WHAT'S NEXT: INNOVATIONS IN NEWSPAPERS

Before the debate:

Massive press bullying against Nick Clegg.

Gordon Brown: groggy.

David Cameron: lost in the campaign’s fog.

After the debate:

Winner: Cameron.

Big loser: Clegg.

Sky: better than itv, but both below average.

The moderator: A fatty Adam Boulton with too much food or drinking before the debate. ITV’s Alistair Stewart was quite better.

The best: lies in the Labour leaflets.

The worst: the bashing of Catholics.

What’s clear: Clegg lost momentum

In summary: Labour is out, bur Conservatives still are not in.

the third debate will be crucial not for Brown or Clegg, but for Cameron.

In a post-debate poll, for The Sun, 36% of viewers said Mr Cameron won, with 32% for Mr Clegg and 29% for Mr Brown.

Mr Brown was up 10% on last week’s YouGov instant poll, Mr Cameron up 7% and Mr Clegg down 19%.

UPADTE:

After reading this morning newspapers it’s clear to me that Brown has to resign, Clegg replace him, become the Labour candidate and he will win the elections.

This will be Lord Mandelson’s nigthmare!

Barack Obama is celebrating today his own birthday (48)

Like reporter Helen Thomas (89)

So he went to White House Press Room where there she was: seating in the front row.

The oldest working journalist in Washington DC told him that her birthday wishes were “world peace and a real health care reform bill.”

Obama carried cupcakes into the room where reporters were with his spokesman, Robert Gibbs, at the daily briefing.

Watch the video here.

As a White House correspondent for the United Press International, Thomas began covering the Kennedy White House.

Thomas resigned from UPI the day after the announcement of its acquisition by the Unification Church leader Reverend Sun Myung Moon.

Since then she works for Hearst Newspapers as a columnist

Bush didn’t like her, and she didn’t liker him either.

She wrote:

“As he leaves office, President Bush is passing on to his successor two wars and a growing economic debacle. What a way to go!”

Usually dressed in red she is invariably the first or second reporter the president calls upon.

And she is the one that still carries the tradition of closing the White House press conferences by saying, “Thank you, Mr. President”

She is the author of Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times (Scribner, 1999)

Happy birthday fierce Helen!

(Picture by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

This Getty picture shows an unexpected kind of meeting in the White House.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden invited Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and the man who arrested him, Sergeant James Crowley, to have a beer.

What the photo captions don’t say is that Obama had a Bud Light (American, 4.2% alcohol), Biden a Bucklers (Netherlands, 0.5% alcohol), Gates a Sam Adams Light (American, 4.2% alcohol), and Crowley a Blue Moon (Canadian, 3.2% alcohol).

The Drudge Report says:

FLASH: It looks like Hillary’s last, best chance of closing delegate gap is slipping away tonight. With clock running out on her, if she couldn’t make up ground this week, it’s impossible to imagine scenario where she could…

Well, this is the end.