Who is being attacked?

Workout notes 5 miles of walking; 31 at 2.5 miles, then 29:12 for the last 2.5. My first mile was 13:17 so my last 4 was done in 46:55. My knees were fine.

Then, I went back and escorted Barbara for her last .5 or so; she was tired, red faced, etc. But she seemed to like her new spandex “skort”. But this time, she didn’t get lost; I’ll have to keep on her to keep up her activity.

On my end, I finally worked up a good sweat!

Politics Poblano writes an interesting election statistics blog. Today he has an interesting article on “who is getting attacked more by who” (hat tip to SeaChange for pointing this out).

I looked at the press releases from five sources: the Clinton campaign, the Obama campaign, the McCain campaign, the RNC, and the DNC, and counted the number of times that McCain, Clinton or Obama was mentioned in the headline of the press release. (For Obama press releases, which tend to have vague headlines like “Barack Obama Statement on Iran”, I also counted hits in the press release abstract). Then I sorted the hits by the month of the campaign from September onward.

These figures were tallied by hand and so may be slightly imprecise, but you should certainly get the general idea. Also, this should be obvious, but the idea was to account for attacks only, so I didn’t count instances in which say a DNC press release mentioned Clinton, or a McCain release mentioned McCain himself.

In short, no one is picking on poor old Hillary. So much for her being “ganged up on”.

So, let’s see how this will be spun as “being unfair to Hillary”; oh yes, she is being ignored, and that is being sexist!

I suppose it is time to check the boiling pots for rabbits.

Spot the Snark!

One of these three videos is snark; the other two are, well, “serious.”

Can you tell which is which?