don't see this
This is interesting.
Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times asked, “Senator, can I ask you about Senator Kerry. I just went back and looked at our story, the Times story, and you told Sheryl Stolberg that you had never had a conversation with Kerry about being about vice president...”
McCain testily replied, “Everybody knows that I had a private conversation. Everybody knows that. That I had a conversation. There’s no living American in Washington -- that knows that, there’s no one.”
One of the few media narratives that ever slights McCain is that "he gets angry". It's as silly as the Gore-is-boring or Quayle-is-stupid memes but it's been repeated enough the press tries to hang many things on it.
The Daisy Ad worked once. Perhaps it could work again...
Clinton's map is much less cool.
She doesn't expand the field beyond Kerry, whereas Obama makes deep inroads into traditional GOP states. The thing to remember is that Democrats are fired up...and if we take a bunch of red states, we can rely on a very strong state organizations to take care of states like PA, NJ, WV and FL.
IE8 is now out. I'm not amused by certain bad decisions they made but at least it passes the acid test.
I'm going to stick with my dual Minefield + IE8 setup for now.
Those of you that upgrade to IE8 may see a bit of code exposed on the site that I've used for the past several years to ensure standards are compliant. (A doctype check) Just warning you.
It now appears to be down to a long slog through the Democratic mud for both Obama and Clinton.
I'm not unhappy, though. Democratic voters continue to come out in droves, and both HRC and BHO appear to have a decent chance to run the table with McCain, albeit from very different directions. (It is slightly absurd that Obama would have to tack left and Clinton right, in the general...when both are already more to that side than they need be)
Hilary's got a solid lead in Ohio.
Texas is the toss-up state...if Obama eeks out a win there, I don't see how HRC continues. If he loses both Ohio and Texas, look for the fight to get nastier and more filled with vitriol.
I had almost forgotten what it felt like to eat lunch outside. Suddenly every task seems lighter.
Money was spent. Animals were seen. More money was spent. Pix later, I suppose.