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Scott Brown Piggybacks On GOP’s “Hey, Obama – Build THIS” Riff

Scott Brown (R-I Built Myself) has a new web video out (via Politico’s Morning Score) that “juxtaposes the clip of the president saying ‘somebody else made that happen’ as it relates to success in the private sector against exhortations of … Continue reading

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Bob Schieffer Supports Mitt Romney

From Politico’s Morning Score: “HOPE AND CHANGE?” [Mitt] Romney rolled out a new attack on the Sunday shows featuring clips of Bob Schieffer, David Brooks and Mark Halperin noting how negative a campaign Obama is running. The spot:   The fallout: Schieffer … Continue reading

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Let The Whatever-Billion-Dollar Rumpus Begin! (Romney Vapid Response Edition)

It’s “September in July,” reports Friday’s Politico Playbook. “SEPTEMBER IN JULY. With CMAG’s Mitchell West: … [T]he volume of presidential advertising feels more like 60 days out … than dead-of-summer July. So we picked a hot market—… Columbus, OH—and took a … Continue reading

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Mitt Romney: I’m The Luckiest Presumptive GOP Presidential Nominee On The Face Of The Earth

One more reason for Mitt Romney to fire up the jet ski and further pollute Lake Winnipesaukee in that celebratory way of his: The publication this week of two news reports that are extremely damaging both to his image and … Continue reading

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Barack Obama Is A One-Man Good Guy-Bad Guy Act

As the hardworking staff has often said (Self-Plagiarism Alert!), political advertising is the Art of the Passable: How far can you go without alienating the viewing public? Despite a new study that found attack ads by Super PACs are more effective than … Continue reading

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More E-Mail From Some Flounder

(Tip o’ the pixel to Rocky & Bullwinkle, as alway) Yesterday the hardworking staff got e-mail from the Romney campaign (Win a seat on our campaign bus!) and the Obama campaign (Give us a shoutout on the healthcare win!). Today … Continue reading

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E-Mail From Some Flounder?

(Tip o’ the pixel to Rocky & Bullwinkle) Because the hardworking staff is all about you splendid readers, we receive a lot of e-mail from the Obama and Romney campaigns. Here are today’s e-missives. From Romney digidrone Zac Moffat:   … Continue reading

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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Town (Obama Boston Edition)

From our Compare and Contrast in Clear Idiomatic English desk: For the Boston Globe, Barack Obama’s trip to Boston on Monday was just fundraising as usual, front page below the fold. For the Boston Herald, the whole thing was beyond … Continue reading

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Mitt Romney’s E-Mewl

As the hardworking staff has previously noted, the Obama campaign has a mighty email effort underway, flooding the Campaign Outsider emailbag on a daily basis. Here’s his latest, from deputy national field director Marlon Marshall: Smart, yes? Contrast that with … Continue reading

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Frank Rich Goes Nuclear

In his latest New York piece, Frank Rich recommends that the Obama campaign go full-tilt negative against Mitt Romney (R-Self Import). Nuke ’Em Why negative advertisements are powerful, essential, and sometimes (see “Daisy”) even artistic. On the issue of the … Continue reading

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