I don't know much about Rahm is this a yay?
He knows Washington, he's a talented Congress-wrangler, he's also a partisan pick. I just read an article over at cqpolitics arguing he isn't Change-y enough. I tend to disagree. I think there are gains to be made in looking like a magnanimous winner, but this is after all a Democratic administration, and most importantly, Obama will be working with a Democratic Congress. You want someone in the CoS role, I would think, who has a proven track record with said Congress.
He came out of the Clinton administration, too, so it's kind of interesting in terms of those politics, too. AND a Chicago guy, AND a congressman, as well as being the enforcer. Seems like a good plan to me.
So, my the Sun just responded to my complaint about them running old Doonesbury strips with this:
Sorry for the inconvenience. Doonesbury will be back tomorrow. We chose not to run the strip earlier this week to be fair in the days preceding Election Day. It should have returned Wednesday... My apologies.
What does that mean "to be fair in the days preceding Election Day" ??? They already run it on the Editorial page.
lisah, Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency, and apparently some papers balked at running them.
Speaking of Obama, my manager at B&N (the one whose BIL is a Secret Service agent on Michelle's detail) said that his BIL was going to try and get him and his family a photo-shoot meet-n-greet with Obama! Nothing definite yet, but he's keeping his fingers crossed.
Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency
I saw his strip yesterday announcing Obama and thought he'd submitted two different ones, just in case. I didn't knew he'd decided to roll the dice.
lisah, Trudeau submitted strips for this week that assumed Obama would win the presidency, and apparently some papers balked at running them.
No, I know. That's what prompted me to write. And it sounds like they allegedly meant to run that strip on Wednesday (where he'd assumed an Obama win) but didn't because they'd been running reruns on Monday & Tuesday. And they were running reruns on Monday & Tuesday because, somehow, running the strips he'd produced for this week would be "unfair."
No, that's not President Bush's approval rating. It's the number of counties that voted more Republican than in 2004.
Looking at the actual numbers on NYT map makes that Daily Kos map seem .... silly. Florida went from 52% Republican in 2004 to 48% in 2008. Idaho went from 68% to 62%. Nebraska went from 66% to 57%. If this makes the Republicans a regional party, what are the Democrats?
Actually, a cursory check suggests they're using 2004 as the baseline because that's the high water mark for the GOP.
