THE PLANK JANUARY 1, 2008
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Everyone's already noted the surprising findings about Obama and Huckabee in the final DMR poll. But it's an unsurprising one that pleases me most: Fred Thompson is polling in the single digits and is tied with Ron Paul.
In case you missed it over the holiday weekend, you should read Mike's tragicomic pre-obit of the Thompson presidential campaign. Given what Mike witnessed, it's easy to think Thompson would actually be relieved by a fifith-place finish in Iowa, since it would give him an excuse to tell his wife that he's dropping out right then and there.
P.S. By the way, it's not modesty--but something else, alas--that's stopped me from linking to all the posts I wrote last year ridiculing the idea that Thompson was some sort of Republican savior. I'm so rarely actually right about something. And now I can't even engage in a little New Year's boasting.
P.P.S. Ah, here's an example of my prescience. (Sorry Chait.) The New Republic might not have TNR's archives, but the Free Republic does!
--Jason Zengerle
4 comments
"--but something else, alas--" (link to "Blame Canada!" South Park clip).
Okay, Jason, at the risk of sounding totally dense or completely un-hip....
...I don't get it.
- sullydog
January 1, 2008 at 3:52pm
CanWest, who bought the New Republic are the people responsible for the redesign of the website, and the subsequent (and seemingly unresolvable) loss of their archives.
- WesMcGee
January 1, 2008 at 11:29pm
Sully, CanWest purchased TNR this past year. While the writing and editorial oversight haven't seemed to change much since the purchase, certain infrastructural changes--at least pertaining to the website--have really blown.
Seriously, two comments I slapped onto the Boragrting Obama story never showed up. These intertubes programming dohickies shouldn't be that hard.
- ilnoca
January 1, 2008 at 11:36pm
Archive access was touted as one of the benefits of subscribing to the online TNR. In other words, a subscriber benefit I paid for (and continue to pay for) was removed. No refund was offered. Not a notice nor an apology.
I will return the TNR "screw you" customer service by not renewing my subscription after years of subscribing.
- lgongaware
January 3, 2008 at 2:51pm