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Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.

Recent Articles

OBAMA AS JORDAN?

Garance Franke-RutaNov 12, 2007

A reader writes:

I got an email from the Obama campaign today with an excerpt from his recent speech in Iowa that is gettting such good reviews. From the attached video I see that Obama's intro music is the same as that of the Chicago Bulls (Alan Parsons Project "Sirius"), made famous during Michael Jordan's championship run in the 90s. Even the "Obama" in lights is an echo of the old Bulls introduction. I half expected Obama to come out in warm ups.

He's quite right. Check out the Obama introduction in Des Moines, then look at this video of the Bulls getting introduced.

LIGHTNING ROUND.

Garance Franke-RutaNov 12, 2007
  • The WSJ has a fascinating piece on how executive women identify with Hillary Clinton's struggles to make it in a man's political world, then unpacks the reason that she's not getting more support from women like her: They're probably, like the majority of higher-earning people in America, Republicans. "Executive and professional women with incomes over $75,000 -- who might be perceived as having most in common with her -- support Mrs. Clinton in much lower numbers than do lower-income women, and they are slightly more likely to vote for Mr. Giuliani than for her: 46% to 45%."

THE (HILLARY) FACT HUB=DEAN DEFENSE FORCES 3.0?

Garance Franke-RutaNov 09, 2007

I have thought to myself on occasion over the course of this long campaign that someone could really write a full-time blog that consisted of nothing but corrections of misrepresentations of Hillary Clinton's positions and history, as some tried to do for Howard Dean back in the Dean days. Her campaign seems to have finally come to the same realization, and also now understands that in the contemporary media environment it needs a way to communicate with the many people who are going to write about Clinton without ever contacting the campaign or getting on its press lists. And so it has launched a new fact-checking blog, The Fact Hub.

THE SLOW REBELLION OF THE SOCIAL CONSERVATIVES, PART II

Garance Franke-RutaNov 09, 2007

The state director of the Ohio branch of the national Christian Coalition of America has released a statement distancing himself from the Rev. Pat Robertson's endorsement of Rudy Giuliani, as well. As in Iowa, the Ohio Christian Coalition broke with the national organization in 2006, changing its name and re-organizing as the non-profit Ohio Christian Alliance.

PREPOSTEROUS, INDEED.

Garance Franke-RutaNov 09, 2007

Lest anyone reading my earlier item think I believe Jeff Dinelli's "preposterous conspiracy theory" that Joe Trippi is some kind of Barack Obama plant inside the John Edwards campaign working to take Hillary Clinton out, I'd like to make clear that I believe nothing of the sort.

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