Obama-mania may backfire
Christian Science Monitor
by Dante Chinni
01/23/07
Unless you were stranded on a desert island last week, you probably know that Sen. Barack Obama (D) of Illinois announced he is officially considering possibly running for president in an election almost two years away. It wasn’t exactly a shocking development, but it made big headlines. Last Tuesday, the day Senator Obama posted the video on his website announcing that he had created an exploratory committee — his intention to consider his intentions — cable news spent much of the day discussing the announcement. In fact, there was so much coverage of the senator’s statement that between Tuesday and Sunday last week the word ‘Obama’ got 14,800 hits on a search of Google News. That was more than 10 times as many hits received over the same period for the terms ‘Iraq’ and ‘34,452′ — the UN’s estimate last week of the number of Iraqi civilian deaths since the war there began...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0123/p09s02-codc.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
by Dante Chinni
01/23/07
Unless you were stranded on a desert island last week, you probably know that Sen. Barack Obama (D) of Illinois announced he is officially considering possibly running for president in an election almost two years away. It wasn’t exactly a shocking development, but it made big headlines. Last Tuesday, the day Senator Obama posted the video on his website announcing that he had created an exploratory committee — his intention to consider his intentions — cable news spent much of the day discussing the announcement. In fact, there was so much coverage of the senator’s statement that between Tuesday and Sunday last week the word ‘Obama’ got 14,800 hits on a search of Google News. That was more than 10 times as many hits received over the same period for the terms ‘Iraq’ and ‘34,452′ — the UN’s estimate last week of the number of Iraqi civilian deaths since the war there began...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0123/p09s02-codc.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
rudkla - 24. Jan, 23:38
