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Both 350HP930 and Beethoven have good points here.

350: I wondered while the vid was loading why it was not being run on TV either. Maybe they wanted to 'try it' on the site first. The mainstream media picked right up on it. Then I thought that maybe it was a troll to get people to their site. I checked, no cookies or spyware were placed on my puter after being there. I think you are right. They wouldn't (yet) dare show it on TV.

Beethoven: I don't know if backfired is the right word, I think the directed response was not what they wanted.

There was an interesting editorial this morning.

Took the last 'great campaigns and isues' (back to Woodrow Wilson, the first real media test) and after the election asked what the real issues that mattered were to the voters.

Funny thing. Every single one turned out not to be 'the economy, but rather international relations'. That included wars and 'skirmishes', which they said were 'almost wars, or territorial disputes that portended a war'.

If the Bush gang should be worried about anything today, it's not the economy, I think. Just look at the tenor of the arguments in here. The most vociferous ones are over the Iraq War (or Dino vs Synthetic), not the economy.

Todd: A couple of months ago, I would have bet that we would delay the handover. Since the situation has deteriorated lately, I think the handover will go as scheduled.