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Court signals it may loosen campaign spending

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it may let businesses and unions spend freely to help their favored candidates in time for nex...

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Wall Street Journal: Mark Penn's Column Not Conflict Of Interest

New York Times | RICHARD PÉREZ | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

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The Wall Street Journal said on Thursday that it would keep the public relations executive Mark J. Penn as a columnist, and that the paper's ethical s...

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Obama 2012

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 08.16.2009 | Home

Read More: 14th Amendment, Spike Lee, Bryant Park, Mark Penn, 2012 Election, Terrence Yang, Racism, B.E.T., Barack Hussein Obama, Zero Mostel, Tavis Smiley, 13th Amendment, Colin Powell, Do the Right Thing, Reconstruction, Heidi Klum, Melting Pot, Cipriani's, Robert Johnson, Hip-Hop, Seal, Deb Slott, W.E.B. Dubois, Segregation, To Kill a Mocking Bird, Criminal Industrial Complex, Sonia Sotomayor, Sidney Poiter, Virginia Davies, Shelby Steele, The Dance Flick, Pink Elephant, Booker T. Washington, Home News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

I went to New York to meet Obama the candidate, and in a Soho apartment he told a small group of us that his middle name was Hussein. I thought he was telling a joke.

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Mark Penn: Political Swine Flu

Bart Motes | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

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Bart Motes

Were it not for John Edwards, Penn opines, I imagine gesturing animatedly with his trotters, Hillary might have enjoyed an edge. Allow me to translate: Penn says Edwards stole the old racist vote from Hillary!

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Hillary Learns a Lesson

Taylor Marsh | Posted 06.02.2009 | Politics

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Taylor Marsh

I still get emails, and a smattering of sore winner comments, that Secretary Clinton will be the undoing of President Obama. Hoping ain't gettin'. Hasn't happened yet.

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James Carville Book Dishes And Disses On Hillary Campaign

The Plum Line | Posted 05.30.2009 | Politics

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In a forthcoming book, top Hillary supporter James Carville reveals that Bill Clinton was privately shocked and infuriated by the Hillary campaign's ...

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Mark Penn "Cooks the Books" on Bloggers

Lane Hudson | Posted 05.22.2009 | Media

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Lane Hudson

Mark Penn has commentary up at the Wall Street Journal. Good heavens. For 1250 words, it sure is an intellectually lazy piece of crap.

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In a New Media World, the Best PR Is to Be Your Own Media

Jay Marose | Posted 04.09.2009 | Media

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Jay Marose

For PR people, media conglomeration has only made the ability to garner press coverage of your product, be it a entertainment, consumer items or causes, based on its own merits more difficult.

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Fellow Dem Pollster Slams Mark Penn: Surveys "Biased," "Rigged"

Pollster.com | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

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Of the many stories in Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg's new book, Dispatches from the War Room, the most newsworthy may be his slashing condemnati...

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One Last Look Back: The 10 Most Ridiculous, Shameful, or Generally Unfortunate People and Events of 2008

Chez Pazienza | Posted 03.06.2009 | Entertainment

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Chez Pazienza

Well, it could've been worse. As 2008 mercifully ends, we're left to ponder a year in which the real and the surreal were pretty much indistinguishable, where insanity actually became tedium.

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Jason Linkins

Mark Penn Given Column By Wall Street Journal, For Some Reason

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.12.2009 | Media

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"Microtrend"-enthusiast and Devourer Of Hilary Clinton's Hopes Mark Penn had a column in the Wall Street Journal yesterday, for some reason, about how...

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Mark Penn Denies Memo Called Obama "Unelectable"

The Huffington Post | Posted 01.08.2009 | Politics

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The UK Independent interviewed Hillary Clinton pollster Mark Penn, who not only refused to acknowledge he made mistakes but denied that basic facts ab...

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Ten Democrats Who Should Go Away

Ben Cohen | Posted 01.04.2009 | Politics

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Ben Cohen

The Democrats have in some ways, been worse than the Republicans. As a party, they've stood idly by as the Bush Administration has literally ransacked the country.

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Message to President-Elect Obama: After Heller, "Build a Bridge to Moderates" with Common Sense On Guns

Paul Helmke | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

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Paul Helmke

Because of the Supreme Court decision, the gun violence prevention debate has shifted from the extremes to the middle.

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Ten Chumps Who Helped Elect Barack Obama

Erik Ose | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

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Erik Ose

With the post-election analysis season almost over, it's worth taking one final look at some of the characters who ensured President-elect Obama would make it to the White House.

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New Evidence Mark Penn To Blame For Major Clinton Mistake

CBS News | Posted 12.12.2008 | Politics

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Hillary Clinton's first major mistake of the campaign, her staff has long admitted, was whacking Barack Obama after his supporter David Geffen trashed...

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Sam Stein

Mark Penn Praises Obama For Handling 3 A.M. Economic Crisis

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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One-time Hillary Clinton chief strategist Mark Penn acknowledged -- sort of -- that Barack Obama had passed the infamous 3 A.M. test that Penn and his...

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Nervous Dems Give Obama Stupid and Redundant Advice

Ari Melber | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

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Ari Melber

No matter how the Democrats are doing, it seems, their top strategists and party elders spend September publicly "worrying" that they look weak -- which is weak.

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Friday Talking Points [47] -- Our First Anniversary

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Surprise! It's our first anniversary column! But before we get to that, I have to pass on this information, in the hopes nobody will get stung by a v...

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Bayh Could Bring Mark Penn Back Into Dem Race

The Atlantic | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics

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ne of the fun things about writing a controversial piece like the one we posted yesterday on the collapse of the Clinton campaign is the ensuing flurr...

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It's the Women, Stupid

Lisa Witter | Posted 09.13.2008 | Politics

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Lisa Witter

It's the women, stupid: Did mismanagement lose Senator Clinton's bid for the White House? Or was it Mark Penn's bad strategy to woo women? It's clear...

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Mark Penn Gives Advice: Negative Ads Work

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.12.2008 | Politics

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Yesterday's Atlantic piece on the inner workings of the Hillary Clinton campaign didn't do much for Mark Penn's reputation. On the contrary, it showed...

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Sam Stein

The (Innocent) Obama Tapes Mark Penn Wanted Released

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics

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On Monday evening, the Atlantic Magazine released its long awaited opus on the downfall of the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. The piece, titl...

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Atlantic Gets Hold Of Internal Clinton Camp Memos

Washington Post | Posted 09.08.2008 | Politics

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Just when you thought everyone had moved on... former advisers to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are in a tizzy over an upcoming piece in the Atlantic Mo...

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McCain's Problem with White Voters

Paul Jenkins | Posted 08.12.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

It is McCain who needs to score exceptionally well among white voters, better in fact than any other Republican presidential candidate in the past 20 years, including George H. W. Bush.

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