The Hinterland
Rants from the hinterland. Denver writer and pretend anthropologist Dave Cullen's take on the world.

Wednesday, August 20, 2003


Server trouble yesterday

The server for Salon blogs was down most of the day yesterday. So sorry. I would tell you more if they could tell me more. They say that before the problems of the last week, they had only one previous problem since the blogs launched last summer (in April, when spammers attacked and overloaded the system). Hopefully this is the exception.
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Dean breaks away in New Hampshire

After running neck and neck with Kerry in NH the past few months, Howard Dean has suddenly leapt way out ahead, 28% to 21% in an AP poll. That's a 33% lead in the state Kerry was expected to take easily.

(As an MA senator, his Boston TV ads have been beaming into most NH homes for years--so he has effectively campaigned there his entire Senate career. Dean is also from a neighboring state, but with a fraction of the campaign budget. He has not been buying much Boston TV time the past decade.)

Gephardt was way back at 10% and Edwards and  Graham just pitiful at 2%. (And another story in the last day showed Edwards had spent the third most time in the state.) Unannounced Gen. Wesley Clark was 1% above Kucinich, Moseley Braun and Sharpton, all at 0%.

And then there's Lieberman. He stood at 11% in June, which was pretty sad, considering he's also from the region and had by far the highest name recognition. This month, he plunged all the way to 4%. Joe does have the momentum, just all in the wrong direction.
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