kos and his ilk started to believe that he could snap his fingers in favor of a particular candidate, and scads of small contributions would start flowing toward that person. Obama reminds me of a DJ who was on a San Francisco powerhouse rock station, who would sign off his morning show with, "If you don’t like the news, go out and make some of your own." Obama decided to go out and make his own grass roots network rather than pander to the Kossack wing of the Democratic party. That is a direct threat to his power, and he wins, it will be another salient benefit of his candidacy.
Gratitude
From the "black bourgeois" blog, Jack and Jill:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank George W. Bush, for if he hadn’t of been such an utter failure on so many levels, then the country wouldn’t remotely be open to the ‘possibility’ of a Black man as President.
Republicans For Obama
Republican turnout calls are picking up Obama supporters on Republican caucus-goers lists. There is going to be a good government/reform vote for Obama crossing over from outside the usual Dem base; especially moderate GOP women.
“I Can’t Back Edwards”
He just doesn’t have the money. He decided to take public financing and that will hobble him versus the Republican machine if he’s the nominee.
In-Trade On Iowa
Betting on Huckabee and Obama.
The Solution To Bed Bugs
Beagles are a start.
Ron Paul: For President Of Azeroth!
The good doctor had a rally … in World Of Warcraft land (yeah, the above is a screen-grab of a line of Ron Paul supporters):
"We rallied in Ironforge for a while, then we took the subway to Stormwind, then we went to Goldshire and eventually Booty Bay, Ratchet, The Crossroads, and then Orgrimmar." "There was even a long swim involved, which was really funny," another player said. "Considering there was 240 people all swimming at the same time."
More to come:
The RP Revolution guild is planning additional rallies in WoW in support of Ron Paul, and there are rumors of events in other virtual worlds (Second Life? LOTRO?).
Alas, our intrepid blogger-reporter got the time zone for the gathering wrong:
Allow me to explain something about gaming journalism: when you show up three hours late to an in-game event, there isn’t much of a story left to cover. Even my editors, who generally consider my faux pas to be the very height of comedy, would raise their eyebrows at this one. Time to pull this puppy out of the jaws of defeat, and get something that looked like a story out of this mess.
I interviewed a couple of my new guildmates. They were quite helpful. A few facts:
The rally went a bit better than expected. The number of Ron Paul followers that appeared were appreciable.
The rally actually caused a queue on Whisperwind of more than 300 players waiting to log in.
They filled five raids with Ron Paul supporters. At 40 per raid, that was more than 200 people.
Various guildmates threw out different figures. One said that 200+ people had shown up. Another said the number was 240, another said 250 or more.
The march ended in Orgrimmar, with (presumably) the mass slaughter of the marchers at the hands of their Horde enemies. No word on how Ron Paul felt about this horrific tragedy.
The Dish 