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Barack Obama is a Frontrunner
categories | Phillies, frontrunners
I think I’m late on this, and sorry if it is old news, but according to the Katherine Seelye at the New York Times, the Phillies’ bandwagon has picked up a pretty high profile member: one Mr. Barry Obama. The Senator for Illinois announced his pick during an interview with Philly’s own Mikey Smerconish broadcast last friday.
Mr. Obama assured Mr. Smerconish that he wasn’t picking the Phils just because he was talking to a local audience. Rather, he said, his campaign manager, David Plouffe, “is a huge Phillies fan.” And since his own fave, the Chicago White Sox, are out of the race, he said he had to go with his campaign manager.
Take that Pat Sajak!
via Big League Stew
[...] Barack Obama > The World Series categories | Uncategorized Fox News, bastion of all things Good and American has decided to preempt the start of Game Six of the World Series for a prime-time, half hour Barack Obama advertisement. Seriously. They’ll make more money this way.Major League Baseball has moved back the scheduled start time of game six of the World Series so Fox can join CBS and NBC in airing a half-hour Barack Obama advertisement on Oct. 29, network and league sources said.[snip]Fox now joins CBS and NBC in airing the half hour program, the content of which the Obama campaign has declined to describe.I’ve never heard of a network ad buy from a presidential candidate quite like this before, but it isn’t unheard of for a network to move the timing of an event around to accommodate political requests – in September, for example, the start of the NFL’s opening-night game was moved to a 7 p.m. to ensure that the game would be over when McCain accepted the Republican party’s nomination.Still, the real story here is that we’re finally making that next big step towards the elimination of television during election seasons. And that’s fun.In other news: Obama is pulling for us in the nightcap [...]