Two to check out from the New York Times

For an interesting take on the sometimes complicated relationships between big-name bloggers and political campaigns, look at the Times story on how Hillary Clinton is trying to build a bridge to, of all places, the conservative Drudge Report http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/us/politics/22drudge.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

The Times also had a fascinating profile on the unlikely new governor of Louisiana, Bobby Jindal -- a 36-year-old policy wonk who is the nation's first Indian-American governor. As the reporter notes, the Republicn was elected "in a Southern state where race is inseparable from politics." http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/us/22louisiana.html?ref=politics