CivicActions

Over the last few days there were some emails traded back and forth internally about the 2008 US Presidential race. We've got an international team and some of the folks who do not live in the US, as well as some who have relocated to the US were expressing some level of bewilderment about the way we do things here. The following was my email response, written while watching the Republican Debate and subsequent coverage during my flight from NYC to Seattle (on Jet Blue, love those TVs!):

The LCV is raising money to run two advertisements for the presidential race. The ads don't favor any particular candidate, rather aim to raise possibly the most important issue facing American's today: How will we change our country's policies to preserve the habitability of our planet for future generations.

Not on our site, but on political blogging sites. There is truly some useful content out there, and interesting points of views, I just wonder about the value of the time spent commenting on blogs. I caught the story about the Edwards Coulter exchange on Hardball yesterday and then saw a post about it on The Caucuses. There are 108 comments. Basically taking 1 of three views (well I only sampled about 9% of them ;-).

Paul Krugman has had two great columns recently in the NYT. Unfortunately they are buried behind a pay-wall. In "Authentic?

CNN ran a report on their blog about presidential politicians' efforts to secure domain names for their efforts. Among the list of candidates covered in the story was Tom Tancredo.