Several of the shows are featuring surrogate battles.
Reporting on Libya has focused on the chaos that has ruptured the country into two rival governments and on their militia surrogates that battle for control over resources and power.
Hooray, George Stephanopoulos has actually showed up for work today, and he will manage a battle of surrogates between Rahm Emanuel and Marco Rubio.
It is a surrogate for the battle being waged in the United States over the basic way society should be organized and operate.
He understood, as Al Gore did not, that this was no time to be his own campaign manager; by staying at his ranch, and sending surrogates to do battle in Florida and on the airwaves, he avoided seeming grasping or obsessed with power.
Ann Romney and Michelle Obama, both important surrogates as the campaigns battle for an edge among women voters, have events scheduled for South Florida in the coming days.
By Samantha Henig July 2, 2010 The governor's race in Texas has national significance, with the Republican incumbent, Rick Perry, and his Democratic opponent, Bill White, the mayor of Houston, serving as surrogates in a bigger battle between this year's powerful endorsers, Sarah Palin and Bill Clinton.
The battle of surrogates is a very, very lame one, between Duck Durbin and Lindsay Graham, aka Chuck Schumer's Roommate and Jowly Dave Foley.
After several years of legal battles, the surrogate was given visitation rights, and the intended mother and father (the baby's biological father) were awarded custody.
But the race is the latest installment in the battle between the surrogates of the city's two Dominican elected officials: Assemblyman Adriano Espaillat and City Councilman Guillermo Linares, who cannot run again because of term limits.
