Feingold To Donate Money To Candidate Who Defeated Lieberman

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Feingold To Donate Money To Candidate Who Defeated Lieberman

POSTED: 12:29 pm CDT August 9, 2006

WASHINGTON -- Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold is donating $5,000 to Ned Lamont, the anti-war candidate who defeated three-term Sen. Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic primary.

Feingold was the first senator to call for a troop withdrawal timetable from Iraq.

How many others will follow suit?

"candidate who defeated Lieberman" = "Lamont"

Simultaneously funny and sad.

name. I'm assuming not everyone in the country was as attuned to this race as we were, and the news value of the story is the name. It's a hook more likely to grab the casual viewer's attention.

The layout editor gives the headline writer a vertical and horizontal dimension, and the headline writer must use the paper's standard fonts to fit a headline into that space. Unlike your home "desktop publishing," they wont squash and stretch to make it fit...the add and subtract words/letters.

Do a letter count for yourself...

Lamont.

candidate who defeated Lieberman.

Obviously, Lamont was too short to fill the alloted space. So the headline writer writes and re-writes the text until he come up with a balance of clarity, accuracy and most importantly -- real estate. Look at your daily paper tomorrow. It isn't a happy accident that all the headlines fit almost exactly into the space their alloted (unlike in movies, where newspaper headlines never seem to fit the paper).

All these rich fucks passing money back and forth to each other as if it matters.

Yay, Russ. Sincerely, glad to hear it.

But, Christ, who are we all kidding? Every one of these guys can pay their own way just fine. Ned needs $5000? He can take his loose change jar to the machine at the grocery story and he'd have that in no time. Russ' money, or Hillary's or any of the entrenched's, is for purely symbolic reasons, and for press-release fodder for the respective campaigns.





Okay, rant off.

Thanks, Russ!

at least it's being done. when someone like russ donates money it lends lots of credibility to lamont's campaign. this is nothing but good news.

I'm just sayin'...the charade of the multi-millionaires needing money to campaign is, well...whatever. Maybe if they just stopped spending it, they wouldn't need it. In adjusted dollars, did candidates always have to spend a brazillion dollars on LOCAL elections?

I am at work and can't really research it right now, but it would be interesting to see what a Presidential, a congressional, and a local election cost at different periods in our history.

Even in adjusted dollars, my guess would be that even Presidential elections back in the day (say pre-1900) were probably a heck of a lot cheaper.

In "the olden days" you didn't have to reach that many people because...well, you couldn't! Today, you can't just advertise and campaign in the neighborhood, you have to spread the message far and wide.

there's got to be a better way. the taxpayers don't seem to want public financing, however, once they realize money buys influence ......nah, they still won't care.

Or should I call it 'the news wire service that didn't print those doctored photos'?

clark/feingold 2008 absolute perfection.

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For the amount of times it seems that this poor excuse for a president has had to announce againa & again that he has "mis-spoken", usually by Rice.

I hope Feingold wins in the primaries.