By: Suzanne Rosenberg In today's review of newspaper campaign blogs: Clinton bows out of anti-Ahmedinjedad rally, iPods are used to lure Catholic youth to polls, People Magazine's best and worst dressed list, and hopes for a return of "non-political" science to the White House.
Palin "in," Clinton "out" of UN rally
The Trail
Washington Post
By Ann E. Kornblut and Colum Lynch
Although reported in numerous leading blogs that both Senator Clinton and Governor Palin would both appear at the anti-Ahmedinejad rally at the United Nations next Monday, Clinton has decided not to attend. She had committed to attend the rally having supported the umbrella of Jewish organizations sponsoring the event previously, and believes that the issue is an important one to her constituents. She withdrew once she learned that the event organizers had extended a last-minute invitation to Gov. Palin and then stated that she did not want the event to take on a partisan tone. Although Gov. Palin has no record of interest on issues involving Iran, Kornblut and Lynch of the Trail point out that her advisor and debate prep coach does. Mark Wallace left a position as the Bush administration's representative for UN Management and Reform earlier this year and became executive director of United Against Iran, an organization established this summer to draw attention to Tehran's nuclear ambitions.
iPods used by Bishops to lure faithful youth
By Michelle Boorstein
Catholic voters, who make up approximately 20% of all voters, have been aggressively courted this year by both political parties. As in most election years, the American bishops put out documents meant to guide the faithful in their choices. This year's guide, called "Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship," is aimed at younger Catholics who, as Michelle Boorstein points out, are increasingly Latino and who account for half of the Catholics under the age of 40 in the United States. In an effort to get these Catholic Americans and to familiarize them with their voters' guide, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops are giving away free digital recording devices to a randomly selected person who registers on the guide's Web site. They also announced that it had put a video quiz about its position on YouTube and a page on Facebook. Representing the Bishops is Steve Angrisino, who is popular among Christian youths and who asks in the YouTube video, "The Catholic Church is involved in politics because ? yo? A. We have nothing better to do? B. We love going to Washington D.C.? C. To defend human life and protect the weak and the vulnerable?..."
People magazine's fashion statement
On Politics
USA Today
By Jill Lawrence
People Magazine's Best and Worst Dressed issue will hit the newsstands Friday and in it Michelle Obama has made People magazines list of the 10 best-dressed women of 2008. The magazine labels Obama "classic and confident" and goes on to suggest that she believes in "democratic fashion," shopping at stores such as the Gap and H&M. Sarah Palin's style is also discussed and the magazine suggests that she is "causing a run on rimless glasses, peep-toe pumps and sexy secretary-like updos across the country."
Return of Science to the White House?
The Caucus
The New York Times
By Cornelia Dean
Cornelia Dean of The Caucus reported today that an expert panel of the National Academies is urging both presidential candidates to restore the position of science adviser to the prominence it enjoyed before the current president took office. The panel also suggested that science, engineering, and health positions be filled expeditiously and according to professional expertise and integrity rather than politics or policy views. The results of this panel, led by a former Republican representative from Illinois, John Edward Porter, indicates the enormous dip which science and attendant issues have taken during the Bush administration's tenure. Neither Obama nor McCain have yet to comment on the panel's findings and recommendations.
"Push polling" returns to Florida's Jewish voters
Also noted in The Caucus by Katherine Q. Seelye, is a number of calls to Jewish voters in Florida delivering negative information about Senator Barack Obama. Calls made by a group called Central Research based in New York claims it is a political polling company. It has been calling Jewish voters in Florida, a possible swing state in the November election, asking questions and suggesting that Mr. Obama had a long relationship with pro-Palestinian leaders and that the church he attended had an anti-Israeli slant. The New Republic has a list of the questions asked since its writer was on the computer at the time he received one of the calls and Politico reports that the poll is sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition which, not surprisingly, is working on behalf of Senator McCain.
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