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GOP Social Studies
It’s not that retail politics is for losers in the Republican presidential primary race, but the candidates stumping hardest in Iowa and New Hampshire – Michele Bachmann, Jon Huntsman, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry – are generally polling lowest. (Exception that … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (GOP PAC Attack Edition)
From Politico’s Morning Score: PRO-ROMNEY “RESTORE OUR FUTURE” RIPS PERRY, GINGRICH: “Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry: Too liberal on immigration, too much baggage on ethics,” the ad’s narrator says. http://bit.ly/ubcrgF PRO-PERRY “MAKE US GREAT AGAIN” NAILS ROMNEY, GINGRICH: The ad started running yesterday … Continue reading
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Tagged Make Us Great Again, Mitt Romney, Morning Score, Newt Gingrich, Politico, Restore Our Future, Rick Perry
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Ron Paul Goes For The Pro-Life, Er, Kill
Up to now, GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s TV spots (all $2.5 million of them) have focused on cutting the federal budget by one trillion dollars and blowing up a variety of federal agencies and calling his opponents little shih … Continue reading
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Tagged Iowa, little shih tzus, Morning Score, New Hampshire, Politico, pro-life, Ron Paul, Simon Cowell, X-Factor
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It’s Good To Live In A Two-Daily Nation (Newt Gingrich Bookselling Edition)
Newt Gingrich is the accidental candidate: He went on a book tour and a presidential campaign broke out. The truth is, Gingrich’s entire career – political and otherwise – has been a comercial enterprise, currently managed by wife #3 Callista, … Continue reading
Mitt Shoe Leather
Politico’s Ben Smith fires up The Wayback Machine to deliver this 1994 video of Mitt Romney (R-Your Doorstep) retail politicking for the Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat: Good to know he was just as awkward with people then as he … Continue reading
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Tagged 1994, Ben Smith, Mitt Romney, Politico, The Wayback Machine, Waltham
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Rick Perry & Thrust (PAC Man Edition)
While most restrictions on independent advocacy groups have been stripped away by the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, one has remained: that PACs, Super PACs, 501(c)4 organizations and etc. (primer here) cannot coordinate their advertising with a candidate’s ad … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Smith, Free & Strong America, Jon Huntsman, Make Us Great Again, Mitt Romney, Our Destiny PAC, Politico, Rick Perry
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Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Elizabeth Warren Edition)
Beseiged by a $600,000 Karl Rove rave, presumptive Massachusetts U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren (D-Occupy This) has launched a rebuttal in the form of a one-minute bio ad (via Politico): Opening: “I’m Elizabeth Warren. I’m running for the United … Continue reading
Let The $4 Billion Rumpus Begin! (Huntsman Sort-Of-Super PAC Edition)
GOP nevergonnabe Jon Huntsman, who has tracked resolutely at up to 2% in the presidential primary polls, actually has a non-canine friend: Our Destiny PAC, which has just launched this ad in New Hampshire (via NH Journal/Politico): Yikes. Maybe they … Continue reading
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Tagged Jon Huntsman, nevergonnabe, NH Journal, Our Buzzkill PAC, Our Destiny PAC, Politico
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Boston Globe Draws GOP Fire Over Brown/Warren Headlines
Barack Obama often talks about the silly season in politics. Now, welcome to the sensitive season. From Ben Smith’s media blog on Politico: Let the Globe grumbles begin A Republican official sends over two recent headlines from the Boston Globe … Continue reading
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Tagged Ben Smith, Boston Globe, Elizabeth Warren, GOP, Politico, Scott Brown
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