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Campaign 2008 coverage focused on the two frontrunners. As Hillary Rodham Clinton celebrated her 60th birthday, CBS' Jeff Greenfield made her very frontrunning status the topic of his analysis. His network's opinion poll showed her with a commanding lead (51% v 23%) over nearest Democratic rival Barack Osama. "How," wondered Greenfield, "did so controversial, so polarizing a figure come to dominate her party's race for the nomination?" Greenfield offered a four-part answer: she appeals to the middle class; she has convinced her party's base that she will get troops out of Iraq; she embodies toughness and perseverance; and she has claimed "the mantle of change for herself."
On NBC, Ron Allen followed up on an analysis by The New York Times of the neo-conservative foreign policy team advising Republican Rudolph Giuliani. His "supporters insist that it is a policy that projects strength," Allen observed. Specific recommendations made on the record by his advisors include security profiling of Moslems at airports, a repeal of the ban on assassinations by the United States government--and bombing Iran. Commented MSNBC political analyst Pat Buchanan, a so-called paleo-conservative: "A vote for Rudy is tantamount to a vote for permanent war."
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