Either through good luck or good planning, the Edwards campaign put up its first television ad in Iowa today, just 36 hours after their man emerged as the consensus winner of the Democratic debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday night. The 60-second spot, entitled “Heroes”, uses clips of Edwards giving a speech as its soundtrack, with [...]
It looks like a fundraising smackdown is in the works. For the past few days, liberal bloggers have been complaining about Nancy Pelosi attending a fundraiser this Saturday for Maryland Congressman Al Wynn, who is facing a Democratic primary challenge from Donna Edwards. Edwards came surprising close to knocking off Wynn the last time around, [...]
The methodology of this poll by conservative journal Human Events is not exactly scientific (emailing a list of subscribers?), but the results are suggestive, if also a little surprising: Thompson 25 percent Giuliani 20 percent Huckabee 19 percent Romney 13 percent Hunter 8 percent Paul 8 percent Tancredo 5 percent McCain 2 percent I’m frankly [...]
A slightly counter-intuitive take on the Hillary Clinton brain trust, reminding you that what they’re actually good at is manipulating* communicating with voters, not the press: And a SwampCast flashback to how the strategy of addressing the audience, not the reporters, worked in Iowa. *”Manipulating” was a bad word choice. I really do mean that [...]
While at least one campaign is debating whether or not to release a bunch of old emails (and other documents) that are locked up in a building in Little Rock, Chris Dodd is sending new ones around to anyone with an address. The senior senator from Connecticut has yet to emerge from the bottom tier [...]
The overlap between science fiction geeks and political journalists is notoriously thick. For an usually public example of those interests colliding, note this AFP story from yesterday: “This morning I was with the vice president. I was asking him what costume he was planning. And he said ‘I’m already wearing it.’ Then he mumbled something [...]
1. I’m not sure the best way to respond to the debate kerfuffle is to ask for more money from supporters. 2. I’m not sure that if you’re “not running as a woman” the first thing to do when attacked is to say, “The guys are ganging up on me!” Boo-hoo. 3. She has every [...]
