Game Change Section Reaction

When I first started reading Game Change I was worried that it would be a boring chronical of the events of the 2008 presidential election. I can safely say that my fear of such a reality has been settled with Game Change's interesting behind the scenes analysis and unveiling of relationships that the mainstream media did not cover. For example as soon as Obama won the Iowa caucus, John Edwards staff contacted the Obama campaign and said they would be ready and willing to offer a Vice Presidential position from John Edwards. Such volatility in the early stages of a presidential campaign create interesting scenarios in which nothing is certain. The Clinton campaign was so pissed off at Obama's Iowa victory that they immediately brought the accusation of cheating to the table. They were unwilling to come to terms that they were throughly beaten and were now left with minimal funds and a third place finish. Ironically enough years earlier Hilary Clinton made numerous fundraising appearances in behalf of Obama's Senate election.

The first mention of a republican was a one liner which had a mud slinging tone. They noted that John McCain never made an attempt in Iowa and instead was in a town hall meeting that night telling an anti war protester that he was "fine with having troops in Iraq for the next hundred years". Zero context, the question was not included nor was a complete quote provided. I looked at the authors note to see who was behind this book and I found that both TIME and New York magazine were at the wheel. Time of course being the magazine which for awhile someone could play the odds on Obama's face being on their cover. Thats right, 24 appearances. Check out this cool TIME magazine appearance count bar graph. Click here.