Around the Tubes 8/10/07

We may have a couple big announcements here over the next couple days. Stay tuned. In the meantime, here's what's going on around the interweb.

• Free Exchange on Campus rips apart this glossy poster that you can get free from Young America Foundation. Mine is already in the mail.

  

• Just when a new survey by the ONE Campaign finds that:
  

  More than nine in ten Democrats (93%) and 84% of Republicans agree that when millions of children around the world are dying from preventable diseases and hunger, we have a moral obligation to do what we can to help. Similarly, Democrats (90%) and Republicans (85%) agree that it is in keeping with the country’s values and our history of compassion to lead an effort to solve some of the most serious problems facing the world’s poorest people.

  When it comes to addressing these issues, Democrats (86%) and Republicans (67%) agree that it is important for Presidential candidates to discuss their plans for addressing global hunger and poverty issues in this campaign. Additionally, eight in ten Democrats (81%) and Republicans (80%) agree that the next president should keep the commitments made by President Bush to prevent and fight the spread of AIDS in Africa.

  - members of the Republican National Convention tried (and failed) to remove the party's support for One Vote '08, the ONE campaign's program to move issues of global poverty into the US election. Yet another awesome bit of strategery from Republicans, and one that the kids, I'm sure, will love.

• Live Earth wants your feedback on what they should do next.
• The Uptake reports that the DNC in Denver next year will be the most open convention ever, with just about everything streamed over the web. Very soon there's going to be a big push to get young people elected delegates to the DNC. It might be interesting to see if a couple of those young folks would consent to broadcasting their entire convention experience - even the process of getting elected a delegate - a la Justin.TV. Or at least get a crew together and cut a short documentary. If it came out more Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail than Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, I'd watch it.