Just another quick observation about a lesson from sports that applies to politics. No one in a hundred years would have thought the Super Bowl match up this year would pit the [my] Pittsburgh Steelers against the Arizona Cardinals. Just take a look at Sports Illustrated’s predictions for 2008: not one of the analysts picked [...]
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Obama for President Wasn’t a Campaign, It Was a Business
The political blogosphere is buzzing about Obama campaign manager David Plouffe’s interview. Soren Dayton argues the lessons of the Obama campaign were “budgeting, technology, field, and media,” while Patrick Ruffini finds that the important lesson is that “Obama ran a better kind of offline campaign.” Although it is quite true that these are some critical [...]
Successful Online Campaigning: A Focus on the 2008 Presidential Campaign
Dec 10th, 2008
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Hey guys, I know I haven’t been around for a while lately, but that’s in large part because I’ve been working on something big. Right now I’ve finished publishing the first part of a major project I’ve been working on here. The paper itself is divided into 5 parts – Intro, History, Current, Analysis, and [...]
BREAKING: PA GOP Launches Rev. Wright TV Ad
The Pennsylvania Republican Party just announced that it released an ad attacking Barack Obama’s judgment due to his associations with Rev. Wright. The ad features Rev. Wright’s now infamous line, “Not God Bless America. God Damn America!” Full content of the announcement e-mail after the jump.