Hillary’s Voice

They think they can keep us penned in.
Chain, chain, chain, chain of fools (thanks to Sarah at Corrente)

7 worrisome signs (Politico)
A few weeks back, Time magazine was musing that John McCain was in danger of sliding from “a long shot” to a “no-shot.”… [Now, Obama’s supporters are] suffering a pre-Denver panic attack, watching as John McCain draws incrementally closer in state and national polls – with Rasmussen’s most recent daily national tracker showing a statistical dead heat… Americans may want divided government. Some Democratic operatives think a possible landslide for their party in congressional races could backfire on Obama. “Fairly or not, folks think he’s pretty liberal and nobody wants a pair of Pelosis running things,” says a New York-based Democratic consultant.
Yeah, that way so liberal Nancy Pelosi. Wouldn’t want to elect another one of THOSE. So how many years have we had single-party governance since Richard Nixon was first elected president in 1968? There were the four years of Jimmy Carter’s presidency, two years of Clinton’s, and six years of Bush II’s. That’s 12 out of the last 40 years. Interesting, isn’t it?—Caro

Once Again, It’s Obama Versus Clinton: August 4 - 10, 2008 (Project for Excellence in Journalism)
Just one week after John McCain finally generated as much campaign coverage as Barack Obama, the parity proved to be short-lived. For the eighth time in nine weeks, the presumptive Democratic nominee substantially outdistanced his Republican opponent in the competition for exposure, according to PEJ’s Campaign Coverage Index. Obama was a significant or dominant factor in 78% of the campaign coverage from August 4-10 compared with 53% for McCain… A week earlier, with his controversial “celebrity” ad driving the campaign narrative, McCain had, for the first time, virtually tied his rival in the battle for headlines, trailing only 78% to 81%… Last week, the major story lines turned more to issues—particularly energy policy—discord among Democrats and the search for vice-presidents.

Papers Plan Strategy for National Political Conventions (Editor & Publisher)
If the national political conventions later this month promise little in the way of surprises, then why are newspapers amping up coverage of the nomination process’ climax? And how do some of the top newspaper political blogs plan to tackle them?
Help us plug for Hillary to be nominated, newspapers, and you’ll sell a lot of papers based on coverage of the Democratic convention.—Caro

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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com