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September 8, 2005

Is the DLC's Pick to Run Against Santorum Really the People's First Pick

By Rob Kall

Ed Rendell, Chuck Schumer and other DLC dems claim Bob Casey, jr. is the messiah who will bring a democratic win to the promised land. But the statistics say otherwise.

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Back in 2003, when moveon.org ran a internet primary among the democratic presidential candidates, I used www.alexa.com to predict that Dean would win. The night before the results were released, I called the Dean campaign, told them my findings and they tell me they celebrated early. The next day they called me back, awed that my stats predicted the results within one percentage point.

Currently, the same stats I used to predict the internet democratic presidential primary shows Pennacchio far ahead of Casey. We know that this didn't mean Dean won the real primary, but it change the early stages of the race and brought Dean extraordinary media coverage.

I invite you to check the stats I’m referring to

Here are the stats for Pennacchio’s website:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=http://www.chuck2006.com

And here are the stats for casey’s website.
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=http://www.bobcaseyforpa.com/

Note that Pennacchio’s website ranking is much higher -- Pennacchio with a three month rank of 804,518 with Casey barely on the map at 2,392,694.

Pennacchio’s reach per million is much higher at .55 to 1.5, with Casey’s best showing at 0.1. This is in spite of the fact that Casey gets far more press coverage than Pennacchio, which should turn into more visits

Then there’s the poll that was run on the super-blog www.dailykos.com in which Pennacchio beat Casey 57% to 42%. http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/25/184849/196

These facts and data suggest that interest in Casey is weak, that the media are basing their heavier coverage of Casey upon the hype created by the centrist democrats (republicans in democrat clothing, if you ask me) and that Pennacchio, while underfunded, as is to be expected of an underdog grassroots candidate who is refusing PAC money, he does have a strong base, with over 4000 supporters on his mailing list, offices in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Bucks County and a growing list of endorsements from local organizations. http://www.chuck2006.com/info.asp?content=endorsements .

Authors Bio:

Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.


Check out his platform at RobKall.com


He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity


He's given talks and workshops to Fortune
500 execs and national medical and psychological organizations, and pioneered
first-of-their-kind conferences in Positive Psychology, Brain Science and
Story. He hosts some of the world's smartest, most interesting and powerful
people on his Bottom Up Radio Show,
and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and
opinion sites, OpEdNews.com


more detailed bio:


Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness and empowering them to take more control of their lives one person at a time was too slow, he founded Opednews.com-- which has been the top search result on Google for the terms liberal news and progressive opinion for several years. Rob began his Bottom-up Radio show, broadcast on WNJC 1360 AM to Metro Philly, also available on iTunes, covering the transition of our culture, business and world from predominantly Top-down (hierarchical, centralized, authoritarian, patriarchal, big) to bottom-up (egalitarian, local, interdependent, grassroots, archetypal feminine and small.) Recent long-term projects include a book, Bottom-up-- The Connection Revolution, debillionairizing the planet and the Psychopathy Defense and Optimization Project.


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