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Breaking the Obama Fever

By Jeralyn

The Washington Post reports Obama Fever may be breaking. A rash of new Internet sites have cropped up which the Post says, show "Obamamania may be hitting a wall."

It's the nature of the Web -- and, really, of life. What goes up must come down. What's popular becomes too popular. What's seen as hip and hot and cool eventually gets mocked. Even, yes, Barack Obama.

Two of the sites named by the Post:

• Is Barack Obama the Messiah
• Obama is Your New Bicyle

Some of the sites, like the Bicycle site, are by Obama supporters.

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On another Obama note, earlier we wrote about Obama's criticism of the 527 PAC putting out ads for Hillary in Ohio. The New York Times reports a 527 PAC from California, PowerPac, has sent out $150k of mailers for Obama in Texas. But, of course, it's different.

For Mr. Obama, the Powerpac.org effort is a bit awkward. His denunciations of special interest money have been a campaign centerpiece and the Obama campaign has asked Powerpac.Org and a sister organization, Vote Hope, to stop their activities on his behalf. But the campaign’s pleas have come to no avail.

Update: On Obama's Wisconsin win, MSNBC reports Obama outspent Hillary on ads 5 to 1:

Obama spent more than $1.5 million; Clinton spent $300,000. That, folks, is quite a gap.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 23, 2008 (boomark / email).