Frank Luntz

Frank Luntz: Americans Are "Mad As Hell" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics


Republican pollster and communications guru Frank Luntz joined the roundtable on ABC's This Week today to discuss the significance of the House passin...

Tom Wiens Announces Bid For U.S. Senate Seat

Posted 11.05.2009 | Denver


Throw one more name in the mix of challengers for Michael Bennet's Senate seat. Former State Senator Tom Wiens R-Castle Rock, a Douglas County ranche...

By the People, Poliwood: Bittersweet look at 2008 election

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.30.2009 | Entertainment


Marshall Fine

A year later, it's a bittersweet experience watching Amy Rice and Alicia Sams' documentary, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, which premieres on Tuesday on HBO.

HealthCare Focus: Quality versus Cost

Philip Lee Miller | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics


Philip Lee Miller

Service, expertise, and time. Those are the real challenges of the Healthcare debate.

The REAL Origin of 'Death Panels' (VIDEO)

Posted 09.28.2009 | Comedy


Ever wonder how politicians come up with phrases like "death tax," "enhanced interrogation techniques," and "energy recovery"? It's usually a pollster...

Luntz's New Gambit: Fearmongering That Obama Is "Declaring War On Medicare"

Media Matters | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics


On Fox News' Hannity, GOP consultant Frank Luntz forwarded the false conservative talking point that President Obama plans to cut Medicare benefits, c...

Fear and Waiting: What the Wise County Clinic Means This Year

Marcella Mroczkowski | Posted 08.22.2009 | Home


Marcella Mroczkowski

A free medical clinic in the poor southwestern part of Virginia treated over 1,500 patients, some driving up to five hours and sleeping in their cars to secure a place in line.

The Right's Delay And Kill Strategy

The Progress Report | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics


The Progress Report

Throughout his campaign for the White House, after his election victory, and as soon as he assumed office, Obama was clear that reforming health care would be at the top of his agenda.

GOPers Parroting Luntz's Anti-Health Care Memo

Sunlight Foundation. | Sunlight Foundation | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics


Back in May, in anticipation of the coming health care debate, Republican pollster, strategist and word smith Frank Luntz penned a memo (PDF) detailin...

The Health Reform Debate -- Myths vs. Facts

Jason Rosenbaum | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics


Jason Rosenbaum

While it once seemed like our biggest battle was over whether we are going to get a strong public health insurance option as part of reform, that question has now joined a host of others in the debate.

Bizarro World of Health Care Reform: Standing Language On Its Head

Michele Swenson | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics


Michele Swenson

Corporate socialism remains at the center of our "uniquely American" failed, fragmented, U.S. health insurance model that emulates the Wall Street norm of privatized profit and socialized risk.

Ryan Grim

Dems' Bogeyman Luntz Schooled Reid, Other Dems On Messaging

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics


The Senate Democratic leadership attacked GOP pollster Frank Luntz at its weekly press conference Thursday, mocking Republicans for taking their healt...

Sam Stein

Senator Calls Out Frank Luntz From Senate Floor

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics


It's not every day that a sitting senator takes to the floor to call out a GOP strategist. But on Wednesday, Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley did just tha...

Meet the Strangest Guy in the Republican Party

Michael Wolff | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics


Michael Wolff

The Republican Party is not going to be saved by Dick Cheney or Rush Limbaugh or Colin Powell or Sarah Palin. It is going to be saved by... Frank Luntz!

Everyone Agrees We Need to Reform Wall Street... Just Like After Enron

Arianna Huffington | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

In the same way that candidates in the 2008 race had to declare that, like Obama, they were for change, today everyone is for reform of our financial system. But the question is: are we going to get real reform or are we going to get the DC version of "reform"?

Sam Stein

Frank Luntz Won't Say Who Paid For His Health Care Memo

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics


Conservative communications guru Frank Luntz has written the playbook for GOP opposition to the Obama administration's health care proposal. His plan,...

Health Care Reform: Some Basic Principles

George Lakoff | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics


George Lakoff

Frank Luntz recommends "humanizing" Republican rhetoric to avoid humanizing health care in America. The American Plan is America at its best.

Words Designed to Kill Health Care Reform

Sen. Jeff Merkley | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics


Sen. Jeff Merkley

Frank Luntz, the man who promoted preemptive war in Iraq and distracted from the severity of global warming, is at it again -- this time with a messaging strategy designed to sink health care reform.

Green Meanies

Mother Nature Network | Posted 06.07.2009 | Green


Columnist Peter Dykstra names eight men to his environmental hall of shame....

Four Course Insanity

Anthony Citrano | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics


Anthony Citrano

At the Milken Institute Global Conference mayor Willie Brown, Congressman Harold Ford, entertainer Rush Limbaugh, and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie all graded Obama's first 100 days.

Frank Luntz Goes To Hollywood

The Wrap | Sharon Waxman | Posted 05.29.2009 | Media


One of politics' unlikeliest figures has come to Hollywood, looking to change his stripes. Frank Luntz, the arch-conservative pollster known as the...

Diplo-Blogosphere: Ranking the French, Germans and Brits

Steve Clemons | Posted 04.16.2009 | World


Steve Clemons

How are the embassies dealing with new media, and using or ignoring the tools that online video and blogging can provide?

Freddie Spent Millions to Make Republican Friends

ProPublica | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics


ProPublica

Taken together, Fannie Mae and Freddie spent $174 million on lobbying since 1998 -- they spent millions more on campaign contributions.

Sam Stein

McCain Pollster Explains Loss, Calls Frank Luntz A Moron

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics


The chief pollster for John McCain's presidential campaign offered a candid diagnosis of how his candidate was done in, on occasion reserving harsh wo...

At FOX News: If Your Guy Doesn't Win, Cook The Numbers!

Celeste Fremon | Posted 11.08.2008 | Home


Celeste Fremon

Conservative pollster Frank Luntz convened a group of undecideds for a FOX News post-debate discussion last night. But, unfortunately for Luntz, the undecideds answered the "which candidate was better" question wrong. No problem -- just ignore them! On to the next segment!