Bird’s-Eye View

I love Election Day. Thay may go without saying since I’m a political reporter, but there’s a moment every time America votes when we just don’t know what will happen. There’s an hour after polls close when anything is possible, and you wait with anticipation for the returns because maybe, just maybe, voters will surprise […]

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Greetings, Nesters. I know I haven’t written much in the last week or so of the campaign, and really, what is there left to write about? The stump speeches have been delivered 10,000 times by both Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, the strategies really don’t change in the last days leading up to […]

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Strange sighting during today’s rally for Republican John McCain.
When you’re a member of the press and you show up to cover a rally, you flash your press credentials and then the campaign gives you its own pass, usually with the candidate’s slogan or name on it.
Today, the McCain campaign handed out laminated blue cards with […]

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I saw on at least two Talkback forums some questions raised about the estimated crowd size during yesterday’s Barack Obama rally in Buchanan Park. The article in today’s Intelligencer Journal reported 15,000 people came out to see and hear the Democratic presidential nominee, and that number didn’t sit well with a few participants on the […]

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Ugh.
Arrrgh!
Those words summarize how I felt regarding F&M and Obama’s WiFi connection. Usually reliable, the connection was eradict, and therefor I apologize to Nest visitors hoping for a live blog of Obama’s appearance in Buchanan Park.
More later. Gotta write an article.

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The Nest is breaking for a rest. A week off is ahead of me, and I’m going to take it. I might check in now and then, but I’ll be back in full force after Labor Day. Enjoy the last days of summer, all.

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That’s right, Nesters. Today is Bruce Springsteen Day at the Nest because I’m shortly heading up that highway choked with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive. Springsteen comes to Hershey for the first time in his career, and I’ll have the privilege of covering the show. Sometimes, journalism can be a charmed life.
I won’t […]

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Quite a discussion grew out of the “Obama as Messiah” post, so I wanted to make visitors to the Nest aware of an article by Time.com’s Amy Sullivan on the same topic, and she also sees the McCain ad as a play toward the evangelical vote.

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I enjoy watching John McCain during townhall meetings, and the York event will mark the third one I’ve covered. That’s where McCain’s most comfortable, interacting with people, even if the question comes off as a criticism and that leads to some verbal jousting. He truly is a person whose energy and persona is done an injustice […]

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Anybody else sick of all the attention paid to what this surrogate said or what that surrogate didn’t say? Gawd, I’m jaded with cable news coverage of what surrogates like Wesley Clark, Charlie Black and the Rev. Jessie Jackson spew whether on or off camera.

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