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...Everyone knows that the attendance at Yearly Kos by so many traditional politicians (we?re also going to be treated to speeches by Tom Vilsack, Howard Dean and Harry Reid) assures bloggers? place in the political universe. Shortly before Moulitsas?s speech, Joe Trippi gropes for the right metaphor, comparing politicians? courting of this nascent movement to the presidential primaries: ?No one wants to skip Iowa.? Yet the politicians especially seem to be figuring it out as they go along - fear of missing the boat outweighs doubt about its final destination. Clark gives his speech on American innovation...
...members questions. Republican Bill Frist, another potential 2008 candidate, has talked to the bloggers who run powerlineblog and instapundit, two big conservative sites. John Edwards had a group of about 10 key bloggers to his home for a dinner last year. Warner, Reid and Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack, another potential 2008 candidate, will all head in June to Yearly Kos, a convention Daily Kos is organizing in Las Vegas...
...Daily Kos and left for a trip to Iowa, one of his online staffers, Nate Wilcox, stayed around to respond to questions. (Some people still wanted to hear more from the candidate himself. "The comments were valid criticisms," says Warner. "You?re supposed to interact in real time.") Vilsack has hired Kevin Thurman, a 26-year-old Internet consultant, to help him meet with bloggers on education, an issue the governor is keenly interested in. A Frist staffer named Stephen Smith, 24, meets regularly with the Republican Senator and keeps him updated on what the blogs are talking about...
...security. Hillary Clinton has worked hard as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, but no matter how well-versed she is in military affairs, she still hasn't earned the kind of instinctual trust needed to earn votes on that front. The governors Mark Warner and Tom Vilsack don't inspire that kind of confidence either. Only dark horse Wesley Clark has the kind of credibility that Dems want, but he has other political shortcomings...
...aggressively push his censure proposal in the months ahead, as his Democratic colleagues have already warned him it?s a bad political move for the 2006 congressional elections - which, of course, come before 2008. With these factors in mind, it?s worth remembering prominent governors like Iowa Democrat Tom Vilsack, Virginia Democrat Mark Warner and Massachusetts Republican Mitt Romney, some of the people who are running for President but may have a leg up because they don?t work in the U.S. Senate...