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Wordsmith Declares 'Spillcam' Top Word of 2010
By David Moye - AOL News
(Nov. 15) -- There are still six weeks left in 2010, but word has it, the word of the year has already been chosen: "spillcam." That's the final word from Paul JJ Payack, president of The Global Language Monitor, a group that tracks word usage trends worldwide. "We search millions of websites and more than 75,000 print and radio outlets looking for global English terms that stuck out during the year," Payack told AOL News. "We analyze the terms that come up most often and then monitor whether it increases or decreases over time." Damien Meyer, AFP / Getty Images Vuvuzelas like these made ...
Murdoch: Obama Will Win
By David Knowles - Politics DailyRupert Murdoch, the conservative media giant, sees a Barack Obama presidency in our country's future. And he's not unhappy about it, either. Via The Huffington Post, Murdoch is quoted thusly regarding the Illinois Senator:"He is a rock star. I love what he is saying about education. I think he will win and I am anxious to meet him."So what about the other guy? "McCain is a friend of mine. But I think he's got a lot of problems. He has been in Congress a long time, and you have to make a lot of compromises. So what's he really stand for?... I think he has a lot of problems."Go figure. Murdoch ...
He Can't Close the Deal
By Dave - Politics DailyJay Cost has once again brought forth a very interesting analysis. This one indicates that Pennsylvania is tracking very much like Ohio. Hillary starts with a comfortable lead, loses it when Obamania is brought to bear on the subject state, but then fades away in the end. Clearly, the polls in both states have behaved similarly. The only significant difference is that Obama closed Clinton's lead much earlier in Pennsylvania than he did in Ohio. He moved to within 10 points 19 days before the Pennsylvania primary. This happened about 12 days before the Ohio primary. Other than this, Clinton's ...
Bitter Effect in PA?
By Dave - Politics DailyIt's ARG, not exactly the gold standard, but maybe a portent of things to come. This is one of those situations where the movement may be more important than the actual numbers. Anyway, ARG's latest poll shows Hillary with a shocking 20 point lead over Barack in Pennsylvania, when a week ago they were tied 45-45. Today's numbers are 57-37. That's either some extremely bad polling data, or one heck of a vote shift. Could Obama's 5-1 on-air advantage be backfiring? 10% of all likely Democratic primary voters say they would never vote for Hillary Clinton in the primary and 24% of likely ...
The Turning Point
By Dave - Politics DailyRoger Simon has an article out today where he asks the question, "Where did it all go wrong for Hillary." And he answers the question with Iowa: Iowa is where Clinton needed to strangle the Barack Obama campaign in its crib. She needed to do him in at the very beginning, while her inevitability argument still had credibility. True, some in the Clinton campaign were worried about Iowa. Mike Henry, her deputy campaign manager, wrote a 1,500-word internal memo saying Clinton should skip the state entirely and spend her time and money elsewhere. And as we now know, she came in an embarrassing ...
You Are Wearing Me Out Brother!
By Dave - Politics DailyThis is funny: I'm feeling for Obama on this one. But let's chalk this up to the pitfalls of being a rock star. What Obama needs is a beefier entourage. I'm wondering if Hillary and McCain have to put up with this kind of persistence from their fans. ...
The Video That Ends Obamania
By Dave - Politics DailyThat's not my title, but that's the import of this MyDD post built around this video. (warning, images of WTC attacks in full) ...
Have Obama Fans Jumped the Shark?
By Brandon Barker - Politics DailySen. Barack Obama's supporters are young, hip and happening... and they want change. They want hatchets to be buried, wounds to be healed, scars to be laser-treated. They want a brighter future, a new tomorrow. Obama supporters want a leader who can take a tough call from Laurinda Calongne in the morning and a tough call from Clinton Portis in the evening. They want to see policemen riding happily on Segways. They want better luggage.Which is another way of saying, can we trust the average Obama supporter to hang out and watch an episode of Weeds without spilling kombucha on our couch? It's ...
The End of Obamamania
By Justin Paulette - Politics DailyAs every political pundit with a calculator has discovered, the odds of a Clinton victory in November are hopelessly slender. Hence, while Republicans continue to enjoy the gratuitous media coverage of mud-slinging and character-bashing in the Democratic primaries, they are also setting their gaze upon son-to-be Democratic nominee Barack Obama. Unfortunately for Democrats, the Obama moment seems to have crested. The underdog has likely swept aside the establishment candidate, thereby brandishing in victory the banner of "change." However, the golden child has already begun to tarnish. Opinions ...
Hot Seat: Is Obama Too Hip?
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