“I love Joe,” Michelle Obama said Tuesday on The Daily Show. It had come to that point in the evening—which happens on just about every late night program, just about every night when politics comes up—when the comedian …
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Another great innovation in political advertising, which we can credit to Fred Davis. The I-Am-Not-A-Blank Ad. Joe Coors, heir to the eponymous beer brand in Colorado, delivers this first ad in his congressional race:
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The problem with the Not-A strategy is that it raises all sorts of questions. …
Pack it up. Pack it in. It’s over. Political polling has reached its end point. Thanks to the good people at Public Policy Polling, who thought to ask voters in Michigan if they agreed with Mitt Romney’s claim that the state has trees that are the right height. Drum roll, please.
But that’s just the warmup. Check out the crosstabs:
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell weighed in Monday on the Obama campaign’s Bain Capital attacks and, alas, another would-be Obama surrogate bit the dust. “I think they’re very disappointing,” Rendell told Buzzfeed about the negative ads by Chicago. “I think Bain is fair game, because Romney has made it fair game. But I think how you …
It’s one of the great unexplained frustrations of the Obama presidency: Perhaps the most telegenic political leader of his generation has not been able to recruit a bench of top-flight, telegenic spinmeisters–called “surrogates” …
Have you seen the latest Crossroads GPS fact check of the Obama Campaign fact check of a Crossroads GPS ad that relies on a fact check by Politifact, but fails to point out that Politifact called the same ad “mostly false”?
No? Well, then. You have come to the right place. Though we must caution: If you continue reading this post, you …
On his way home from a two day swing through Ohio, Vice President Joe Biden stopped off at Hog Father’s Old Fashioned BBQ in Washington, Penn. After working the crowd, and trading stories with patrons and waitstaff, he made his way to the back of the restaurant, where I asked him about the report today of a planned Super-PAC ad campaign …
Steubenville, Ohio
Any last hope that this year’s election would be anything but an unprecedented wallow in muck, misstatement and disrespect was lost Wednesday, at a neighborhood spaghetti joint on the border between Ohio …
Don’t believe the hype. That was President Obama’s message to Barnard College’s 2012 graduating class. Though he used more words:
This recession has been more brutal, the job losses steeper. Politics seems nastier. Congress more gridlocked than ever. Some folks in the financial world have not exactly been model corporate citizens. No
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The week began here on Swampland with Mark Halperin’s optimistic dispatch from Chicago, “Why The Obama Campaign Is Confident About Beating Romney.” So perhaps it is appropriate that the week get bracketed by a report by William …
Barack Obama never did much to hide the fact that he was wobbly on his opposition to gay marriage. As far back as 2006, he wrote in the book that would be a blueprint for his presidential campaign that “as a christian” he would …
