Most professional political consultants become hyper-partisan on behalf of their candidate once they lock down a job. John Edwards campaign strategist Joe Trippi, though, is different, and has remained a member of the Facebook group “Barack Obama (One Million Strong for Barack)” since the spring, according to current and historic screencaptures of Trippi’s Facebook Groups […]
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.
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THE SLOW REBELLION OF THE SOCIAL CONS.
Marc Ambinder reported this morning that Iowa Christian Alliance president Steve Scheffler is not going to follow Christian Coalition co-founder Pat Robertson‘s lead and support Rudy Giuliani. That’s not too much of a surprise, as the Iowa branch of once-vigorous Christian Coalition was so disgusted by the scandals of the national group that it broke […]
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A VERY, VERY UNPOPULAR WAR.
A CNN/Opinion Research poll finds the highest ever level of dissatisfaction with the war: Opposition to the war in Iraq has reached an all-time high, according to the CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll released Thursday morning. Support for the war in Iraq has dropped to 31 percent and the 68 percent who oppose the war is […]
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SO THAT’S HOW THEY GET THOSE RATINGS.
Robert Greenwald‘s Brave New Films today issued the latest salvo in its long war against FOX. Called “FOX Attacks Decency… with Bill O’Reilly Leading the Way,” the four-and-a-half minute clip argues that all FOX shows use gratuitous sexual images — mainly women in bikinis, from the look of it, shaking their groove thangs — and […]
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A KENTUCKY WIN, TOO.
A good night for the Democrats, all around: Dogged by political scandal in his first term, Gov. Ernie Fletcher of Kentucky, a Republican, lost his bid for re-election yesterday to Steve Beshear…. In Kentucky, Mr. Fletcher, the state’s first Republican governor in more than 30 years, failed in his efforts to raise concerns among voters […]
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VIRGINIA ELECTION RESULTS
As of close to 10 p.m., Democrats in Virginia have picked up one of the four seats they need to retake the State Senate. The impact of the immigration issue remains unclear, with incumbency and recent voting history in the districts apparently playing a larger role so far. With 73 percent of the vote counted, […]
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CONSERVATIVE WOMEN AGREE: GENDER CARD OVERPLAYED.
Though its inconceivable that a group of female G.O.P. campaign operatives would have praised their arch-nemesis Hillary Clinton, the critiques of Clinton’s recent “gender card” controversy that four women from different Republican campaigns offered at the National Review-sponsored panel discussion “Women Voters and the Right Guy” at the National Press Club this afternoon was nonetheless […]
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Virginia Is for Democrats
Yesterday’s General Assembly races in Virginia could be a bellwether for the power of the immigration issue in 2008. Here’s the rundown of the races.
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LIGHTNING ROUND.
Notes from all over on campaign ’08: Mitt Romney tells an audience in Marshalltown: “You probably don’t have a lot of immigrants legally” in Iowa, potentially offending the state’s growing Hispanic population. Ron Paul raises more than $2 million online by 2 p.m. today en route to trying to best Romney’s campaign 2008 one-day record […]
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CLINTON’S ACHILLES HEEL
Last August, after Hillary Clinton‘s inexplicable defense of lobbyists at the Yearly Kos convention, I noted the thread that was tying together her conflicts with the other candidates and asked a question: Clinton’s defense of lobbyists…[is] actually of a piece with her last three conflicts with Obama, around his plans to meet with foreign leaders, […]