By: Suzanne Rosenberg In today's news from newspaper campaign blogs: Cell-phone only crowd and under-30 whites for Obama, Democrats and Republicans have Cable faves, and CQ predicts Dems could get a magic "60."
Cable Favs for Dems and GOP-ersOn Politics
USA Today
By Jill Lawrence
Democrats like Comedy Central?s ?The Colbert Report.? Republicans like ?South Park,? according to Nielsen Media, which has been looking into which cable shows are the most ?engaging? among self-identified Democrats and Republicans. ?Engagement? means the amount of attention paid to a show per the average viewer. Channel by channel the results are as follows: Discovery: Democrats, ?Deadliest Catch,? and Republicans, ?Cash Cab?; FX: Democrats, ?It?s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,? and Republicans, ?Damages.? Finally, on the SciFi network, Democrats, ?Tim Man,? and Republicans, ?Doctor Who.? One Bipartisan winner: A&E?s Benjamin Bratt drama ?The Cleaner.?
?Cell phone? only crowd and under thirty whites go for ObamaThe Trail
The Washington Post
By Jon Cohen and Jennifer Agiesta
A new Washington Post-ABC News tracking poll shows that Barack Obama is up 12 points over John McCain among white voters under 30, a complete about-face from 2004 when Kerry lost these voters by 10 points. Another group that may have been under-counted in this years election, those who indicated that they are ?cell only,? appear to be an even larger percentage of the Obama electorate (67% Obama, vs. 32 % McCain) giving Obama a 2-1 lead among those voters and significantly higher than the 54% to 45% Kerry received.
CQ predicts that Congressional Dems might snag magic ?60?The Swamp
Chicago Tribune
By Frank James
Congressional Quarterly predicted yesterday that Congressional Democrats could gain more than 20 House seats and perhaps even enough in the Senate to get ?the magic 60 filibuster-proof votes which would allow Senate Democrats to run fairly untrammeled over Senate Republicans,? according to The Swamp?s Frank James. House Democrats have put 73 of the 199 Republican seats in play. Republicans, according to CQ, the subscription publication that covers Capital Hill, is on the defensive this campaign. With two weeks left to go, there are 235 races and rated leaning Democratic 17, Democratic favored, 16 and safe Democratic, 202 which is one seat fewer than the party currently holds. Republicans are favored to win 176 seats, or 23 fewer than they now have, 25 leaning Republican, 25 favored Republican and 126 Safe Republican.
Dual Endorsements at The Philadelphia Inquirer The New York TImes
The Caucus
By Mitchell L. Blumenthal
The Philadelphia Inquirer was among those newspapers that endorsed Sen. Barack Obama for president this last week, giving Obama what is a 3-1 lead in newspaper endorsements according to E&P statistics. Oddly enough, however, appearing on the same page as the Obama endorsement was an additional endorsement in support of Sen. John McCain. Although there is no official comment from the editorial board itself, Mitchell Blumenthal of The Caucus reports that a source who asked not to be named said that Brian Tierney, the chief executive of the company that owns the Inquirer, Philadelphia Media Holdings, and who also sits on the paper?s editorial board, felt so strongly about the McCain endorsement that the editorial board came up with the unusual decision to include a dissenting editorial.
?Vast Right Wing Conspiracy? returns in MinnesotaBy Paul Kane
In Minnesota Tuesday night, while stumping for Democratic Senate Candidate Al Franken,
Hillary Rodham Clinton stated, ?Al Franken was taking on the vast right-wing conspiracy
before other people even admitted it existed.? Clinton went on to tell Franken?s supporters that with your help, ?Al Franken ... can be our 60th vote,? the magic filibuster proof number in the Senate, reported Paul Kane of the Caucus. More than 1,500 people filled the McNamara Alumni Center with another 600 in an overflow room, more than former vice presidential Al Gore?s appearance earlier this month.
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