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Analysis

 Obama Losing 
 Battle of 
 Old Media, 
 New Media 

New media derails dream of new politics

Sep 9, 09 3:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama burst onto the scene as a unifying figure, someone who was supposed to end divisiveness and transform political dialogue. But these days, the rancor is as high as ever, and an administration known for its new-media savvy is taking it on the chin regularly from the blogosphere and... More »

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Barack Obama • Glenn Beck • new media • blogs • political strategy • cable news

OPINION



 How to Sell 
 Health Reform 
 Like Don Draper 

Obama needs to tap his inner Mad Man

Aug 29, 09 7:35 PM CDT
(Newser) - If Barack Obama’s going to sell the masses on health care reform, he’s going to need to hire a consultant: Don Draper. If the Sterling Cooper impresario of Mad Men were running this campaign, he wouldn’t bother talking about low premiums or subsidies. That's too mundane. “... More »

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Barack Obama • advertising • health care reform • Mad Men • political strategy

Interview

Palin Needs to Get Serious:
Gingrich

Ex-speaker offers advice on staying relevant out of office

Aug 14, 09 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - If anyone knows what it takes to succeed as an unemployed politician, it’s Newt Gingrich. So Politico asked him what Sarah Palin needs to do to stay relevant and become a presidential contender. The ex-speaker graciously laid out a six-point plan:
  • Write a book. Palin already
... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Sarah Palin • political strategy

Analysis

Obama Rarely Mentions War, Terrorism

Words 'health' and 'economy' dominate president's vocabulary

Aug 13, 09 10:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - To listen to Barack Obama speak, you might think he was a peacetime president, rather than one with more than 100,000 troops in the field, write Zachary Abrahamson and Eamon Javers for Politico. They pored over nearly every one of the half-million-plus words Obama has said publicly as president,... More »

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national security • Barack Obama • domestic policy • speech • Paul Begala • political strategy • President Obama

(Newser) - Barack Obama doesn’t want anyone to forget his predecessor. “You hand me a $1.3 trillion bill, and then you’re complaining six months later because we haven’t paid it all back,” he griped at a recent town hall. And you can expect him to keep... More »

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Barack Obama • Bush legacy • budget deficit • George W. Bush • political strategy

Health Care Debate Readies for Road Trip

Democrats will spend recess targeting insurance companies

Aug 3, 09 9:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the House already on break and the Senate readying for the August recess, the health care debate has moved to the court of public opinion, the New York Times reports. Both sides are launching campaign tours and waves of TV ads, with Democrats attacking the insurance industry and... More »

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health care • health insurance • House of Representatives • Republican Party • health care reform • political advertising • Democratic Party • David Axelrod • US Senate • Obama administration • political strategy

Analysis

 Obama TV Has 
 Become a Snore 


Jul 29, 09 4:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Say what you want about President Nixon, but at least his press conferences were entertaining. “It was the Colosseum, and everybody’s thumb was down,” recalls staffer Pat Buchanan. “It was something worth watching.” The same can’t be said of President Obama’s all-too-frequent appearances.... More »

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Barack Obama • media • Richard Nixon • press conference • Pat Buchanan • political strategy • President Obama

Analysis

 Publicity Hound 
 Cheney Makes 
 Strategic Return 

Ex-VP setting himself, party up to benefit from another 9/11

May 13, 09 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney isn’t in an undisclosed location anymore. The former VP is suddenly waging a one-man campaign defending the Bush administration’s interrogation tactics. Even he can’t believe that’s a great political move, writes Michael Duffy of Time, so what’s he up to? It’s... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • torture • harsh interrogation • Obama administration • political strategy • President Obama

Analysis

Republicans Take Page From Libertarian Book

From tea parties to budget proposals,
GOP changes tune

Apr 22, 09 12:42 PM CDT
(Newser) - It looks as though the GOP is turning libertarian, says Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com. The tea parties it championed last week take their cue from libertarian movement shindigs, and participation was high in libertarian-leaning states like New Hampshire. The GOP’s alternative budget was a like-minded proposal, "dramatically... More »

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New Hampshire • GOP • Mike Huckabee • Olympia Snowe • Ron Paul • libertarian • Glenn Beck • libertarianism • Sarah Palin • Gallup poll • Gallup • political strategy • Nate Silver • Republicans • tea parties

Dem Groups 
Loyal to Obama 
Despite Snubs 

Prez won't kiss up
to activists, but pushes
liberal agenda

Mar 21, 09 5:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is publicly ignoring and even criticizing the liberal interest groups feverishly courted by past presidents. He has chastised the teachers’ union, skipped the State of the Black Union (again), and eschewed fanfare when restoring funding to groups that promote abortion. But activists remain loyal anyway, Politico reports, because... More »

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Barack Obama • labor movement • special interests • liberal • activists • pro-choice activists • Obama administration • political strategy

