Wednesday, March 10, 2004
Four More Down, Who Cares How Many to Go
Kerry swept the South yesterday. Yawn. The only news was that he will need to go through a number of other primaries - at least well into April - to reach the 2162 delegates he needs to secure the nomination. Oh, and Bush wrapped up his Party's nod. Double yawn. Turnout is dropping, media coverage of these contests has disappeared from the front pages across the nation, and people are focusing more and more on the head-to-head in November. The General Election is in full effect already.
The Log Cabin Republicans have had enough and are receiving plenty of free media coverage of their anti-Amendment ad. They juxtapose images of the civil rights era with shots of happy, healthy gay couples. All held together by a long, thoughtful debate answer by Cheney in 2000 where he states as eloquently as any Democrat the prevailing mainstream opinion - the Feds should butt out of the debates going on in the individual states. Ouch.
Dean's reported to be meeting with Kerry today in D.C. to discuss an endorsement. Edwards will do the same tomorrow. Kerry undoubtably wants Dean's donor list, but that's probably the only thing he won't get from his former rival. You have to wonder what sort of pressure is being put on Kucinich and Sharpton to play nice and back off their promises to ride their respective minature ponies all the way through Boston in July.
The AP has trotted out an inevitable parallel story that I'm sure will surprise no one - Bush has had a number of contributers stay overnight in the White House. Not many celebrities of note, unless you think golfer Ben Crenshaw fits that bill (he doesn't). Regardless, Republicans have only themselves to blame if this story has any legs whatsoever (and it won't) because their scrutiny of Clinton made it a requirement to release such a list to the public.
And the ad wars from the 527 groups also heat up today with the Dems getting a triple-threat buy out there from groups beginning today. The RNC is crying foul and threatening to return fire with buys from supposedly still unformed groups. Yea, right. As if either Party would be caught flat-footed in this newly invigorated area of political jousting.
Kerry swept the South yesterday. Yawn. The only news was that he will need to go through a number of other primaries - at least well into April - to reach the 2162 delegates he needs to secure the nomination. Oh, and Bush wrapped up his Party's nod. Double yawn. Turnout is dropping, media coverage of these contests has disappeared from the front pages across the nation, and people are focusing more and more on the head-to-head in November. The General Election is in full effect already.
The Log Cabin Republicans have had enough and are receiving plenty of free media coverage of their anti-Amendment ad. They juxtapose images of the civil rights era with shots of happy, healthy gay couples. All held together by a long, thoughtful debate answer by Cheney in 2000 where he states as eloquently as any Democrat the prevailing mainstream opinion - the Feds should butt out of the debates going on in the individual states. Ouch.
Dean's reported to be meeting with Kerry today in D.C. to discuss an endorsement. Edwards will do the same tomorrow. Kerry undoubtably wants Dean's donor list, but that's probably the only thing he won't get from his former rival. You have to wonder what sort of pressure is being put on Kucinich and Sharpton to play nice and back off their promises to ride their respective minature ponies all the way through Boston in July.
The AP has trotted out an inevitable parallel story that I'm sure will surprise no one - Bush has had a number of contributers stay overnight in the White House. Not many celebrities of note, unless you think golfer Ben Crenshaw fits that bill (he doesn't). Regardless, Republicans have only themselves to blame if this story has any legs whatsoever (and it won't) because their scrutiny of Clinton made it a requirement to release such a list to the public.
And the ad wars from the 527 groups also heat up today with the Dems getting a triple-threat buy out there from groups beginning today. The RNC is crying foul and threatening to return fire with buys from supposedly still unformed groups. Yea, right. As if either Party would be caught flat-footed in this newly invigorated area of political jousting.
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