Archive for October, 2008
Friday, October 31st, 2008
Bill Hinchey just called about a story he heard on the news that something like 40,000 American's living in Israel voted yesteday and exit polls showed them 75% voting for McCain. Here's a graph from a thorough story from the LA Times Blog Babylon & Beyond.
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Thanks to David Feinberg!
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
As predicted, Rev Wright has appeared in a last minute Republican ad. This one paid for by the "National Republican Trust PAC." I am particularly senstive to the impact of last minute attack ads, as they may have been partly responsible for my fathers loss in 2000. We were up ...
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Thursday, October 30th, 2008
I have been heads down this morning and not had a chance to see what smarter political analysts are saying about last night's 30 minute Obama Infomercial, but here's my gut:
After sleeping on it, I thought the Obamamercial was beautiful and touching, but will not move the undecided’s one point. ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
This McCain ad ran immediately after the Obamamerical.
I will write more about this after the election if Obama wins, but I have felt all along that the best way to attack Obama would be to say something incredibly positive about all that he has accomplished, but then state ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
ANR just sent me this new Obama add called "His Choice" and it is driving me crazy. Why? It fails the "Beethoven Test."
Let me explain. When I reviewed our TV advertising for AIR MILES, the agency knew it had to pass what I called the "Ray Charles" and "Beethoven" tests. ...
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
In a previous post, I wrote about the effectiveness of the 2004 Bush/Rove strategy to keep the "air war" (e.g convention prime time speakers, TV ads) positive while using microtargeted direct mail to deliver the hugely negative "gays, guns and abortion" attacks.
Here's one of the mailers they are using this ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Just back form DC and heard David Gergen on CNN:
"I thought last night we had reached the limits of absurdity by talking yet one more time about the topic of Sarah Palin's wardrobe, but today they went even higher with Joe the Plumber with John McCain offering views about Israel."
Here's ...
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
ANR writes:
Here's a "what if" article about the Republican ticket. Good analysis of what they were trying to do by selecting Palin, what the results were, and whether the ticket would have been better off with Tom Ridge.
http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/10/28/what-if-ridge-were-on-the-ticket.aspx
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Chris Richardson writes:
I cannot get over how different the two campaigns are in the final week of the race.
Look at Obama: he is re-articulating the main points and themes of his entire campaign. The "Are you better off/will you be better off?" ad. He appears composed, confident but not cocky.
And ...
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