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We are just a couple of months into the 2008 election cycle, but already House targets for next year are being thrown about wildly, with the usual supportive demographic and electoral data.
Unfortunately, all numbers aren’t equally useful in…
Nobody should be surprised by the overreaction to the Hillary Clinton/Apple pseudo TV spot posted on YouTube. Reporters (and political consultants) simply love anything new and creative, even if its political impact is non-existent.
The ad, fashioned after an Apple ad from 1984, got tons of airtime…
Ladies and gentlemen, tonight the role of Hamlet, previously played by former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo (D), will be played by Chuck Hagel.
After a few days of frenzied speculation about whether Hagel would seek the Republican nomination for president, the Nebraska Senator announced on Monday…
The following are excerpts from an op-ed piece in the Sunday, March 18, 2007 in the Los Angeles Times.
At this point in past presidential cycles, much of the campaign activity would be going on behind the scenes. Operatives would be focused on raising money, putting together state organizations in…
Each presidential election cycle is unique, but you can count on certain developments every time. There are candidate boomlets, questions about the frontrunners, talk of deadlocked conventions and multiple scenarios of various credibility. Scenarios are a lot like opinions or blogs — pretty much…
I probably sound like a broken record, but I’ve had it with people who still don’t know the difference between political polls and advocacy telephone calls.
Polls are methodologically rigorous public opinion surveys of generally 500 to 1,000 people intended to learn about and measure voters’…
The new March 9, 2007 print edition of the Rothenberg Political Report is on its way to subscribers. Here’s a sample of the stories in this issue. To subscribe, just go to the website and click on the Google Checkout button to pay by credit card or you can send in a check.
Florida 16: Instant…
If you listen to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) talk for a few minutes, you are likely to think that she doesn’t have the toughness and quickness to hold off her likely Democratic challenger, Rep. Tom Allen.
Well, stop thinking that way.
I don’t know whether Collins will be able to swim against…
Embattled Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher (R) is set to launch a statewide media blitz next week in his effort to win renomination and ultimately reelection.
The governor’s first term has been marred by investigations into his administration’s hiring practices, resulting in Fletcher drawing two…
If businessmen acted the way some candidates, campaign managers and press secretaries do, many of them would wind up in jail. After all, lying to, or at least intentionally misleading, investors and regulators can get you in big trouble.
But in politics, many of us have become so accustomed to…
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