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• What is the role of the news media?

  Like most of you, I have been overexposed to the tv news media for the last few days. And, as several of you have commented, I much prefer the relative sanity of the print media. Still, I find myself wondering why they both insist on covering polling... Posted Jan 10 2008, 09:57 AM by KTrapani with | with 10 comment(s) Filed under: Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire Primary, the media

• Democracy at work: The Iowa results

  One out of two isn't bad... I told you Mrs. Clinton might be a distant third and she was. What I missed was more important: a black man won a Presidential preference caucus in a white state. And, by doing so, Barack Obama proved that this process... Posted Jan 03 2008, 10:35 PM by KTrapani with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire Primary

• Today, we begin to change for the better.

  Tonight, it will be 19 degrees in Iowa, a dramatic improvement over last night. And about 120,000 Democrats will go into homes, schools and churches and choose, in full public view, the presidential nominee of their party. Across town, in a slightly different... Posted Jan 03 2008, 01:45 PM by KTrapani with | with no comments Filed under: Iowa caucuses, values