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Bloga Culpas: The Kennedy Endorsement
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On Friday, following Ben Smith's careful nugget about Hillary Clinton's worry about a Kennedy endorsement of Barack Obama, I reported that people close to Kennedy were convinced that he would remain comfortably neutral. Well, the truth hurts, Drebin, and readers deserve an explanation.
I based my report on several sources, one of them being a person close to Bill Clinton, who said that, in conversations with Kennedy, the former president had come to believe that he would not endorse. (That source stands by Clinton's perception, and today, an adviser to the Clinton campaign said that Kennedy had told Democratic elected officials close to the Clintons that he would not endorse.)
Perhaps the radio silence from the Obama campaign should have tipped me off. They did not respond to my requests for comment. I can't say I wouldn't do the same thing in the same scenario, but to the extent that my reporting seemed in any way to denigrate Ben Smith's, I regret very much that perception.
We were both dealing with provisional information. But Ben was right. And I was not.
Some of you who actually read political blogs on Sundays might have also noticed that the first version of a report on Gov. Kathleen Sebelius's impending endorsement of Barack Obama said it would happen in Tuesday in Kansas. That last part of the report was not correct, and within three minutes of posting it, I removed.
Sebelius will endorse Obama; the details of the endorsement are under wraps, at the moment.
I based my report on several sources, one of them being a person close to Bill Clinton, who said that, in conversations with Kennedy, the former president had come to believe that he would not endorse. (That source stands by Clinton's perception, and today, an adviser to the Clinton campaign said that Kennedy had told Democratic elected officials close to the Clintons that he would not endorse.)
Perhaps the radio silence from the Obama campaign should have tipped me off. They did not respond to my requests for comment. I can't say I wouldn't do the same thing in the same scenario, but to the extent that my reporting seemed in any way to denigrate Ben Smith's, I regret very much that perception.
We were both dealing with provisional information. But Ben was right. And I was not.
Some of you who actually read political blogs on Sundays might have also noticed that the first version of a report on Gov. Kathleen Sebelius's impending endorsement of Barack Obama said it would happen in Tuesday in Kansas. That last part of the report was not correct, and within three minutes of posting it, I removed.
Sebelius will endorse Obama; the details of the endorsement are under wraps, at the moment.
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