Las Vegas Review Journal To Back Obama
The Web site of the Review Journal, the largest paper in Nevada, is reporting that it'll be endorsing Obama tomorrow, claiming he's the "most viable of the remaining candidates for the party."
We'll be blogging the Nevada Dem debate, which starts in minutes, right here at Election Central.
Comments (17)
bnorth wrote on January 15, 2008 8:58 PM:That paper is the most right-wing rag in town. It's loathed by Democrats and its support will not help Obama.
john mccutchen wrote on January 15, 2008 8:59 PM:No kidding Obama's the most viable! Hillary's suppress the vote, race-baiting, and drug swift-boating stunts are just the latest in a string of blunders that this supposedly awesome and inevitable and irresistible machine has managed.
The vaunted Clinton machine manages at least one boner a week
No wonder George Bush proclaimed her
Ready to lead
Duane wrote on January 15, 2008 9:00 PM:He won't be the most viable when the Clinton Freaks are done savaging him.
That's probably why they're backing him. They're hoping it'll have a reverse psychology effect.
Anonymouse wrote on January 15, 2008 9:01 PM:Who is the Green candidate? If Hill wins this whole nomination, I'll be voting for them...
Obama's big Mo is back. The Clintons tried to muddy the water with the issue of race but it failed because Americans, Republicans, Independents and Democrats have put race behind them.
Here is another big endorsement...
In a coup for Barack Obama, The LA Times' Robin Abcarian has learned that Los Angeles labor leader Maria Elena Durazo, one of the most sought after endorsements in local Democratic circles, will support his presidential bid.Durazo is executive secretary-treasurer of the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, which represents more than 800,000 workers.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/01/score_a_key_cal.html PJ wrote on January 15, 2008 9:30 PM:
That Durazo endorsement seems like the bigger deal-- if the pundits are to be believed, prominent Latino and Latina supporters are going to be very important for Obama, especially in California.
Anyone know why Durazo is so coveted? Does "executive secretary-treasurer" equal "chairwoman"?
Mike timmons wrote on January 15, 2008 9:37 PM:Does this mean Gloria Steinem will not be "appearing" as a guest editorialist for that newspaper on the day of the primary, like she was for the NY Times?
I wonder who Hillary will dredge up in Vegas to get the aging feminists in line for her. Susan Sontag is dead, so it is probably Naomi Wolf time, even though she recently wrote a book called "the end of America".
Whoever it is, I wonder what sly feminist parlance she will deftly craft in order to tell all the girls it is OK to put the white lady in the white house, even if it means kicking African Americans to the curb. Once again, I guess they just have to wait their turn.
robbymack wrote on January 15, 2008 9:47 PM:
.... some background on this endorsement. The other newspaper that is included w/ the Review Journal is run by Brian Greenspun (the Las Vegas Sun), it is generally to the left of the RJ (a HUGE libertarian rag, not really representative of a single liberal/progressive value). Greenspun loathes the RJ and the feeling is mutual as this JOA is court mandated since the Sun used to compete with the RJ for decades. Greenspun is a Clinton supporter all the way and admits it proudly. Their editorial page will trump its endorsement of Senator Clinton after several more days of dismissing Obama in its pages (two today already along with a juvenile cartoon w/Obama as a student driver taking office on his first day getting lessons in the Oval Office.) In that context it's no surprise that the RJ would endorse Obama, Edwards is too much of a populaist for them. This is really gonna make me reconsider my support of Senator Obama whom I really want to caucus for on Saturday.
zr wrote on January 15, 2008 9:48 PM:The Review Journal may a right wing republican rag, but its the paper around here, so I think it means something. Or at least I am happy to see it make an endorsement I like once in a blue moon.
Mike wrote on January 15, 2008 9:57 PM:If the RJ is endorsing Obama, I, a longtime
Vegas resident, will definitely be voting for
Hillary.
"If the RJ is endorsing Obama, I, a longtime Vegas resident, will definitely be voting for Hillary."
Good idea. You should probably let conservative newspaper editorialists make your decision for you.
djangone wrote on January 15, 2008 11:19 PM:As a 20-year LV resident who currently lives in LA, I can confirm that Robbymack is dead-on...until that last paragraph.
Seriously, may I suggest voting for the person you most think would make a good candidate in the general, and beyond that the best president in 2009? Hatred of the RJ is a cultivated character quality. I have it myself in spades. But let's not take it too far.
Another factor informing the endorsement may be the age of the LV population. I can't say for certain, but the vast hordes of Westside oldsters, even the few who aren't doddering cranks who watch O'Reilly at max volume, are assuredly not Hillary-lovers.
What's more, endorsing Hillary, where the white community is frought with Rush-doting / Savage Nation Hummer-owners, would roil the RJ's ad-buying base. Their economic breadbasket is white business owners. The talk around the gin table at the country club would be quite shocking if they ever said flattering word one about the former first lady.
The other point that needs making is how much this endorsement matters. People in Las Vegas aren't quite up to the subtle nuances of our inside baseball. They're going to latch onto blindingly obvious 'handles' in the candidate's bag of signifiers. For many it'll be the Oprah thing, positively or negatively based on their own rorschach politics. For many others it'll be straight union. For others it'll be something inane, like the 'muslim' horsesh•t or Hillary's verklempt moment last week. It's not a brainy town. People don't move there to exercise their intellect; they move there to die, to grab easy opportunity or to get lucky, with all that implies for making informed choices.
Finally, I'd imagine that most LV residents are too new to know of the Greenspun-Donrey feud (they re-elected Lamb fer crissakes), though robbymack is right to point it out as one reason for the endorsement.
Jake wrote on January 15, 2008 11:21 PM:
Contrast with the Times:
http://acropolisreview.com/2008/01/rupert-murdoch-media-vs-journalism.html
Have you read the R-J "endorsement"? If Obama doesn't slam its wingnut hateful language, he's making a mistake. It dredges up Monica, Wiley, etc, criticizes Edwards for his critique of corporate greed, even disses Obama. It endorses him for being the "most likable". Jesus Christ!
Barack: run away! Run away!
ChrisNBama wrote on January 16, 2008 9:42 AM:Organizer is right! My God, I read the Review-Journal's so called "endorsement" and cringed. The Obama campaign ought, with the greatest haste, distance itself from this cynical nonsense.
The gist of the article is that, at least Obama isn't Hillary. There's a shot in the arm! I do tend to agree, however, with the notion present in the article that a Hillary general election campaign will be a replay of the greatest hits of the 90's (Whitewater, Monica, Filegate, Travelgate, and so forth). Hillary will be attempting to talk about the future, while vigorously defending her past from the Rethuglican slime machine. I simply don't see how she can be a "change" candidate in any meaningful sense, and the fact that she would be the first female President isn't change enough as far as I'm concerned.
Anyway, this is an "endorsement" worthy of satire in the best tradition of "The Onion".
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