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Blog Roundup: Clinton, Colbert, and Spears |
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Almost everyone I know thinks Obama has a shot at winning both Texas and Ohio. And hell, he very well might. But I can't help but thinking there is a lot of expectation control coming from the Clinton camp. Chris Bower's has the polling numbers and Clinton's latest statement. I'll have more on this later this weekend.
Future Majority looks at the "Colbert Bump:"
It turns out that the much-fabled "Colbert Bump" is real. In a paper titled The Colbert bump in Campaign Donations: More Truthful Than Truthy (pdf), James Fowler, a political scientist at UC San Diego proves that Democrats appearing on the show receive 44% more money in the month following the appearance than those who do not appear.
And finally, Circus 68 draws a fascinating, if odd connection between September 11th, American pop culture, and the evolution of Britney Spears:
Britney Spears, once America's darling sweetheart. She was wholesome, sweet and virginal. She, more than anything else, represented the wavelength of pre 9-11 American naivety. She unassumingly paced the American tempo, proclaiming the importance of family values, religion, the sanctity of the institution of marriage, monogamy, material wealth, and the list goes on and on. She was American Values personified and plastered across our televisions, movie screens, magazine stands, etc. in the guise of the cute girl next door in pig tails and short shorts.
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It was on September 11th, 2001, that everything changed. Our would as we knew it came crashing down around us with the demise of the world trade center. The beacon of our American dreams and capitalist imperialism was destroyed along with our innocence and naivety. We had to wake up and acknowledge the effect we were having on the world existing outside of America. And not surprisingly, as the political climate in America changed so did our Britney.
Has Britney personified our decent into the paranoid, dangerous world we think we live in post-9/11? I must admit, I've never thought of it that way, but it almost makes sense.
Do you agree?
