Tech President Standouts

Earlier this week, USA Today ran through the highlights:

• Obama used the Web to organize a national "walk for change" day. His campaign says 10,000 people canvassed neighborhoods across the country Saturday to build local support networks.
  

• Hillary is asking online voters to pick her campaign song. Her latest video shows comical clips of what she ironically calls "truly wonderful" suggestions (singers wailing "metal girl" and "bring sexy back"). "I'm so gratified that all of you thought this was such a wonderful idea," she says, followed by clips of men calling it "ridiculous" and "insulting."
  

• Romney's adult sons write a "Five Brothers" blog that reinforces the former Massachusetts governor's "family values" theme.
  

• McCain posted his college basketball picks during the NCAA tournament's March Madness, urged supporters to submit theirs and offered a free campaign fleece to the best prognosticator.
  

• Biden uses video clips at www.headtohead08.com to compare himself with rivals on issues.
  

• Edwards and Dodd offer RSS feeds of their campaign-event calendars.

Then there's Ron Paul and Fred Thompson.

Update (6/18): The Boston Globe adds its take (and introduces an interesting word, velocious, the adjectival form of "velocity").

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The Daily Digest

Continued Coburn courage: the junior senator from Oklahoma is blocking a resolution to honor Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring, by erroneously linking DDT to cancer, galvanized the anti-DDT movement that, to this day, deprives millions of malaria-stricken people of their best hope for a cure.

Meet Chris Dodd, the senior Democratic senator from Connecticut who is struggling to break free from his second-tier status among the presidential hopefuls.

With his trademark coolness, Matt Labash introduces us to John Cox. John who? The "sane fringe candidate" running for president. Bravo to the Weekly Standard for devoting four pages to the guy, about whom Labash writes, "[E]ven while he makes plenty of noise about the need to seal our borders, the corrupt Mexican government, and a crackdown on businesses that hire illegals, he will not set his hair on fire by becoming a pandering immigrant-basher. . . . 'I refuse to lower myself,' says Cox. 'I'm a businessman. I've got clients. I'm not going to make myself out to be a buffoon.'"

The Washington Times hosts a blogger roundtable on the political impact of blogs.

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