A Super Bowl Primary
What a week for overhype and buzz! We have the Super Bowl this Sunday, and today, the voters in New Hampshire are prepared to send a message to the rest of the country: Kerry OR Dean OR Clark OR Edwards. As of this writing Verbal Jazz heard that Clark was in the lead with 14 votes coming out of Dixville Notch, NH, where the traditional first ballot of the primary is held.
Verbal Jazz also heard that John McCain was stumping for fellow Republican, George W. Bush (when asked McCain said it was because he was "asked"). Verbal Jazz finds this development a bit odd since four-odd years ago, the Bush campaign ran a pretty good hatchet job on McCain in the South. Also, McCain's "anger management issues" received the same rabid media attention that Howard Dean enjoys today. Anyway, the NPR report featuring McCain also had some fun at the expense of Joe Lieberman, who has been trying to liken himself to McCain in an effort to gain Independent voters.
Verbal Jazz has also noticed that we have a split media. The sports journalists have gone to Houston to cover Super Bowl XXXVIII between the mighty PATRIOTS and the Carolina Kitty Cats (Verbal Jazz assumes that no one on the Carolina Panthers bothers to read this Blog and therefore will not have locker room fodder). The Political journalists have gone to balmy New Hampshire to cover the first primary (or Primary Primary) of the 2004 election. What say in 2008 we have Super Bowl XLII in New Hampshire the same week as the Primary? It would foster an environment of cross pollination in which sports journalists could pontificate over the reliability of the Zogby polls versus the reliability of the Vegas spread and the injury report. Well, then you would have to build an NFL caliber football stadium in New Hampshire and show the Quarterbacks casting their official primary ballot.
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What a week for overhype and buzz! We have the Super Bowl this Sunday, and today, the voters in New Hampshire are prepared to send a message to the rest of the country: Kerry OR Dean OR Clark OR Edwards. As of this writing Verbal Jazz heard that Clark was in the lead with 14 votes coming out of Dixville Notch, NH, where the traditional first ballot of the primary is held.
Verbal Jazz also heard that John McCain was stumping for fellow Republican, George W. Bush (when asked McCain said it was because he was "asked"). Verbal Jazz finds this development a bit odd since four-odd years ago, the Bush campaign ran a pretty good hatchet job on McCain in the South. Also, McCain's "anger management issues" received the same rabid media attention that Howard Dean enjoys today. Anyway, the NPR report featuring McCain also had some fun at the expense of Joe Lieberman, who has been trying to liken himself to McCain in an effort to gain Independent voters.
Verbal Jazz has also noticed that we have a split media. The sports journalists have gone to Houston to cover Super Bowl XXXVIII between the mighty PATRIOTS and the Carolina Kitty Cats (Verbal Jazz assumes that no one on the Carolina Panthers bothers to read this Blog and therefore will not have locker room fodder). The Political journalists have gone to balmy New Hampshire to cover the first primary (or Primary Primary) of the 2004 election. What say in 2008 we have Super Bowl XLII in New Hampshire the same week as the Primary? It would foster an environment of cross pollination in which sports journalists could pontificate over the reliability of the Zogby polls versus the reliability of the Vegas spread and the injury report. Well, then you would have to build an NFL caliber football stadium in New Hampshire and show the Quarterbacks casting their official primary ballot.
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