Thanks to Al’s Monday Meeting blog,  http://poynter.org/media/rss/als_morning_meeting.xml, you can find out the names and emails of the DNC meeting Saturday to determine the nomination for if Mich and Florida primary votes will be counted. Funny, I though elections were covered under the US Constitution. Maybe it’s time to order my Remember Al Gore shirt.

To find out more about the elections, from a research and polling perspective, Pew Institute has some interesting reports:

General Election Matchup: Political Problems vs. Personal Negatives: While Barack Obama has opened up a wide lead in the Democratic primary, he now runs about even against John McCain. The tightening general election matchup between Obama and McCain shows some sullying of Obama’s personal image over the past three months, despite his primary victories. Over this period, unfavorable views of McCain have risen as well. Read more at http://pewresearch.org/pubs/853/mccain-obama-negatives

Covering the Campaign: Character and the 2008 Primaries:
A new analysis of media coverage during the first 10 weeks of the 2008 primary season finds the dominant personal narratives about Obama and Clinton were almost identical in tone, and were both twice as positive as negative. The coverage of McCain’s character was less positive than that of either Democratic candidate. Read more at http://pewresearch.org/pubs/853/mccain-obama-negatives

Public Focused On Obama
Fully half of the public said Obama was the candidate they had heard the most about in the news, while only 8% said the same of McCain despite a significant increase in news coverage of his candidacy, in this week’s News Interest Index. Read more at http://pewresearch.org/pubs/851/public-focused-on-obama

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