The Nexus of 2024

Tag: election08

  • “Yes We Can” do grassroots campaigning for Obama on Facebook

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    The Yes We Can/Sí­ Se Puede video’s already got at least a million hits on YouTube — 566,000 for the one I linked to here, a couple more instances with 285,000 and 140,000, and then a long tail curve … How many people will watch it if we get it all over Facebook? I dunno,…

  • Kos gets one very, very, right

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    On the heels of posts by Matthew Yglesias and Ezra Klein yesterday, Kos has an excellent short post highlighting how Bill Clinton and Edwards both completely distorted Obama’s quote about Reagan as a transformative politician. Huh. I didn’t see the part where Obama said the GOP’s ideas were “all the good” ones. In fact, Obama…

  • Why the New Hampshire recount is important

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    There are a couple of excellent posts up on why even though there are plausible explanations for the discrepancies in candidates’ results between hand-counted and machine-counted precincts, the recount in the New Hampshire primary is a good thing. In Off the Bus on the Huffington Post, after giving some background on the vulnerabilities of the…