Obama/Clinton update

NYT: Clinton and Obama playing catch-up on policy ideas
April 18, 2007. Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns are now playing catch-up on policy ideas. John Edwards, who’s running third in fund-raising and the early polls, has tried to grab attention by releasing a series of specific proposals.
<http://blog.johnedwards.com/story/2007/4/17/234546/287>
John Edwards ‘08 Blog:
<http://blog.johnedwards.com>

National Primary Poll Averages
By Chris Bowers
These three charts produce three different margins between Clinton and Obama: 7.33%, 6.33%, and 10.33%. It would not be accurate to average these three gaps, since some polls are included in more than one of these averages. …
<http://www.mydd.com/story/2007/4/18/132340/390>
MyDD
<http://www.mydd.com>

Barack the House Link Party – 04/18/07
By Neil Jensen
Barack Obama — Clinton’s chief rival for the Democratic nomination, according to the early preference polls — has kept pace with her fundraising juggernaut. And in some ways, Obama’s first-quarter take was more impressive than that of …
<http://vermontersforobama.org/2007/04/18/barack-the-house-link-party-041807/>
Vermonters for Obama
<http://vermontersforobama.org>

USA TODAY POLL: Obama Catching Up with Clinton
By Christopher
Corporate America and the mainstream media might want to delay the coronation of Hillary Clinton. There’s every indication of a dramatic shift in the presidential race and his name is Barack Obama. In the latest USA TODAY/Gallup Poll, …
<http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/2007/04/18/usa-today-poll-obama-catches-up-with-clinton/>
From the Left
<http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com>

What Obama and Clinton Fans View Online
Tacoda paired its data with ComScore’s to determine what visitors to Hillary Clinton’s and Barack Obama’s campaign sites look at elsewhere online.
<http://clickz.com/showPage.html?page=3625610>
ClickZ News
<http://clickz.com/>

raw research notes

Appendix

Neurological/Logical Levels

These levels are considered to be a hierarchy,

with spirituality at the top and environment at the bottom,

each level involving more of an individual’s neurology.

– Carol Harris, NLP Made Easy

Transmission – externals


Universe


Planet


Profession/Community


Family


Internals

mission: Identity – who


permission/motivations: Beliefs/Values – why


direction: Capabilities – how


actions: Behaviour – what


constraints: Environment – where/when

futurephone & iowa telcos

Here’s what was said on October 9th, on Lifehacker.com about the Futurephone service:

Make free international phone calls sans Skype with Futurephone, a company that’s just got to be bleeding money.

The service doesn’t run ads or ask for personal information. They simply provide an access number based in Iowa – so domestic long distance charges apply – that you call with any old phone and then dial your international number through.

Nobody could figure out exactly how Futurephone.com was making money. At first.

Check out the February 7th, 2007 entry on Gigaom.com:

Guess who got stuck with a big bill for all those “free” international calls touted by outfits like FuturePhone? None other than AT&T, which has filed a lawsuit in Iowa claiming that “deceitful and unlawful schemes” like FuturePhone’s caused a jump from $2,000 per month to $2 million per month in the fees billed AT&T by an Iowa rural telco.

Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Iowa, Central Division, AT&T’s lawsuit seeks to stop FuturePhone as well as the telcos who provide local infrastructure from continuing with their operations that use regulatory-fee arbitrage and VoIP to provide international calls for only the price of a long-distance call to Iowa.

And feel free to look through the rest of the entries on this case at Gigaom.