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January 27, 2004

Convention
: What are the odds that this goes to the convention? How long as it been since a race was determined there?telecharger opensky 1.5

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Political junkies unite
: Command Post has election-night chat.telecharger opensky 1.5

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Undecided, not divided
: On the radio tonight, I heard that a third of voters decided their votes within the last four days. I'll say it again and keep saying it: We are not a nation divided, we are a nation undecided.
CNN hints that one of the successes of Dean in New Hampshire is a lowered reliance on backpacked outsiders invading the state.
Fox projects Kerry's victory at 8:16.
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The results trickle in
: Kerry is winning. Dean's "temperment" is hurting him. Dean and Edwards are running in the others' tails. Lieberman is off-camera. Clark keeps the oxygen tent, running head-to-head with Edwards. telecharger opensky 1.5

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At ETech Emerging Democracy
: I'm happy to say that I'll be on a panel led by Dan Gillmor at the ETech Emerging Democracy confab. I'm also looking forward to meeting leading Iranian blogger Pedram Moallemian in San Diego. If you're in the nabe....telecharger opensky 1.5

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Get 'em while they're hot
: I just went to Demstore.com and bought some hats, buttons and pins for a couple of my favorite candidates -- in case it will be too late tomorrow.
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Arrrgh
: I love I Want Media but I may have to stop going there until a talking ad disappears. Every time I go to the page, it starts jabbering with no way to shut it up. I'm saying all this so IWantMedia's proprietor can go to the advertiser and say people are complaining. My complaint isn't with him; it's with a company called Adfare -- whom, you'd think, would know better. telecharger opensky 1.5

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Until blog do us part
: Blogs are not a marital aid:

Dear Harriette: When my wife gets mad at me, she writes on her Web site what I did wrong that day. We are in counseling, but sometimes my words will be twisted around on the site. She tells me not to go to the site, but I know one of our neighbors does and I want to know what is being said about me on a public Web site. Any advice? -- Tom, Texas

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A Joe surprise
: I wonder whether (actually I'm only wishfully thinking that...) Joe Lieberman could come in at least higher than expected tonight.
: Kaus says: "Some people actually believe in Joementum, thanks to independent voters. Having worked for a low-polling conservative Dem here in '84, I don't."
: John Ellis says Lieberman beats Clark: Kerry 35%, Dean 22%, Edwards 18%, Lieberman 10%, Clark 8%. (I'll say it a third time: Get the jam ready to spread on Clark.)
: Sean Hannity on FoxNews says that Lieberman is the Democrat who could beat Bush because he's the only one tough on terrorism. That, as I've said lately, is the Howard Stern strategy.
I still don't think Lieberman has a ... pardon the expression ... prayer. But at least a Lieberman surge would send a message to the rest the pack.
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: MORNING AFTER UPDATE. Yup. Just wishful thinking. telecharger opensky 1.5

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A star is conceived, not born
: Best Week Ever asks:

How does Dennis Miller have a TV show and Wonkette doesn't?

But it looks as if they want to get her on their show. telecharger opensky 1.5

: Meanwhile, Wonkette says today:

Drew Barrymore Gets Onboard Clark
First Madonna, now Drew. What is it with the slutty blondes and Clark? Must be some kind of daddy fixation.

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Al Franken of the WWE
: The NY Post reports that Al Franken tackled a heckler at a Dean rally:

Wise-cracking funnyman Al Franken yesterday body-slammed a demonstrator to the ground after the man tried to shout down Gov. Howard Dean.
The tussle left Franken's trademark thick-rim glasses broken, but he said he was not injured....
Franken said he's not backing Dean but merely wanted to protect the right of people to speak freely.... "I'm neutral in this race but I'm for freedom of speech, which means people should be able to assemble and speak without being shouted down." ...
"I was a wrestler so I used a wrestling move," Franken said.

That might seem like an odd contradiction -- I'm in favor of free speech and so I body-slammed you to shut you up -- but it turns out he was going after a Larouchie. Now it all makes sense, eh?
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: UPDATE: Nick, a commenter, says the Post is tabbing it up and he points us to two other versions of this most momentous event. From NRO:

But just then, a second protester stood up and began his own high-volume tirade.
"Dean's a liar!" he hollered.
At that point, comedian Al Franken rose from among the journalists and others near the stage and said, "Let's get him out of here."
Franken and a few others hustled the second man outside. As they did so, the first ill-mannered LaRouchite reemerged...
Throughout all this commotion, Howard Dean's fuse stayed long and moist.

Bad visual.
And CNN does a Larouchie roundup:

Franken, a comedian and self-described liberal well-known for his attacks on the Bush administration and conservative-leaning media, helped carry out one of the disrupters. In the process, Franken's glasses were knocked off his face and broke in two.
Putting them back together with electrical tape, he quipped he had been "deputized" by Dean's security.

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Undecided blogger is not an oxymoron
: OregonLive, one of my day-job services, got two undecided voters to blog. Steve Outing writes it up.telecharger opensky 1.5

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I'm gonna wash that man right outa my hair...
: Mickey Kaus sums it all up:

Campaign dynamic: Race throws up frontrunner; frontrunner attacked and trashed in press; frontrunner fades and is replaced by new frontrunner; lather and repeat.

Once upon a time, I thought this was a dumb system; why don't we have a national primary and be done with it? And while that has many advantages (campaign finance reform not the least among them), I now see benefits to the primary unsystem: It is the gauntlet though which candidates must go not only with media (who so far have been wrong about whom we like) but with the voters. Oh, sure, it's not a real test of Presidential qualifications. But it does bring out the worst in the candidates before it's too late. And it gives us time to make our own decisions. telecharger opensky 1.5

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