Author: Rick Klau

As a follow-up to last night’s post, here’s a take from the opposite point of view: that given Dean’s considerable dominance of the race to date, he has the most to lose.

Couple of commentators just made an observation that I’ve been thinking about for a couple days now: that the inevitable shift in political coverage to California will almost certainly give the presidential race a breather. But what effect will it have on the race itself? In many ways, this breather will give each candidate a…

This is an interesting follow-up to the Franken/O’Reilly fireworks from June…. Yahoo! News – Funnyman Franken Fires Back at Fox’s Lawsuit NEW YORK (Reuters) – Humorist Al Franken fought back against Fox News Network on Tuesday over a lawsuit it filed claiming he infringed on its “fair and balanced” trademark by using the phrase on…

From today’s Note, we learn that Biden is not running: ABC News has learned that Senator Joe Biden’s office will issue a press release today saying that the six-term senator and 1988 presidential candidate will not run for president in 2004. Which leaves Clark…

John Robb’s Weblog VC webloggers. Introducing if you haven’t started reading them yet are: Tim Oren of the Pacificafund. Charles Hudson, formely of In-Q-Tel. Ventureblog, a group weblog. Geekfishing, a group weblog, and Martin Tobias from Ignition Partners. Rich Miller of Breo Ventures.

I’m at O’Hare, and will be boarding for San Francisco in a few minutes. Posts will probably be light until the weekend. Feel free to post whatever’s on your mind in the comments; I’ll check in when I can.

What a difference six weeks makes. Back in June, UVA polling guru Larry Sabato was claiming Dean didn’t belong in even the second tier, that he was a flash in the pan. Last night on Fox News, Sabato admitted that there is “no precedent” for what Dean has done, and that he is the only…

Now this is cool — my good friend Greg Siskind was the guest editorial writer in yesterday’s USA Today. How’d they get Greg to write the editorial? On a tight deadline, they searched the web. Greg wrote something on this subject three years ago. They gave him 18 hours to write 350 words. Trivia buffs…

Photo by Joe DeCock If you look closely, you’ll even see Eric Davis’s doctor’s coat signed by Governor Dean. (yes, that’s me on the left) All photos by Joe DeCock.

Mark Glaser took a critical look at the campaign weblog and comes away vaguely disappointed. He’s impressed at the community that has built up around the campaign blog, but is disappointed that Governor Dean isn’t taking advantage of the opportunity to post more often to his blog. Mark interviewed me on this subject, and includes…