Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers:<\/p>\n
* A conversation between John Edwards and Hillary Clinton was accidentally picked up<\/a> by a live microphone, and the two were overheard discussing excluding long-shot Democratic candidates from future events. In Detroit, the national NAACP convention featured speeches from the whole crew, leading Clinton to tell Edwards. “We’ve got to talk because they, they are, just being trivialized.” “They are not serious,” Edwards responded. The AP also heard<\/a> Clinton say, “We should try to have a more serious and a smaller group.”<\/p>\n * Richard Land, president of the Southern Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission, has been one of the many religious right leaders searching for a top-tier GOP candidate who isn’t a) a Mormon; b) a pro-choice adulterer; or c) John McCain. With that in mind, Land told<\/a> TV preacher Pat Robertson’s CBN yesterday, “My assessment is that at this moment in time it is Fred Thompson’s race to lose.”<\/p>\n * If Mitt Romney loses the race for the GOP nomination, clips posted to YouTube will have had something to do with it. In the latest embarrassing video<\/a>, put together by the Massachusetts Democratic Party, Romney is seen repeatedly distancing himself from the Republican Party during his 2002 gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n * Hillary Clinton is not usually considered one of the favorites among the progressive netroots, but she’ll be on hand<\/a> for the YearlyKos convention next month in Chicago.<\/p>\n