GOP Cameramen Stalk Dems, Hunting 'Macaca' Moments

Needling questions aim to embarass

Mar 17, 09 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Camera-wielding Republicans are stalking Democratic lawmakers around Capitol Hill, hoping to provoke—and record—a damning, unscripted moment, McClatchy Newspapers report. The National Republican Congressional Committee has been sending video “trackers” to ambush Dems with embarrassing questions, and posting the results online. After watching George Allen destroy his campaign... More »

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Republican • camera • National Republican Congressional Committee • George Allen • political strategy

OPINION

GOP Can Capitalize on Obama's Reign

Gitmo, campus recruitment issues
could revive party

Mar 14, 09 2:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - “Never allow a crisis to go to waste,” Rahm Emanuel told a reporter after President Obama’s election. “They are opportunities to do big things.” That’s candid talk, but it might have been premature, writes William Kristol in the Weekly Standard. Emanuel assumed that... More »

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Barack Obama • Rahm Emanuel • political strategy • William Kristol • Republicans

OPINION

GOP Must Rethink 'Totally Misguided' Stance: Brooks

Obstructionist strategy seems lame

Mar 10, 09 10:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Republican response to the fiscal crisis is “totally misguided,” David Brooks writes in the New York Times. Republicans are opposing everything out of a belated sense of fiscal discipline, “at the one moment in the past 70 years when it is completely inappropriate,” he sighs.... More »

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Republican • John Boehner • David Brooks • economy • political strategy • financial crisis • Bill Maher Grid

Dem Strategists Hatched Plan to Target Limbaugh

Carville, Greenberg conspire to shine spotlight on Rush

Mar 5, 09 11:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Democrats think the hubbub surrounding Rush Limbaugh is solid political gold, and they didn’t strike it by accident. When operatives James Carville and Stanley Greenberg tossed Limbaugh’s name onto a poll last fall, they discovered that Americans can’t stand the conservative talk icon, reports Jonathan Martin in... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • Rahm Emanuel • James Carville • polling • Paul Begala • political strategy • Stanley Greenberg • Bill Maher Grid

OPINION

'Minority Leader Limbaugh' Will Sink GOP

Obama's campaign manager takes a swipe at Republicans

Mar 4, 09 8:52 AM CST
(Newser) - The 2008 election sent many signals, but chief among them was that America is sick of partisan pettiness, writes President Obama’s former campaign manager David Plouffe in the Washington Post today, He faults the GOP for somehow missing that memo, joining Obama chief of staff Rahm Emanuel in declaring... More »

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Barack Obama • Rush Limbaugh • Republican Party • David Plouffe • political strategy • Eric Cantor • Michael Steele • Bill Maher Grid

Analysis

 Why Obama's 
 Trying to Do It All 


White House aides explain president's big budget strategy

Mar 2, 09 1:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Lately, pundits have been blasting Barack Obama for trying to do too much too quickly, but he might just know what he’s doing. White House aides, allies, and advisers clue Mike Allen of Politico into the president’s thinking:
  • He’ll never have more mojo—Obama thinks
... More »

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Barack Obama • budget • Obama administration • political strategy

Republicans Hope for 1994 All Over Again

But Dems are in a
better position than
they were under Clinton

Feb 23, 09 2:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama is banking on change, but Republicans are betting things haven’t changed much at all. They’re hoping to bounce back from the political wasteland using the same playbook that swept them into power in 1994, Jeanne Cummings writes in Politico. The strategy: Unite against Democrats' economic policy,... More »

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Barack Obama • Newt Gingrich • health insurance • Bill Clinton • health care reform • Grover Norquist • economic stimulus package • political strategy • Republicans

Analysis

Obama Losing Media Battle Over Stimulus

White House struggles with new restrictions in getting out its message

Feb 5, 09 11:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama finds himself in an unfamiliar position: He’s losing a message war, Jeanne Cummings writes in Politico. Obama’s tightly controlled, tech-savvy campaign operation is still adapting to the White House’s more ponderous tool set. Republicans, meanwhile, “could practically sleep-walk through their attack plan” on the... More »

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Barack Obama • economic stimulus package • Obama administration • political strategy • President Obama

ANALYSIS

You Said You Wanted (Campaign) Revolution ...

2008 changes US elections forever

Nov 4, 08 5:11 AM CST
(Newser) - Campaign drama has overshadowed the fact that 2008 has permanently changed the way elections are fought in America, the New York Times reports. From now on, supporters will be organized in new ways and funds will be raised differently, due primarily to brave new media worlds. With the help of... More »

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Internet • YouTube • presidential campaign • campaign fundraising • online activism • campaigning • Election 2008 • political strategy

opinion


 Why GOP 
 Name-Calling 
 Is Backfiring 
 This Time 

Americans aren't buying 'real America' comments: Greenwald

Oct 23, 08 2:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - The spectacle of Republican politicians painting their opponents as anti-American is a familiar one, Glenn Greenwald writes for Salon, but three recent headline-making incidents show that something has changed. "The idea that any of them would apologize for insulting liberals or impugning their patriotism is simply unfathomable," he... More »

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Barack Obama • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • presidential election • Sarah Palin • campaign tactics • political strategy • Robin Hayes • Michele Bachmann

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