{"id":210,"date":"2003-10-16T10:33:01","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T15:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2005-02-04T10:45:48","modified_gmt":"2005-02-04T08:45:48","slug":"transfixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/10\/16\/transfixed\/","title":{"rendered":"transfixed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> From <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/sections\/politics\/TheNote\/TheNote.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Note:<\/a> &quot;A new ABC News\/ Washington Post  poll  found that if the 2004 presidential election were held today, 46% of Americans say they would vote for President Bush, while 47% would favor an unnamed Democratic candidate &#8211;  a statistical dead heat and the president&#8217;s weakest showing in a generic horse race poll.&quot;<br \/>\nAnd, &quot;Tim Kraft, a man considered by some to be the father of the Iowa caucuses is now lending his organizational expertise and his rolodex of Carter supporters to the Dean campaign.&quot;<br \/>\nAnd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/news\/regionalnews\/8165.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> are some notes on what I&#8217;ve been saying all along about General Clark&#8217;s lack of specifics. Ah, the validation.<br \/>\nOn a non-political and art note, South Africa&#8217;s only national daily newspaper (new!), THISDAY, had a write-up yesterday about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wits.ac.za\/artworks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wits School of Arts<\/a> launch last Friday. My favorite part:<br \/>\n&quot;nathaniel stern&#8217;s interactive digital art installation, <a href=\"\/gallery\/stuttering.html\" target=\"_top\"><i>stuttering,<\/i><\/a> transfixed, with its ability to communicate in a human way.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Note: &quot;A new ABC News\/ Washington Post poll found that if the 2004 presidential election were held today, 46% of Americans say they would vote for President Bush, while 47% would favor an unnamed Democratic candidate &#8211; a statistical dead heat and the president&#8217;s weakest showing in a generic horse race poll.&quot; And, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me","category-news-and-politics","category-re-blog-tidbits"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9blZT-3o","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":830,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/12\/americans-favor-bushs-impeachment-if-he-lied-about-iraq\/","url_meta":{"origin":210,"position":0},"title":"Americans Favor Bush&#8217;s Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq&#8230;","author":"nathaniel","date":"12 October 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"...which we know he did. Thanks for the link, AmericaBlog. Impeach Bush! Poll: Americans Favor Bush's Impeachment If He Lied about Iraq | AfterDowningStreet.org What's most interesting to me is that a similar poll on Clinton turned up only 36% support for impeachment, but the right and the mostly-right-controlled media\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news and politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":310,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/07\/stuff-for-the-technical-art-geek\/","url_meta":{"origin":210,"position":1},"title":"stuff for the technical art geek","author":"nathaniel","date":"07 March 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"Tech \/ Geek \/ Art: Slashster - a slashdot version of friendster for geeks who want to keep in touch... Peter Jackson has a few new movies in the works, including King Kong (2005) and the LOTR pre-quel, The Hobbit (note that this latter link is to a slashdot internal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"art","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/art\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1014,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/15\/americans-support-impeaching-bush-for-wiretapping\/","url_meta":{"origin":210,"position":2},"title":"Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping","author":"nathaniel","date":"15 January 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"According to a Zogby Poll: Americans Support Impeaching Bush for Wiretapping. This poll was conducted by the highly-regarded and non-partisan polling company (Zogby), and interviewed 1,216 U.S. adults from January 9-12. Yes, Conservatives have been citing polls that say Americans feel they want to be listened to, but the ridiculous\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news and politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":467,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2004\/09\/29\/from-the-note-from-good-morning-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":210,"position":3},"title":"from The Note, from Good Morning America","author":"nathaniel","date":"29 September 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"ABCNEWS.com : ABC News' The Note: First Source for Political News DIANE SAWYER: The polls show 53 percent of the voters in the recent poll think that you change your mind too often. George Bush has 59 percent of a clear stand on the issues \u2019\u00c4\u00ee you have 28 percent.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;news and politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"news and politics","link":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/category\/news-and-politics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":188,"url":"https:\/\/nathanielstern.com\/blog\/2003\/09\/10\/clark\/","url_meta":{"origin":210,"position":4},"title":"clark","author":"nathaniel","date":"10 September 2003","format":false,"excerpt":"You know I'm a fan of Howard Dean for Prez (Dean wins straw poll at Democratic picnic), but Clark may be on his way and he is H-O-T. 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