2008 campaign
"Primal Code for Brand Romney."
The Boston Globe snags 77 PowerPoint slides of inside analysis of Mitt Romney's strategy: Dated Dec. 11, the blueprint is wide-ranging and analy…
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2008 campaign
Meanwhile... Obama versus Clinton.
Obama's getting all the money. But Hillary's got a former President to help her. How will that go? Over the next three days, the political w…
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2008 campaign
"Tommy Thompson told Jewish activists Monday that making money is 'part of the Jewish tradition."
Oops! (Thanks to Eric Muller for pointing this one out to me.) Well, now, how bad is this one? It's not "nappy-headed hos" bad. It'…
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2008 campaign
Political ads.
Someone asked me to explain why I've got an ad for Rudy Giuliani over there. Same reason I have an ad for Widener Law School a little further dow…
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2008 campaign
"He's totally eclipsed. Nothing he says is going to be important for anything that happens in the next 12 months. The speech is a nonevent."
Did you watch the State of the Union Address? We did, talking over it a lot of the time. How can we feel that a man who is President doesn't mat…
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2008 campaign
Stirring up doubts about Rudy's judge-picking tendencies.
The LA Times reports the evidence -- served up by his conservative opponents -- that Giuliani, as mayor, appointed some liberal municipal judges. Th…
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2008 campaign
TV alert. UPDATE: Cancelled.
I'm going to do some Super Tuesday commentary tonight on C-Span, some time between 8 and 9 ET. Help me think up some things to say. UPDATE: Well,…
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Hillary's strange way of opposing the South Carolina flag.
Speaking yesterday: "I think about how many South Carolinians have served in our military and who are serving today under our flag and I believe…
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2008 campaign
Let's everybody talk about Trump's "schlong."
1. He's making us do this. He's brilliant at causing the media to revolve around him, and this is a big one. He tossed off a funny word as if…
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2008 campaign
Hillary Clinton and the Iraq war.
The NYT Magazine has an article adapted from Jeff Garth and Don Van Natta Jr.'s new book "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodh…
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2008 campaign
Mitt Romney names his favorite novel: "Battlefield Earth."
Either he's really naming what actually is his favorite novel -- would a serious candidate do that? -- or there's some idea that it serves h…
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2008 campaign
When a blogger goes to work for a presidential candidate.
Two bloggers -- Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan -- get their dream job with a presidential candidate, causing his opponents to comb over their bl…
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2008 campaign
A panel next week at Dartmouth.
If you're in the area, you might be interested in attending. If not, you can bet I'll blog about it. "Mass Communication for the Masses:…
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2008 campaign
The slow-motion non-firing continues.
The second Edwards blogger quits. (Via Memeorandum .) I would like to make very clear that the campaign did not push me out, nor was my resignation …
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Tom Tancredo at the Tea Party convention: "Thank God John McCain lost the election."
"In Tancredo’s view, the Tea Party movement would never have been sparked under a McCain administration because Republican Party leaders and act…
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"I am not President Bush. If you wanted to run against President Bush, you should have run four years ago."
That's #112 on Jac's list of 120 "moments" from the 2008 campaign. (He's been putting these up over a number of weeks , and #10…
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2008 campaign
Big debate tonight.
Did you know? Well, pay attention. And comment here, if you're watching. UPDATE: Is anyone watching? Based on the comments so far the answer is …
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2008 campaign
"Primal Code for Brand Romney."
The Boston Globe snags 77 PowerPoint slides of inside analysis of Mitt Romney's strategy: Dated Dec. 11, the blueprint is wide-ranging and analy…
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