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Obama TV Has Become a Snore
 Obama TV Has 
 Become a Snore 
Analysis
Jul 29, 2009 4:58 PM CDT

Obama TV Has Become a Snore

(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....

Publicity Hound Cheney Makes Strategic Return

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

(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 possible...

Republicans Take Page From Libertarian Book
Republicans Take Page From Libertarian Book
Analysis
Apr 22, 2009 12:42 PM CDT

Republicans Take Page From Libertarian Book

From tea parties to budget proposals, GOP changes tune

(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...

Dem Groups Loyal to Obama Despite Snubs

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

(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...

GOP Cameramen Stalk Dems, Hunting 'Macaca' Moments

Needling questions aim to embarass

(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...

GOP Can Capitalize on Obama's Reign
GOP Can Capitalize on Obama's Reign
OPINION
Mar 14, 2009 2:19 PM CDT

GOP Can Capitalize on Obama's Reign

Gitmo, campus recruitment issues could revive party

(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 Bush...

GOP Must Rethink 'Totally Misguided' Stance: Brooks

Obstructionist strategy seems lame

(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....

Dem Strategists Hatched Plan to Target Limbaugh

Carville, Greenberg conspire to shine spotlight on Rush

(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...

'Minority Leader Limbaugh' Will Sink GOP
'Minority Leader Limbaugh' Will Sink GOP
OPINION
Mar 4, 2009 8:52 AM CST

'Minority Leader Limbaugh' Will Sink GOP

Obama's campaign manager takes a swipe at Republicans

(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...

Why Obama's Trying to Do It All
 Why Obama's 
 Trying to Do It All 


Analysis
Mar 2, 2009 1:32 PM CST

Why Obama's Trying to Do It All

White House aides explain president's big budget strategy

(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 political capital
...

Republicans Hope for 1994 All Over Again

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

(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,...

Obama Losing Media Battle Over Stimulus
Obama Losing Media Battle Over Stimulus
Analysis
Feb 5, 2009 11:00 AM CST

Obama Losing Media Battle Over Stimulus

White House struggles with new restrictions in getting out its message

(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...

You Said You Wanted (Campaign) Revolution ...
You Said You Wanted (Campaign) Revolution ...
ANALYSIS
Nov 4, 2008 5:11 AM CST

You Said You Wanted (Campaign) Revolution ...

2008 changes US elections forever

(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...

Why GOP Name-Calling Is Backfiring This Time

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

(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...

Obama Welcomes Mac Attacks as Signs of 'Flailing'
Obama Welcomes Mac Attacks as Signs of 'Flailing'
ANALYSIS
Oct 22, 2008 3:45 PM CDT

Obama Welcomes Mac Attacks as Signs of 'Flailing'

Drawing negative attention is gamble, but team thinks it can paint broader picture

(Newser) - You wouldn’t expect a political campaign to circulate its opponent’s attack on its candidate—yet that’s exactly what Barack Obama’s media-relations team is doing, observes Andrew Romano for Newsweek. An email linking to stories on John McCain’s latest jabs is part of the “rapid...

What Bill Told Barack: How to Win the Race
What Bill Told Barack: How to Win the Race
ANALYSIS
Sep 12, 2008 11:51 AM CDT

What Bill Told Barack: How to Win the Race

It's not hard to guess the advice Clinton may have given Obama

(Newser) - Reporters weren't allowed at Bill Clinton's meeting with Barack Obama yesterday in Harlem, but John F. Harris, in Politico, thinks he has a pretty good idea of some talking points:
  • Obama can be himself, but the election shouldn't about him—it's about the voters.
  • Less rhetoric, more catchy policy proposals.
...

Battle Is On for the Female Vote
 Battle Is On for the Female Vote
ANALYSIS
Aug 30, 2008 6:24 AM CDT

Battle Is On for the Female Vote

McCain's veep choice could draw some vital votes away from the all-male ticket

(Newser) - The GOP is betting that John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as a running mate will put 18 million dents in the Democrats' White House hopes, the Washington Post writes. The party hopes the choice will woo disaffected Hillary Clinton voters, while many Democrats dismiss it as pure political pandering....

Obama: 67 Days, 6 Vital Tasks
 Obama: 67 Days, 6 Vital Tasks
OPINION
Aug 29, 2008 3:29 AM CDT

Obama: 67 Days, 6 Vital Tasks

Dem strategists come up with Obama to-do list to win tough fight

(Newser) - Democrats leave their convention on an emotional high, having anointed a historic candidate whose journey  former president Jimmy Carter called  "almost a miracle," USA Today notes. The paper consults top Democrats for a to-do list for a victory in November.
  • Go all-out to reintroduce himself to voters and
...

GOP Playbook: Find Foe's Strength and Attack It
GOP Playbook: Find Foe's Strength and Attack It
OPINION
Aug 23, 2008 8:06 PM CDT

GOP Playbook: Find Foe's Strength and Attack It

(Newser) - Republican strategists are as adept as judo masters at turning opponents' strengths against them, Michael Kinsley writes in the Washington Post. With "genius, courage, creativity and utter ruthlessness," they managed to turn John Kerry's Vietnam service into a liability and Michael Dukakis' humble roots into elitism. Now, even...

Dems to Obama: What Kind of Change?
Dems to Obama: What
Kind of Change?
Aug 16, 2008 11:00 AM CDT

Dems to Obama: What Kind of Change?

Obama must be more specific, allies argue

(Newser) - Barack Obama has inspired hope but needs to nail down some details, Democratic leaders from battleground states tell the New York Times. Polls are stalled and voters anxious because Obama lacks clear positions, they say. “I particularly hope he strengthens his economic message," said Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland,...

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