January 4, 2008, 7:13pm
Hotline’s editors and James Kotecki of The Politico try to make sense of what it all means after Iowa voters picked Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama as nominees for the 2008 presidential race.
Categories: Iowa, Politics, Barack Obama, HotlineTV, Mike Huckabee
January 4, 2008, 6:26pm
Categories: Iowa, Producer's Picks, Politics, John Edwards, Mitt Romney, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John McCain, Mike Huckabee
December 18, 2007, 8:52pm
Barack Obama, one of the frontrunners in the Democratic presidential primary, has added his voice to the the voter-generated video debate at 10Questions.com — but he answered only seven of the 10 questions before the deadline expired today.
That is the fewest questions answered by any of the participants, although eight Republicans and four Democrats didn’t respond at all. Obama didn’t answer questions about “corporate personhood,” the size of government and the two-party political system in America.
He also did not respond directly to the voters who submitted videos; instead, his campaign sent video clips from the campaign trail that attempted to address the subjects those voters asked.
The No. 1 question as chosen by 10Questions users focuses on “network neutrality,” a term used to describe the push for a government mandate on communications network owners to treat high-speed Internet content equally. Obama’s campaign submitted an answer that Obama gave on the campaign trail.
“Facebook, MySpace … [and] Google might not have been started if you had not had a level playing field for whoever’s got the best idea,” Obama said in a video excerpt from a forum with voters this year. “And I want to maintain that basic principle in how the Internet functions.”
Here’s a link-heavy guide to the other nine questions and Gravel’s responses:
Categories: Producer's Picks, Barack Obama, 10Questions
December 14, 2007, 6:08pm
The presidential campaign of Barack Obama scored powerful visual points with this video of Susan Klopfer in Mount Pleasant, Iowa, switching her support to Obama from Hillary Clinton.
The reason for the switch, which is illustrated by Klopfer pulling a Clinton sign from her yard and replacing it with one for Obama: “I was really surprised to see personal attacks from one Democrat to the other Democrat. … The negative stuff, it just isn’t going to work.”
Categories: Producer's Picks, Democrats, Politics, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
November 26, 2007, 7:41pm
Issue-specific candidate questionnaires on everything from gun rights to abortion have been a staple of presidential politics for several election cycles, and in the 2008 race, some interest groups are adding a new media element to that tradition. They are getting candidates to go on the record on film and posting their answers to the Internet for everyone to watch.
Twelve of the current Republican and Democratic candidates recently accepted the ongoing challenge of the election reform group Why Tuesday, and the group has video of another candidate, Republican Fred Thompson while protected by aides, walking away from an opportunity to take the challenge.
And today, the Save Darfur Coalition, a human rights group focused on ending genocide in that region of the African nation of Sudan, unveiled a similar “voter education project.”
So far, the project includes five short video op-eds of the candidates that complement their stated positions on Darfur, Africa at large or Darfur. Visitors to the coalition’s Web site also are encouraged to e-mail candidates who don’t yet have Darfur-specific policies.
“The next president of the United States must walk into the Oval Office with a cogent and ambitious plan to end the suffering in Darfur,” coalition spokeswoman Allyn Brooks-LaSure said in a release. “Darfur’s suffering has galvanized millions of Americans, who all demand an end to the Darfur genocide, regardless of party, ethnicity, religion, red state or blue state.”
Here are the video op-eds from the first five candidates, Democrats Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Barack Obama and Bill Richardson; and just one Republican, John McCain:
Categories: Producer's Picks, John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Richardson, John McCain, Foreign Affairs, Human Rights
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