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January 17, 2008

Tote Board Column -- 1/17 -- "Net Results"
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This week's Tote Board column looks at how internet punditry has made political reporting not better, but far worse.

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January 05, 2008

For the Latest in NH Campaign News, Check Out My Able Colleague David Bernstein
By webteam
The able David Bernstein of the Phoenix is blogging regularly in these pages about the latest developments in NH: Check it out!

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November 19, 2007

John Fund of the Wall Street Journal Claims to Identify the Nature of the Scandalous Information About Obama
By webteam
According to a published report, John Fund of the Wall Street Journal claims to know the subject matter of the Clinton forces' "scandalous information" about Barack Obama, written about in Robert Novak's column on Saturday and defended by the columnist today.
Marc Ambinder's blog, quoting from OpinionJournal.com, quotes Fund as saying:

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November 19, 2007

Bob Novak's Defense of His Column Claiming the Clinton Forces Have Scandalous Information About Obama But Aren't Using It
By webteam
We wrote Saturday about Robert Novak's column that the Clinton forces have scandalous information about Barack Obama and have decided not to use it. A big mystery, we suggested, is why the story would come out now -- given that its timing actually hurts Clinton.
An interview with Novak this morning on Fox News defending the column may explain this "mystery."

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October 31, 2007

Jay Cost on Last Night's Debate: Did It Really Mean Anything?
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The always astute Jay Cost at RealClearPolitics has an interesting post this afternoon whose headline speaks for itself: “A Junkie's Debate...And Nothing More.” And Jay is right in a way – though to paraphrase Bill Clinton, it depends on what the meaning of junkie is.
As we wrote before the debate, the real importance of this debate was the effect it would have on Iowa voters choosing who should carry the banner of the anti-Hillary forces -- a decision that would have a key spillover effect elsewhere

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August 27, 2007

Check out Adam Reilly's Piece in this Week's Phoenix
By webteam
We're a bit late getting to this but Adam Reilly offers a very useful look this week in the Phoenix at 3 pop culture developments that could affect the Romney campaign.
We've long felt that over time, Romney's religion would end up becoming a big plus for his campaign, not a minus. JFK in 1960 ended up benefiting greatly from the intense support of fellow Catholics who more than offset any lost support among those disinclined to support a member of his religious faith.

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Press, Republicans, Romney

July 23, 2007

Ho Hum, Another Democratic Debate Tonight
By webteam
Debate fatigue for the Democrats has set in, notes the Washington Post, and it's a wonder it took this long. No one can even figure out if this is the third or fifth debate already and -- get this -- there are at least a half-dozen more scheduled before we even get to the key debates in Iowa and New Hampshire after the first of the year.

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June 28, 2007

Tote Board Column -- 6/28 -- "So You Want Fair and Balanced?"
By webteam
With the multiplicity of web sites and papers following the 2008 Campaign, this week's Tote Board column looks at the few sources a political junkie has to follow to really keep informed.
Briefly again they are:

NEWS SOURCES
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June 06, 2007

Morning After Analysis of Last Night's GOP Debate
By webteam
The press seems mostly let down by the lack of dramatics at last night's debate, as Justin Miller of Real Clear Politics summarizes here, but that was to be expected -- as we pointed out earlier. Other than that, a few commentators think Rudy Giuliani had a great night (an assessment we share) and that Romney did fine. John McCain didn't receive that many glowing assessments (though we thought some were a bit hard on him), except in the Boston Globe -- whose commentators mostly seemed to love his performance.

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June 04, 2007

Morning After Analysis of Last Night's Dems Debate
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Justin Miller of Real Clear Politics summarizes the press reaction to last night's debate and it is as we predicted. The general consensus, with variations, is that the three front-runners dominated the debate; Richardson had a poor night, and Biden did well -- though not really well enough to make a difference.

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May 11, 2007

Good News for Political Junkies: Tom Edsall Joins Huffington Post
By webteam
There’s good news at the Huffington Post. A while back in the Phoenix, we drew up a list of the nation’s indispensable political reporters and Tom Edsall was right at the top (along with Michael Barone and a few others). In an internet age in which uninformed opinion flourishes, Edsall is one of the few political reporters who still backs up his opinions with solid reporting.

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April 09, 2007

More On the Issues
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A number of people have written the Tote Board, asking that the column devote less space to the horse race and more to the issues. It's a noble thought but this column, alas, is designed to deal with the horse race on the theory that while the press generally does pay way too much attention to who's up and who's down, it rarely does so very intelligently.

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