No strategic counterpunch and a self-emasculating VP makes Obama's job twice as hard. If his team understood messaging, he'd be doing better against the make-believe maverick.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 09.09.2008 | Media
Why is it that a Republican campaign filled with blunders, chaos, gimmicks, an out-of-touch candidate, scandals, and lies succeeds? The answer just might be found in a political ad -- from 1984.
Bob Burnett | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics
Three months before the 2008 Presidential election, we know the parameters of the contest. McCain's fear campaign will be relentlessly negative. Bot...
A. Siegel | Posted 04.28.2008 | Politics
It's time to be a bit sexist for a moment. Let's think about what message framing of the Lieberman-Warner environmental act might look like in a domestic setting.
Glenn Hurowitz | Posted 04.13.2008 | Politics
During the ongoing Compassion Forum, Hillary Clinton talked about "our great drug companies" in the context of a discussion about providing affordable...
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
We need to get over the collective eight-year-old-boy admiration of fighter pilots and commandos and get to work on brainwashing the rest of the world into not fighting us in the first place.
Jeffrey Feldman | Posted 03.13.2008 | Politics
To read televangelist Rod Parsley's violent language as he encourages his readers to join the so-called culture 'war' is to come face-to-face with the violent rhetoric McCain will tolerate to win votes.
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics
Either Karl Rove has joined the Clinton campaign as their advisor, or somebody over there has learned a lot from his standard campaign playbook. Beca...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.16.2008 | Politics
King's legacy is a third-rail issue -- touch it and you die in Democratic politics. Clinton was seen as somehow "slighting" King, and so she had to pay the price.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics
The Law of the Sea detractors are global anti-socials whose preferred method of interaction for nearly every international problem is physical intimidation.
Dave Johnson | Posted 10.11.2007 | Politics
Government is not some "them" out there, like the conservatives want you to think - government is you, and me, and all of us in this together, for each other.
Lorelei Kelly | Posted 10.02.2007 | Politics
The military was supposed to be the sacred cow, even for conservatives. But now, it too has been slaughtered in the free market.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2007 | Politics
Why are Democrats so lame on basic PR? Someone asked me that question on my blog the other day, and I didn't really have an answer. Why are Democrats...
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Joseph Romm | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics