In a speech at the National Press Club on Friday, AFL-CIO head Richard Trumka drew predictable contrasts between the mega-union’s members and its political enemies
(e.g. firefighters running into burning buildings vs. the Scott Walkers of the world), but he also took aim at Washington’s behavior on the whole—suggesting that Democrats …
Elections
Campaigning in the Twitter Era
Sure, Newt Gingrich has been a center of media attention before, but a lot has changed since he was in office in the 1990s. And part of Gingrich’s problem is that he’s unused to modern media.
His troubles started in a …
Campaign Spouses: The M-Paw Factor
The spouses of presidential candidates usually play a small, but non-trivial role, in the success or failure of campaigns. (Jeri Thompson is a personal favorite.) The horror expressed by Haley Barbour’s wife about the …