Casting the net - I *heart* Carnivals


by Aaron    
February 14, 2008 at 12:29 pm

Welcome to Casting the net, Liberal Conspiracy’s daily web review. As always, please feel free to share your own recommendations in the comments section. No NetCast tomorrow, as I’m in London on business.

St Valentine’s Day related blogging
Earthpal - Celebrating Love . . .
The Daily (Maybe) - V-Day
Kate Johnson/CiF - Love is all you need
The Yorksher Gob - Valentine’s Day
Caron’s Musings - A Valentine’s Appreciation
Lindylooz Muze - Valentines…………Yellow Roses………..and fanciable MPs

Highlights
Liberal England - The 58th Carnival of the Liberals
Jonathan Calder compiles the latest “Carnival of the Liberals”. CotL? Well, there is a blog and everything.

Uncool - Feminist Carnival #53
These carnivals are everywhere, eh?

Cassilis - Framing the ‘42 Days’ debate…
You can pretty much sell any illiberal legislation to the people if you “frame it” right.

OurKingdom - The future of England
I’m not sure *I* agree with this, but interesting nonetheless.

Chicken Yoghurt - The 5th Anniversary Of The Iraq Invasion Blogswarm
It’s time to remind those in charge that many opposed the invasion of Iraq.

Obsolete - Whodunnit?
With political assassinations again in the headlines, septicisle analyses the culture of conspiratorial killings.

Elsewhere
anticant’s arena - Human Rights under threat
Michael Tomasky/CiF - The walls are closing in, but is there still a chance to avoid the crush?
Richard Wilson/LDV - Filming the streets doesn’t catch criminals
Mind the Gap - Some thoughts on white privilege
Independent - A letter from the world’s Nobel laureates to China: You must act on Darfur
Jonathan Fryer - The Russians Have Come

BTW. The latest Realpolitik podcast is up. If anyone else has podcasts or videos they’d like plugging, drop me an email.

If you would like your blog or site to be considered as source material for future reviews, drop me an email at aaronh [at] liberalconspiracy [dot] org with the relevant url. I can then enter it into my RSS reader and monitor it for suitable content to be included. Likewise, if you have a specific article/post you feel deserves a little more traffic, get in touch.

· About the author: Aaron Murin-Heath is the deputy editor of Liberal Conspiracy. He is a writer based in Newark-on-Trent and Tallinn, Estonia. He is both socially and economically liberal. His main areas of interest are foreign affairs, culture, technology, and economics. As a father of two, he also writes about parenting. Aaron blogs at tygerland.net.
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at 1:39 pm on February 14, 2008
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     Lee Griffin

It’s interesting to note, talking about the Michael Tomasky article, that if Obama continues as he is with the smaller states, Hillary will lose on pledged delegates and so *should* lose the nomination. In fact Obama has already started using language that is challenging super delegates to even try to go against what the public have voted for.

The fact is this, with the delegate numbers in Ohio, Texas and Pennsylvania being so high Clinton still has a chance. A very small and very slight chance. An unrealistic chance in fact. She would need to win all three of those states by at least 50 points to even slightly be in the competition for pledged delegate winner, and then she’d need to reverse the trend of losing small states to winning them by margins of at least 25 points, in states that are either already Obama favourites or have been sliding away from Hillary.

In short I can’t see her winning this election any more, she will likely take Ohio and Pensylvania, and probably close to draw Texas one way or another, and this will likely give her a 100 pledged delegate boost by the time the end of April rolls around. Trouble is that by that time Obama is likely to have pulled ahead by roughly 150 pledged delegates, and the next event after that is North Carolina which looks like handing him back at least half of what he loses out on in Pennsylvania.

at 7:29 pm on February 14, 2008
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     Jennie

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