Posts Tagged ‘election’

The Medium - Clicking and Choosing - The Election According to YouTube - NYT 111608 By VIRGINIA HEFFERNAN:
During the presidential election, YouTube turned from a hectic mosaic of weird video clips to a first-stop source for political everything. Every gotcha moment, spoof, pundit’s musing, TV clip, campaign speech, formal ad and handmade polemic cropped up [...]

CNN Takes A Look At The Campaign That Was.

Paul Krugman: The Republican Rump - NYT 110308:
Instead, the Republican rump, the party that’s left after the election, will be the party that attends Sarah Palin’s rallies, where crowds chant “Vote McCain, not Hussein!” It will be the party of Saxby Chambliss, the senator from Georgia, who, observing large-scale early voting by African-Americans, warns his [...]

Thomas L. Friedman Vote for - NYT 110208:
We are all going to have to pay, because this meltdown comes in the context of what has been “perhaps the greatest wealth transfer since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917,” says Michael Mandelbaum, author of “Democracy’s Good Name.” “It is not a wealth transfer [...]

Mouffe sent me this MoveOn.org video. She sent one to Sam Samster, too.