Campaigns & Elections articles from April 2001

Campaigns & Elections archives from April 2001

It's that time again.(possible presidential candidates for election 2004)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Looking forward to '04, Al Gore needs to be careful in the coming months that he doesn't cede his role as a national leader by staying too far underground for too long. ALLOW ME to take this opportunity to talk about something that may...

Campaign of the Rising Sons?(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... George W. Bush is not the only son of a famous politician who set as his career ambition the recapture of his old man's former job. This year, a number of sons are looking at reclaiming positions once held by their fathers: * In New...

Murderous Politics.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Last November, the country experienced a presidential election that was won by an infinitesimal margin, strongly recalling the election of 1960, which was nearly as close. Elections are great motivators in politics, and we see these designs...

A Case of Peaking Too Soon?(unauthorized use of Mayor Howard Peak's name)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... San Antonio Mayor Howard Peak was said to be "floored" when he recently heard that Democratic gubernatorial aspirant Marty Akins had listed his name on a Web site as one of 17 prominent people supporting Akins' candidacy. Peak, who denied...

Campaign Ad Rates: Going Up, Up and Away?(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Several recent studies have added fuel to the debate over political news and advertising on TV as Congress considers campaign finance reform. One study, conducted by the Alliance for Better Campaigns, alleges that TV stations...

Where Do Voters Get Their Political Information?
April 1, 2001... Despite the circumstances surrounding our most recent election, it is a mistake to conclude that campaign 2000 was so different, so atypical, that we cannot learn more general lessons from it. Results from two separate nationwide surveys of the...

PEOPLE & ORGANIZATIONS.
April 1, 2001... FIRM CHANGES: Republican pollster Jim McLaughlin has left his Alexandria-based GOP polling firm, Fabrizio McLaughlin, to join forces again with his pollster brother, John, at the New York office of McLaughlin & Assoc. The brothers worked...

CAREER PATHS: HOW THEY GOT WHERE THEY ARE.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Susan Collins U.S. Senator, Maine Republican Elected 1996 Despite her freshman status, Collins is no newcomer to the Senate. Instead, she lived out a dream common among Capitol Hill staffers: she won her old boss's job. Collins...

Another Successful Conference.(political consultant conference)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... January 24th-27th the AAPC held its 2001 AAPC Inaugural Pollie Awards & Annual Conference in Washington, DC. The conference was attended by over 100 consultants, scholars and press, and covered an array of topics from campaign case studies to...

Tracy Allman is the New AAPC Executive Director.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... The Board of Directors of the AAPC has hired a new Executive Director, Tracy Allman. Ms. Allman began her political career with The Strategy Group, one of Trenton New Jersey's most influential lobbying firms. Tracy was responsible for all...

MOVERS & SHAKERS.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Jim Farwell Jim Farwell, president of The Farwell Group, a New Orleans-based Republican media firm. Career Background Political, legal, creative partner at the law firm of Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy (1973-1986),...

Jon Corzine and the Power of Money.(New Jersey Senate campaign)
April 1, 2001... Corzine is now a U.S. Senator, after laying out an astounding $63 million for a campaign that simply brought the street-tough political order of New Jersey to its knees. Several of the best-known and popular political veterans in the state had...

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE.(evaluation of the Democratic National Committee's web site)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... www.democrats.org THE DEMOCRATIC Party's redesigned Web site may have come a little late, but the improved Democrats.org is much easier to navigate and should provide state parties and interested voters with an more user-friendly font of...

LOS ANGELES TIMES.(mayor election coverage on the internet)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... www.latimes.com/news/politics/cityhall WITH A MAJOR MAYORAL election looming in the city this year, the Los Angeles Times has constructed a special section on their Web site to accommodate interested voters. This may not seem like a major...

TAXPLANET.COM.
April 1, 2001... www.taxplanetcom IT MAY NOT BE THE sexiest site on the Internet, but when researching tax issues, taxplanet.com may be the most helpful. It is apolitical -- geared toward tax professionals -- but it provides a good amount of information...

Voter.com goes pig.(voting service marketing)
April 1, 2001... Because of their big pile of venture capital chips, voter.com expected to out-promote, out-deal and out-last other political portals. IN NOVEMBER 1999, a Bostonian in his mid-20s named Justin Dangel launched Voter.com, an online political...

How 2001 Mayoral Candidates Learned From Last Year's Web Sites.
April 1, 2001... SOME PEOPLE claim that the Internet had little impact in the 2000 elections, looking at the demise of well-publicized political portals and the more ominous NASDAQ downturn to make generalizations about the future of politics on the Web. ...

Will Cashless Internet Transactions Change Campaigns?(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Using Internet-based payment networks, such as PayPal, you can quickly and conveniently move money by having funds transferred from your bank account, credit card account or PayPal money market account. FOR YEARS PUNDITS have predicted that...

CANDIDATEWATCH.ORG.(political web site)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... www.candidatewatch.org CANDIDATEWATCH.ORG, a local political site that monitors elections and politicians in Tallahassee, Fla., is a superb example of how local politics can find a central place on the Web. The site combines reporting...

Case Studies: Using the Internet to Build Citizen Armies.
April 1, 2001... Clearly, the Internet is beginning to have a strong impact in the world of political advocacy. The Internet offers proven opportunities today to generate results and influence voters more quickly, efficiently and cost effectively. HAVING...

Begging for Bucks.(campaign fundraising)
April 1, 2001... More and more candidates are being forced to devote significant portions of their personal schedules to asking for money, whether it's phone calls to PAC directors and individuals or attending meetings and events. The heavy demands of...

Regulations ace out the little guy.(state ballot initiative)(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... Since 1990, states have increasingly restricted the use of the initiative process. These regulations have made the process only accessible to groups and individuals with access to money. MOST OF THE INITIATIVES that will be making their way...

Sleazey attacks, Speech coaching, Legislative newsletters, Web designs.(Brief Article)
April 1, 2001... ALSO: Political contributions from partnerships My opponent's wife sued him for divorce three years ago and alleged "physical and mental abuse" in the court filing. The divorce was granted six months later without anyone testifying in...

No Place For Amateurs: How Political Consultants are Reshaping American Democracy.(Review)
April 1, 2001... No Place For Amateurs: How Political Consultants are Reshaping American Democracy, by Dennis W. Johnson, Routledge, 320 pages Tracks changes in the political consulting industry and thoroughly looks at the dynamics of the business,...

Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and Commentary.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and Commentary, edited by E.J. Dionne and William Kristol, Brookings Institution Press, 344 pages. Combines into one volume federal and state court rulings and editorial commentary on the five-week Florida...

The Permanent Campaign and Its Future.(Review)
April 1, 2001... The Permanent Campaign and Its Future, edited by Norman Ornstein and Thomas Mann, American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings, 247 pages. Discusses how governing is used to build and sustain popular support by the White House and...

Mo: The Life and Times of Morris K. Udall.(Review)
April 1, 2001... Mo: The Life and Times of Morris K. Udall, by Donald Carson and James Johnson, Univ. of Arizona Press, 331 pages. Reviews the life of one of America's s most interesting, witty and genuine politicians of modern times. [**] (**.) HIGHLY...