Clinton Sparks Theme Song Frenzy
You may have already heard that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants your help in choosing a theme song for her presidential campaign. According to her campaign team, more than 500,000 people have watched a video she posted on YouTube last week to launch the competition, and more than 100,000 votes already have been cast.
The nine nominees include well-known hits by the Dixie Chicks, Shania Twain and the Temptations, as well as two U2 songs (one of which was used prominently by Sen. John Kerry during his 2004 presidential campaign). Voters also have been given the option of supporting write-in candidates, which has inspired an American Idol competition of sorts on YouTube. One YouTube enthusiast got ink from McClatchy for suggesting that Clinton use a song titled, "Cancer in My Backyard."
But Clinton isn't the first candidate in the field to solicit music advice online. Fellow Democrat Chris Dodd has been looking for new tunes to put on his iPod for several months at DoddPod. I guess he could pick his theme song from the ones that have been suggested to him on the site. But some of them, like "She's a Lady" by Tom Jones, aren't exactly campaign theme song material. -- Michael Martinez
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