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Monday, February 18, 2008

Upset in Wisconsin?

Remember the media hype over an Obama runaway in Wisconsin and Hillary's promise of a winless February? Polls show a tightening in Wisconsin -- and one has her ahead. The Clinton camp must feel something in the wind, as it upped its TV ad buy there. It will be interesting -- I am not yet convinced that Obama can win a primary voting state (not a caucus) in a state without a large black population to balance the white female support for Clinton. Don't be surprised if she at least finishes a close second, and claims victory....On the other hand, a new CNN survey out today shows a big Obama gain in Texas, finding him trailing only 50% to 48% there.

Meanwhile, Rick Hertzberg in The New Yorker offers a scathing appraisal of something we raised last week: That New York Times' misplaced front page story on Obama's youthful drug use. Here's the link:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/02/25/080225taco_talk_hertzberg

1 comment:

b.f. said...

One reason the Obama campaign has been caught up with the Clintons' campaign is that the U.S. media doesn't seem to be reporting about the Obama campaign's link to the 2001 Superior Bank S&L Scandal in the same way it reported on the Clinton campaign's links to the 1980s Madison Bank S&L Scandal in Arkansas during the 1992 campaign. See the Nov. 8, 2002 article in In These Times for more information about the involvement of the Obama campaign's national finance chair, Penny Pritzker, in the Superior Bank collapse (which cost U.S. taxpayers $440 million, due to the bank's board--upon which the Obama campaign's national finance chair sat--authorizing Superior bank to engage in financially reckless subprime mortgage lending and predatory lending)at the following link:

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/671/