Tag: elections
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When I’m right, I’m right: Geraldine Ferraro and “The day after”
The Obama campaign’s response to Geraldine Ferraro’s attack perfectly illustrates several things I talked about last week in The day after. Campaign strategist David Axelrod emphasizes the pattern: Axelrod said Ferraro’s comments were part of a “pattern” of negative attacks aimed at Obama. He pointed to Clinton’s former New Hampshire co-chairman Bill Shaheen, who questioned…
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The day after: narrative through the lens of strategy
original essay March 5, 2008 see the comments for updates Back on February 7, Catherine Dodge and Alex Tanzi of Bloomberg News broke a story on an Obama campaign spreadsheet, “inadvertently” released by the campaign, with their projections (or maybe predictions) of delegates. Ben Smith on Politico has a nice screenshot, and even better a…
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The Super Tuesday thread!
To avoid overflowing the blog, I’ll use this thread to collect various snippets about Super Tuesday. Stories and threads elsewhere: Twitter: supertuesday, Politweets, very cool Google maps mashup, Tag clouds for liberal and conservative blogs, from Virtual Vantage point. Live coverage of Super Tuesday, the feeling on the ground and letters to friends and family…
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Why the New Hampshire recount is important
There are a couple of excellent posts up on why even though there are plausible explanations for the discrepancies in candidates’ results between hand-counted and machine-counted precincts, the recount in the New Hampshire primary is a good thing. In Off the Bus on the Huffington Post, after giving some background on the vulnerabilities of the…