Sunday, March 15, 2009

Leadership 2009 - Week in Review, March 15

With little news in the Saskatchewan NDP leadership race this week aside from the announcement of the leadership forums, my initial plan for the latest Week in Review was to put together a roudnup of any blog posts about the campaign which had managed to slip under my radar (basically meaning blogs that don't appear in my Saskatchewan Blogs list or on the aggregators linked from Accidental Deliberations). But once again, the biggest news seems to be in the lack of much new to report.

For three of the four candidates, a quick look at Technorati tags and a Google search for "blog" and the candidate's name turned up a grand total of zero candidate-specific information. And that includes front-runner Dwain Lingenfelter - who certainly doesn't seem to lack for supporters eager to support his candidacy on posts here and elsewhere, but doesn't seem to have inspired a single original post outside the main Saskatchewan politics blogs since the race began.

So what did turn up? Well, there's one blog which I'll be adding to my own list of Saskatchewan blogs: Head Tale, which among other posts includes this roundup from the Regina forum which I discussed here.

And then there are two more Ryan Meili-related posts: this one from Prairie Saver declaring her intention to support Meili's campaign, and this one from Michael Charles with a fairly positive review from somebody describing himself as "not really ideologically or temperamentally a New Democrat".

If I've missed any other posts dealing with the candidates or the race, please feel free to point them out in comments. But it looks like there's a surprising lack of discussion taking place online so far - and a noteworthy tilt toward Meili among those who have put their thoughts up for public view.

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