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Dispatch from Ohio: Even The Wave radio station is all political ads, all the time

by Jill Miller Zimon at 9:00am Sun, 2 Mar 2008 under News & Politics, clinton, Obama, primary, McCain, huckabee, Election 2008, PRIMARIES, ohio; 282 views
I just received a very distressed phone call from someone running errands this morning in NE Ohio. His first words were, "Someone is making a lot of money." He went on to say that, It's one political ad after another on the radio - even 107! Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones hawking this one, Barack Obama telling us about hope in the other one - it's insane and it's not even Tuesday yet!

Is running a campaign like running the country? And is an entrepreneurial candidate what we want?

I’m struggling here. I’ve been pro-Hillary since 1991, but something I heard on Meet the Press on Sunday has shifted my favor towards Obama, and I cannot stop thinking about it. I want your feedback here. Does good campaign management forecast good governance? If both Clinton and McCain have gone broke, run weak messages, and had many staff battles, why would we trust them with our country? If I was a venture capitalist, which campaign would I invest in? But then, George Bush had a fantastic campaign….

Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas and Africa: Words from the Trail

Wisconsin's Primary is Tuesday, and it's Obama 47%, Clinton 42% (but what's the Margin of Error, Quinnipiac??) Ohio (on March 4): Clinton 55%, Obama, 34% Texas, also March 4: Clinton 49%, Obama, 41% Ohioan Jill Zimon has written the most comprehensive and enjoyable pundit's guide to Ohio. I defy Tim Russert and his roundtable to do better:

A Tour Around The Health and Political Blogs: Taking on the issue of healthcare reform.

With more and more people uninsured in our country, healthcare reform is becoming an increasingly important issue. Voters are interested in knowing where the candidates stand on the issue of healthcare. Now you can find health bloggers and political bloggers addressing healtcare reform. Here is a quick tour around some of the bloggers talking about the issue of healthcare and healthcare reform.

Presidential Election 2008: Conservative Christians : in disarray and ripe for wooing

It used to be clear. Conservative (mostly white) Christians voted Republican. Fallwellian conservatives knew their party – the politically hawk-like, anti-abortion, anti gay marriage and anti gay rights, states-rights Republicans. According to the Washington Post, when referring to the Bush election in 2004