Campaign Notes

If Obama gets elected it will be because he seems to have struck a chord with a certain age group across the country. One might scoff at the idea of finding good reporting in the Wall Street Journal, but while their editorials are written by wizened trolls with bad breath, their reporters often produce some of the best reporting around. But the reporters don't get to write the headlines, so at first glance the story looks as though it is going to be a predictable hit piece from the corporate right.

This is a good example: downbeat headline and leader, but a quite insightful and balanced article, telling a story that other news media are probably not going to get around to even thinking about until a year from now. If ever.
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And highlighting meta-trends for 2008, this article has some interesting facts:

1. 22 million Democrats have turned out for their primaries, only 14 million Republicans bothered. That is better than a 3:2 advantage. That's 61% to 39%.

2. The article quotes a GOP pundit as saying the Republican Party "Is going through a transition". Yes, so it would appear.

3. As a strategy to halt the slide in enthusiasm the GOP in Ohio has lists of gun owners to send mailings to. That's daring.

Arthur