2004 Presidential Election
President Bush's pick of Porter Goss as Director of the CIA is the subject of an editorial from the Denver Post [August 11, 2004, "CIA pick deserves close review"]. This appointment is going to become an election issue. I expect the Senate confirmation hearings to turn into a referendum on administration policies.
The Rocky Mountain News editorial staff also has an opinion on the Goss appointment [August 11, 2004, "Is Goss the right man for the CIA?"].
Here's an article from the AP via the Rocky Mountain News on the subject.
And, of course, TalkLeft is on the story.
Taegan Goddard: "Nielsen/NetRatings found that traffic to Sen. John Kerry's official web site 'increased by 191 percent during the week of the convention, making it the fastest-growing major Web site in the country (for that week, anyway),' the Washington Post reports. In addition, 'Kerry's readership far eclipsed that of his Republican rivals.' In fact, President Bush's campaign web site 'did not have enough visitors to register' with the ratings firm." Is this Internet thing for real?
John Perry Barlow: "I want to organize a cadre of 20 to 50 of us. I want to dress us in suits and other plain pedestrian attire and salt us among the sidewalk multitudes in Republican-rich zones. At a predetermined moment, one of us will produce a boom-box and crank it up with something danceable. Suddenly, about a third of the people on the sidewalk, miscellaneously distributed in the general throng, will start dancing like crazy and continue to do so for for about a minute. Then we will stop, melt back into the pedestrian flow, and go to another location to erupt there."
I suggest an IPod with these speakers.
Update: Taegan Goddard: "Here are the latest state polls on the presidential race: Michigan - Kerry 49%, Bush 42% (EPIC/MRA); Oklahoma - Bush 59%, Kerry 35% (Consumer Logic)."
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