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 [...]
Could this be the first sign that Michael Mukasey, in his first week on the job as Attorney General, really does intend to bring a new openness to the Justice Department?: The Justice Department said yesterday that it has reopened an internal investigation of the role played by its lawyers in the administration’s warrantless surveillance [...]
Only possible word for this. Judith Regan, Bernie Kerik, Rupert Murdoch…and Rudy Giuliani. This would be, ahem, HUGE in the New York Post if the Post weren’t owned by RM. Can’t wait to see how the Daily News plays it. Oh, wait, here it is.
Are on election day, or so I’ve heard. And the national polls are useless, at this point. And Iowa polls are notoriously unreliable, but this poll of the early states, Iowa and New Hampshire, but especially Iowa, from the relatively reputable CBS-NYTimes numbers crunchers is fascinating on two counts. The Democratic race is a three-way [...]
In this SwampCast, some thoughts on the field below the top of the ticket on the Republican side. Say hello to New Hampshire winner Ron Paul, everyone…
WARNING: This is inside baseball/horseracey. I think the planted questions story may be an example of the fragility of Clinton’s “aggressive” media strategy. While I — and maybe Iowans — do care about planted questions, the practice of suggesting a question or two is not necessarily a crime. If Clinton does sink to Bush-style “screening,” [...]
Michael Crowley has a very interesting piece in The New Republic about how the Hillary Clinton campaign manages the media. The essence is here: Reporters who have covered the hyper-vigilant campaign say that no detail or editorial spin is too minor to draw a rebuke. Even seasoned political journalists describe reporting on Hillary as a [...]
He may still win Iowa, but as Garance Franke-Ruta points out, this sort of demagogic nonsense is really dreadful.
In it, he declares, as he does so often at campaign appearances: “When I’m president I’m going to say to members of Congress and members of my administration, including my cabinet: I’m glad that you have health care coverage and your family has health care coverage. But if you don’t pass universal health care by [...]
