Hillary's Book Tour And Other Updates On Candidates' Movements
Okay, here's a quick update on the planned movements of Hillary Clinton and a few other Presidential hopefuls:
* Hillary will be on the morning shows next week promoting the new release of her book, "It Takes a Village." She's doing NBC's The Today Show on Monday and The View on Wednesday.
* Dem Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack will appear on The Daily Show on Monday night.
* GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter of California is headed to Iowa tomorrow for a pheasant hunt for backers of his political action committee, which is called "Peace Through Strength." We wonder what the pheasants would think of that slogan.
* GOP Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will hold a gala $500 per person Christmas fundraiser in Arkansas this weekend for his Hope for America PAC. The event is expected to be an early indicator of whether Huckabee can raise the funds needed to compete in a national election.
* Al Gore (okay, he has "no plans" to run, but still) is scheduled to have a live conference call with thousands of MoveOn.org members gathered at nearly 2,000 screenings of Gore's movie on Saturday night.
* And Dems Bill Richardson and Joe Biden are heading to New Hampshire this weekend.
I thought it was interesting that John Kerry promoted Al Gore's movie screenings and conf. call to his massive email list of supporters.
December 15, 2006 2:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
Kerry's been trying to snag the MoveOn constituency for some time. His filibuster attempt was a step in that direction.
December 15, 2006 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think it is interesting how both Gore and Obama are using hi-tech methods to reach out to voters. This makes it very plausible to generate a winning campaign by touching the Gen X and Y voters via the electronic mode since they are very comfortable with that. It makes it possible for a politician to get way more hits at voters than traditional TV ads and for far far less money.
I suppose that is why Congress wants limits on internet access. This new poitical machine totally busts the lock that big money donors have on who is elected President in this country.
This makes me extremely happy, particularly in light of GoreIII comments on why his dad would not run.
Seems to me that Obama and Gore are doing an end round around the part of politics they have come to loathe and which has cut off the American people from control of their on government.
Go Gore
Go Obama
December 16, 2006 9:54 AM | Reply | Permalink