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CAMPAIGN SCORECARD [This article contains a table. Please see hardcopy of magazine.] ROUNDS 1 2 3 4 ISSUE Party Unity Patriotism and Leadership Grass-Roots Support Foreign Policy ACTION Barack Obama holds a so-happy-together event with Hillary Clinton and snags a $4,600 contribution from the former First Couple. The left stays (mostly) mum as Obama jogs to the center on key social and security issues. John McCain has a warm photo op with Billy and Franklin Graham, but he still lags behind with Bush donors. Obama leads up to Independence Day vouching for his love of country...
...1920s the Tour included more than 100 cyclists from throughout Europe. But as the competition grew fiercer and the race more commercialized, champagne and nicotine gave way to more effective--and insidious--performance boosters. In 1967, British rider Tom Simpson died midrace after taking amphetamines, prompting the event to adopt drug-testing. In 1998 authorities disqualified the Festina team after finding the red blood cell--boosting drug EPO in their car. The winner of the 1996 race, Bjarne Riis, admitted in 2007 that he had used EPO, just months before Floyd Landis became the first Tour winner stripped...
...Obama fund raiser was clearly not off-the-record. The Clinton rope line was a public event. These are really the new rules of engagement. Citizen journalists are expanding the coverage of campaigns...
Here's an interesting thing about the traditional media: very often they break great stories, and then they ignore them. It takes the blogosphere to pursue the story, to do all the things that turn a story into a major event...
...controversy: when world champion Takeru Kobayashi was unseated last year by American Joey Chestnut, who ate 66 dogs to Kobayashi's 63, the Japanese nosher was allegedly hobbled by a jaw injury. ("I believed he was fully recovered," Chestnut said.) Top eaters train for months before a big event, and for good reason - this year, some 40,000 fans are expected to come watch Kobayashi and Chestnut face off at Coney Island again, and the winner will take home...