This is making the frontpage everywhere all day, so I’m compelled to drop in my two cents.
Youtube turns video to shit. You give it nice source material, it gives you garbage. In fact, it will happen to any video you stuff through a youtube-sized pipe.
Most flash-video sites use a very low bitrate (contrast quality there [...]
Obama will be in town tomorrow night for a ‘Stand for Change‘ Rally at the George R Brown Convention center:
Stand for Change Rally with Barack and Michelle Obama
George R. Brown Convention Center
Hall B3
1001 Avenida de las Americas
Houston, TX 77010
Monday, March 3, 2008
Doors Open: 8:00 p.m.
Registration required to attend.
The Christian Science Monitor discusses the effect of a heated Democratic primary in driving renewed interest in the Democratic Party itself. The visibility of the contest is bringing Texas Democrats back into public life after a long hibernation of assumed irrelevance:
For most of his life Ken Stubbe has voted for Democrats for president. [...]
The crowd started gathering about 4:30 — more than an hour before doors opened.
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Obama continues to become more competitive in Hillary’s firewalls, mirroring his increasing, statistically significant national lead.
CNN/Opinion Research:
Clinton 50
Obama 48
Of course, things are still in rapid flux as both candidates start campaigning seriously in the state, which is shaping up to be the most important prize in this contest — Texas contains enough delegates to tip [...]
Several major candidate and surrogate events in the city this week:
Obama “Stand for Change” rally at Toyota Center — Tuesday, 6pm (registration req’d)
Morning Bill Clinton “Early Vote Rally,” at Galveston County Justice Center — Wednesday, 8:30am
Evening Bill Clinton “Early Vote Rally” at University of Houston Hoffheinz Pavillion — Wednesday, 8:45pm
Bill Clinton fundraiser at Hyatt Regency [...]
Over at DailyKos, kath25 has a fantastic liveblog — with pictures! — covering today’s opening of Obama’s Austin HQ.
Barry O pulled Texas’ largest and perhaps most influential paper today, the Chron:
Of the two finalists for the Democratic presidential nomination, the Chronicle believes Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois is best-qualified by life experience, skill and temperament to be the standard bearer for his party. In a conference call, Obama told the Chronicle editorial [...]
The first competitive Texas Presidential Primary in a generation slipped into high gear today as Clinton kicked off her Texas Campaign with a rally in El Paso today, pledging to “Sweep Across Texas” for the next 3 weeks. The first prong is a new Spanish ad, “Nuestra Amiga:”
English transcript:
Our voice and our [...]
The delegates awarded tonight will likely place Obama ahead of Hillary in terms of combined pledged and superdelegates. While it was expected Obama would win all three, the margins are beyond what was expected, particulary in VA. The remaining February contests, also likely to fall for Obama, show continued momentum that Hillary may not be [...]