Disclosure: I worked for the Lamont campaign doing web design and production and some writing for the official blog (from 9/5/06 to 11/07/06).
Friday, June 09, 2006
Friday Evening Round-Up
- It's so great to be able support a candidate who people just genuinely seem to like and respect as soon as they meet him. I've said it before, but it's the polar opposite of reactions to Joe.
- Tom Gogola of the New Haven Advocate asks "what, exactly, does Joe Lieberman think about gay people?" and comes up with a few possible answers.
- Paul Bass of the New Haven Independent takes a detailed look at the connections, similarities, and - hopefully differences - between the Lamont 2006 campaign and the Dean 2004 effort in Connecticut. I'd add: one similarity is that the more people see Joe campaign, the more his support drops. One difference is that Lamont, unlike Dean, seems to grow on people and is hard to demonize. And it's worth remembering (as Bass does) that Dean actually ended up beating Lieberman in the CT primary anyway.
- Eleanor Clift takes a look at Lieberman's no-win position on Iraq in a web commentary for Newsweek.
- Just saw some coverage on C-SPAN of Yearly Kos. Lotta Ned Lamont t-shirts and buttons visible there. Tim must be a popular guy.
posted by tparty at 6:09 PM 
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The Bass article on the Dean/Lamont similarities was very good.
I take slight exception to the comment that "Lamont, unlike Dean, seems to grow on people..." EVERYONE I know who has met and talked with Howard in person has found him immensely likeable and down-to-earth. Unfortunately, most people didn't get to meet Howard Dean -- they met a caricature of him in the media that said he was prickly, angry, intemperate, etc.
I think a really important lesson to learn from the Dean campaign is in media management. From what I've seen, the differences between the CT political journalists and those on the national beat is *immense*. Local journalists look beyond the simple sound bytes, beyond the totally surface caricatures.
It's important for us in the Lamont netroots to continue to have a positive and collegial relationship with reporters, because it can make or break a campaign.
I take slight exception to the comment that "Lamont, unlike Dean, seems to grow on people..." EVERYONE I know who has met and talked with Howard in person has found him immensely likeable and down-to-earth. Unfortunately, most people didn't get to meet Howard Dean -- they met a caricature of him in the media that said he was prickly, angry, intemperate, etc.
I think a really important lesson to learn from the Dean campaign is in media management. From what I've seen, the differences between the CT political journalists and those on the national beat is *immense*. Local journalists look beyond the simple sound bytes, beyond the totally surface caricatures.
It's important for us in the Lamont netroots to continue to have a positive and collegial relationship with reporters, because it can make or break a campaign.
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Unfortunately, most people didn't get to meet Howard Dean -- they met a caricature of him in the media that said he was prickly, angry, intemperate, etc.
Right, and Ned is much harder to caricature like that (Joe tried early on to do so and failed). Not having ever met Howard, I can't comment on what he's like in person. But it's obvious, for whatever reason, that Ned comes across better to reporters (even the WSJ guy liked him).
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Right, and Ned is much harder to caricature like that (Joe tried early on to do so and failed). Not having ever met Howard, I can't comment on what he's like in person. But it's obvious, for whatever reason, that Ned comes across better to reporters (even the WSJ guy liked him).
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