Yeah Joe Klien!

jkillian — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 20:01:37 -0400

Spot-on. The political parties are always susceptible to small, but dedicated and vocal issue-centric groups.

YEAH BARACK OBAMA! More proof that he is on the front side of the wave.

YEAH James Kotecki.

YEAH Huckabee: EDUCATION! EDUCATION! EDUCATION! EDUCATION!

Daily Digest: 6/8/07

Joshua Levy — Fri, 08 Jun 2007 11:17:37 -0400

The Web on the Candidates

OpenSecrets.org has just released first-quarter expenditure numbers for all of the candidates, and while it would take weeks to analyze the amount of data they've released, Chris Bowers has a good analysis going. Barack Obama spent more than the others in almost all of the categories, and he far and away spent the most on "Internet Media" -- $299,000 -- which, as Bowers notes, is five times more than the rest of the field combined.

Joe Klein is frustrated that smart political blogging "is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere," and he points to the "spitballs" aimed at Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for their positions on the Iraq war as evidence. "Despite their votes, each of those politicians believes the war must be funded," he writes, explaining that only voted against the recent Iraq resolution because they were bullied by anti-war bloggers (the Netroots?). This, Klein says, its dangerous because Democratic candidates are becoming beholden to the base in the same way that the GOP embraced conservative radio in the '90s. (via Election Geek)

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Yeah Joe Klien!

Daily Digest: 6/8/07