Today, an experiment in mash-ups. Seeing as how Rudy has been rather free with the facts in his previous radio ads, we decided to scrutinize pretty much every statement in his new television ad. I’ll give him this much: he’s learned not to use specific statistics. A note on sources: My statistics on big cities [...]

Ben Smith at Politico is on this story like wet on water, he’s even covered the angle that the firm doing the polling, Central Marketing, is connected an Edwards pollster: I’m told, more directly, by a source familiar with the arrangements, that they’ve done calling for the Global Strategy Group, the firm of Edwards pollster [...]

Some of the most storied rivalries on Capitol Hill are between Senators of the same party who represent the same state. (New Jersey Democrats Frank Lautenberg and Bob Torricelli had a famous feud.) But few have ever gone on so long as that of former Ole Miss cheerleaders Trent Lott and Thad Cochran, who once [...]

Is Barack Obama the victim of yet another internet rumor? This time, the allegation isn’t that he’s a Muslim, but that’s he’s engaging in the icky sport of “push polling.” (Everybody now: “But what about the politics of hope?!?”) A blogger on John Edward’s wrote about receiving a call from from a pollster who asked [...]

There are a few other things worth noting about this ad buy, which a media source says is about $300,000 between now and next Tuesday, roughly three-quarters of which will be spent on local television in Manchester and one-quarter on local television in Boston. It comes only a couple of days after top Giuliani strategists [...]

Having husbanded his cash as deep into the season as possible, Rudy Giuliani is hitting the airwaves in New Hampshire today with the first television ad of his campaign. Called “Tested”, there are two rather remarkable things about the 60-second spot. First (and you might want to sit down for this), there are no images [...]