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...such as global warming or human rights, there needed to be a way for users to exchange ideas across borders, Hopkins said. He said the online streaming of video offers an opportunity to break free of the limits of the TV spectrum, where “content becomes very base and mean, and hence you get things that tend to cater to the average viewer.” Hopkins said he initially arranged a meeting with Summers to discuss what it would take to convince the former treasury secretary to participate as an expert on the site. Summers raised concerns...
...Unaligned strategists say that Romney will undoubtedly continue his stream of "comparison" ads, that his best bet still is to depress McCain votes - a tactic that may work well in Michigan because it's a state where Mike Huckabee will again find a strong base of Evangelical support. The McCain camp, however, vigorously disputes that interpretation. "We're thrilled Huck's on the air in Michigan," one McCain adviser says. "He takes votes away from Romney that we would never...
Perhaps even more important for McCain in Michigan is the decision of Huckabee to compete there. Michigan has a substantial evangelical population, one that Romney has courted assiduously. Huckabee's appeal to that base may take votes directly out of Romney's column...
...Hampshire, the contest - and the spin - will only get more hysterical as it moves to Nevada (Jan. 19) and South Carolina (Jan. 26). It remains to be seen which was the exception: Iowa's surge of young and new voters for Obama, or a return to the expected Democratic base turning out for Clinton in New Hampshire...
Both by virtue of who he is—an African-American, a relatively young candidate, a fresh face with an unconventional background—and because of his efforts to win voters outside the traditional Democratic primary base, Obama’s candidacy has drawn into the political process many people who have never supported a candidate before. He is able to give them, for the first time, an investment in their government and a sense that the political system is responsive to them...