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Obama's Appeal Depends on Your Definition of Change

Source: RealClearPolitics

Obama's Appeal Depends on Your Definition of Change By Stuart Rothenberg Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) continues to promise change and stress his ability to unite Americans. It's a feel-good campaign built on soaring rhetoric and good intentions.

Bill Clinton is a Problem for Obama

Source: dickpolman.blogspot.com

It's Martin Luther King Day - or, as the Hillary Clinton campaign might prefer to call it, Martin Luther King/Lyndon B. Johnson Day - but this is no time for a holiday break. Not with Barack Obama calling Bill Clinton a liar on national TV.

Note to Iowans and New Hampshirites

I am going to take my time to pick apart what I see as reasons not to vote for certain Republicans contending for the party nomination for the Presidency.

Polls Gone Wild

....and not in a good way. There have been some articles out there about how polls are meaningless or biased or spun by the media, but this isn't one of those articles.

Are news reports on New Hampshire polls distorted in Obama's favor?

Still working on a larger piece on polls. But there are so many important uses of poll data by the media, Obama and his supporters that they are worth looking at some now, before the larger article.

The power of traditional media and their likely impact on 2008 elections

So, you think that others are well informed? You think that traditional media, including newsprint, is dead? Think again. Of course, this is only my opinion. But most of what is out in all media about the Internet deals with advertising and its effectiveness.

RealClearPolitics

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