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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Slate.com forecast:
Obama: 311
McCain 142
Tossup 85
I spent Monday in DC with Year Up, several partners from Venture Philanthropy Partners (including former Clinton Administration officials), Echo Ditto and also visited the local Obama HQ. Everyone I talked to was either "nervous" or "cautiously optimistic."
On Friday afternoon, I stopped by Social Sphere and ...
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Saturday, November 1st, 2008
Thanks to Jason Cianchette of Liguid Wireless and Matt Wisely of editme, you can now get Political Junkies Place on your iphone in case you will be in the field for the next few days! Here's how:
1. Go online from your phone
2. Press "+" at the bottom of the screen
3. ...
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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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