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<UPDATE> [2008-01-07]: I still haven’t even come close to 130 subscribers, so I’m giving the shirts away without having reached my goal. Click here for details.</UPDATE>

Look at my Feedburner chicklet over there on the sidebar. Right now it says I have 71 readers. That’s not bad, though I think I can do better. I have a plan to encourage you to subscribe to the feed: give stuff away to feed subscribers!

I went to YearlyKos 2007 and picked up a lot of awesome swag. The coolest things I got were these two American Apparel t-shirts:

This is the SIZE LARGE NAVY BLUE shirt I got from Media Matters:

You can click on the thumbnails to view larger images.

This is the SIZE MEDIUM BLACK shirt I got from Brave New Films:

You can click on the thumbnails to view larger images.

Here’s how you can get your pick of the shirts, mailed to you at my expense:

1. Subscribe to my Feedburner Feed using your favorite RSS reader
2. Check the footer messages in my feed. These messages will not be visible to people who read the blog directly. Only people who subscribe to the feed will see these messages.
3. After 130 people have subscribed to my Feedburner feed, I will put special instructions in the footer message on how to get one of the two shirts.
4. Be the first person to follow the instructions, and have your pick of the two shirts.
5. The remaining shirt will be given to a respondent chosen at random.

These shirts are men’s sizes, and you can view the American Apparel sizing chart here to see which of the two will fit you best.

Tom Swan at YearlyKos

Tom Swan managed Ned Lamont’s campaign for U.S. Senate last year, and was a speaker at the “Ned Lamont: What Really Happened?” panel at YearlyKos. In the video clip below, Tom is asked “what happened in those first days after the primary?”

Ned Lamont at YearlyKos

As promised yesterday, here is a short clip from the full panel video.

This past Friday in Chicago, Ned Lamont made a surprise appearance and spoke briefly at the panel regarding “what really happened” during his campaign for U.S. Senate.

On a somewhat related note, NedLamont.com was re-launched on 8/8/07 with a new look, a new message from Ned, and most importantly some new tools for staying involved. The new site is definitely worth checking out.

Ned Lamont Panel at YearlyKos

I mentioned previously that I attended a panel called “Ned Lamont: What Really Happened?” The panel was broadcast on the web by USTREAM.tv but for some reason is not available on their website (most of their other YearlyKos clips are). Now that I’m home, I have uploaded my uncut 73 minute video of the panel discussion for those of you who are hard core enough that you just have to see it.

The problem with the video is that I didn’t pack my tripod. The majority of the video is steady, but when I have to shift my weight or move the camera — next stop, shakesville. Thanks to some advice from CT Bob, I’ll be investing in a telescoping table-top tripod that will fit into my carry-on.

So here’s the full video:

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_{This is my first time using Veoh. It may take a very long time to process this video, so please be patient. If Veoh doesn’t end up working, I will upload the video to another service and update this post. Veoh isn’t up to snuff. Sorry for the delay, but the video is now available on Blip.TV (above).}

I’ll have a couple of shorter clips tomorrow, namely Ned Lamont’s surprise appearance and Tom Swan talking about the post-primary campaign.

For those of you who prefer the audio, here’s an MP3 of the panel as recorded by my iPod — I haven’t listened to it all the way through so I can’t speak to its quality or completeness, but I’m sharing it because I’m that kind of guy.

Who Regrets Voting for Joe?

TParty at My Left Nutmeg and Jonathan Singer at MyDD are raising a valid question that bears repeating here. Basically, if you could do it over knowing what you know now about Joe Lieberman’s record (voting for and supporting the surge) versus his rhetoric (“nobody wants to end the war in Iraq more than I do”), would you vote for him again?

This past weekend at YearlyKos, a very similar question was posed by Jesus’ General. Unfortunately, the General was not actually in the audience — he ordered one of his soldiers to ask it on his behalf. The question he wanted answered was “What are Lieberman’s popularity numbers now in Connecticut?”

Tim Tagaris and Tom Swan answer the General’s question in the video below:

Update 2: Per a request in the comments, here is a rough transcript of what Tom Swan is saying in the above video. It’s probably helpful to read along while he’s speaking:

Tom Swan: Lieberman is in the low 50s which is about as low as he’s ever been. I think Quinnipiac did one a few months ago … there hasn’t been one I’ve seen recently maybe Survey USA. The level of disdain towards Joe as Liz said before about buyer’s remorse … Many people, the majority of voters were over 47 years old which meant that they probably voted for Joe six times previously between Attorney General, that was his third run for Senate, and Vice President, that’s five times. …on a statewide basis they had a history of voting for him…a certain level of comfort in it. They didn’t want to feel bad. But if we had it to do over again I think we’d kick his ass.

Update:*****I made a mistake, and put the wrong date in the video! The correct date is 8/3/2007, not 8/4/2006.*****

Ned Lamont on Chris Dodd

Ned Lamont came out to Chicago this past weekend for the YearlyKos convention — and he wasn’t running for anything. He came to support our Democratic Senator Chris Dodd at Saturday’s Presidential Forum and subsequent breakout session.

So I asked him to tell me why it was so important for him to travel halfway across the country to support Chris Dodd. The video below is his response: