Archive for April, 2008
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Driving in to Bozeman [meganpru / Flickr]
An anonymous moderate Republican student at Bozeman High in Montana attended the local Republican caucus on Super Tuesday. He/she may be voting for the first time this year but is already an astute observer of the way primaries can play to polarized voters (hat ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
Go Tell Mama is one of the most interesting viral Obama campaigns out there. (Thanks, Tate Nova and Ghidewon Arefe.) This street art, signed CRO, was dreamed up -- during some soul searching after a terrible 2006 bike accident -- by Chicago graphic designer Ray Noland. His iconic posters, stencils, ...
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Friday, April 18th, 2008
This video found by Ann Raber seems to explain -- in Vietnamese -- the steps for voting and caucusing for Clinton in Texas's Democratic primary last month (we don't, though, have any Vietnamese speakers here at PRX, so no promises). How cool is that? As Ann pointed out, Texas (or ...
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
[desi.italy / Flickr]
Last night's Democratic debate in Philly -- specifically the performance by anchors Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos -- has been widely panned: in the mainstream media, in the high-traffic political blogosphere, in thousands of outraged comments on ABC's site, and by regular people writing on their personal blogs. ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
One of the enduring images of Chelsea Clinton from her father's presidency is the picture of her walking between her parents, holding both of their hands, in the middle of Monicagate. It suggests real poise (and possibly political savvy, if you're cynical), which is again on display here at what ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Misa Dayson found this one. It was taken in Pennsylvania and features the "Chappaqua chapter of Women for Obama." In other words: Hillary Clinton's Democratic neighbors who aren't voting for her.
[jolly / Flickr]
Hopefully these women won't need to ring the Clintons' doorbell any time soon in search of eggs ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Kurt Womack from Prescott, AZ, describes himself as a "proud 'typical white person' NRA member and talk radio listener." He was not happy about Obama's remark about bitter small towners clinging to religion and guns. This self-portrait (found by James Mills) is his response:
[89AKurt / Flickr]
In describing the photo, he ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Billionaires' Row in CA: where it all went down
[zombietime]
Barack Obama's remarks in CA about small-town bitterness are in their umpteenth news cycle. It's hard to know how they'll affect next Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary. One recent poll shows Obama plummeting in PA; another shows him holding steady nationally.
The blogosphere, of course, ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
Three days ago, at a Drexel University rally in Pennsylvania, Hillary Clinton got asked on a date. To a prom. Apparently she politely responded that it might be a little tough to coordinate with her campaign schedule. (Via Ann Raber.)
[Noel Dietrich / Flickr]
If you look at the original-size version of ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
The Pennsylvania Democratic primary polls show Clinton still in the lead, despite a narrowing gap. But Earl Pickens (from Lewisburg, PA) and The Band Named Thunder think otherwise. They're so sure Obama's going to win everywhere in Pennsylvania they had to sing about it. Notice how they work in "Yes ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
In a bakery somewhere near Philadelphia, a sweet proxy campaign is underway. You get to choose a Hillary cookie or an Obama cookie. Or, in total infringement on democracy, both. (Thanks, Ann Raber!)
[Apuch / Flickr]
As of two weeks ago, Barack was winning the bakery race, but only because his campaign ...
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Monday, April 14th, 2008
The Pennsylvania primaries are a week from tomorrow, and it's all about the Democrats. Courtesy of Ann Raber: photographer Nikos G says that Clinton and Obama signs have popped up in windows all over Philadelphia:
[Nikos G / Flickr]
Imagine the neighborly front-stoop conversation.
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
Look like anyone?
[Jason Michael / Flickr]
With thanks to Ann Raber, an amusement for Friday evening. This is admittedly only tangentially related to Campaign 08, but as Ann points out, Howard Dean is in the pre-convention news these days. And so here, from Emily Oliver, a pastor at Christ Church in ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
This week General David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker answered hours of questions from Senate and House committees about the status of Iraq. So, as a small bookend, here are the perspectives -- both discouraging and hopeful -- of some Iraqis on the state of their country.
First, via Sarolta Cump, ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
In the crowd at a John McCain rally in Prescott, Arizona (via Misa Dayson). It's not clear whether the man is lost in time or sending McCain some kind of message...
[PaisleyPitbull / Flickr]
In another picture from the same rally, you can see people dressed in what appear to be pioneer-era ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Another find from Ann Raber. This card was sent with apparent fondness from a Republican dad in Florida to a Democratic daughter in Texas. The daughter's note below the photo describes previous teasing in which dad sold daughter his truck and delivered it outfitted it with Bush memorabilia.
[cmt2779 / Flickr]
The ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
Hard to know how to introduce this one. It comes via Ann Raber. The photographer -- Marc Brodsky -- is a pinhole-camera enthusiast from New Jersey who captured the scene in Jerome, Arizona.
[mbrodsky / Flickr]
We're assuming the display is intended as genuine, humorous support for Clinton. But do you think ...
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
People are tweeting about everything from everywhere. It can be overwhelming. So the beauty of this Super Tuesday mashup found by Sue Salinger is the way it bites off one small and very digestible piece of Twitter:
[estragon / Vimeo]
Doesn't the simple Google map somehow emphasize how cool it is that ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
[jack dorsey / Flickr]
Things aren't so different, it seems, from Romeo and Juliette's day, when names meant everything. Barack Obama detractors have used his middle name -- Hussein -- to imply falsely that he's a Muslim. More recently, though, Obama's name has been attracting positive attention.
Not too long ago, Juan ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
They're everywhere on YouTube and Flickr and in the blogosphere: ads made by supporters to promote their favorite candidates. They're 2008's Web 2.0 version of homemade posters and banners -- fuelled by digital media gadgetry. This video is a good example because its creator, Phil de Vellis, explains both why ...
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