Don't think of an Obama/Biden!

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Friday September 12, 2008 · 5:48 PM PDT

2008/09/12 · 17:48

Part of my daily routine is to open 15 tabs in Firefox with my favorite blogs. At the end of the day, it is a quick, easy way to gauge what happened on the campaign trail and decide where to dig in deeper. I realize the repugs have dominated the news cycles since their hatefest in Minnesota two weeks ago so their candidates are getting all the attention. And rightly so, Palin's past and McCain's honorless lies need to be exposed, dissected and discredited.

What concerns me is the visual impression of the the home page of most of the progressive blogs. It seems every other word on DailyKos, TalkingPointsMemo and ThinkProgress are covered up with the M word and the P word. Obama is barely mentioned in the post titles and occasionally in the body of the posts. Poor Biden is rarely, if ever mentioned.

Here is a wordcloud of DailyKos on Friday around 7:30 PM CST:

Somehow I can help but think all these free impressions are helping their candidate and hurting ours.

Wal-mart for,.. no, against... nope, for raising Min. Wage...

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Thursday June 29, 2006 · 4:55 AM PDT

2006/06/29 · 04:55

This Arkansas Democrat-Gazette article first quotes Wal-mart CEO Lee Scott as being for a minimum wage increase.

"In October, I said that the federal minimum wage of $ 5.15 was out of date with the times," Scott said in an e-mailed statement. " I still believe that today. We see this first-hand at Wal-Mart with many of our customers struggling to get by. This is especially true in light of today's high gas prices."

But then Wal-mart's lobbiest, Lee Culpepper says different:

"He [Scott ] said Congress should take a look at it," Culpepper told the weekly. "If reporters want to report differently from that, I can't speak to that."

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Tuesday June 27, 2006 · 7:41 AM PDT

2006/06/27 · 07:41

The secretary of the state of Arkansas announced Rod Bryan of Little Rock had collected 10,052 valid signatures from registered voters, enough to get him in the gubernatorial race.

The race between the two traditional party candidates was shaping into what seemed like a left versus right battle. Bryan's entry threatens to change that dynamic.

Bryan appears to be pro-business, for lower taxes, but:

Bryan said he opposes tax increases but would like to see a restructuring of the tax system because he believes the poor pay too much in taxes and the wealthy pay too little. Beebe and Hutchinson both have offered varying tax-reduction proposals.

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Don't think of an Obama/Biden!

Wal-mart for,.. no, against... nope, for raising Min. Wage...

Indy candidate enters Arkansas Gov race...