Campaigns & Elections articles from August 2001

Campaigns & Elections archives from August 2001

Watch those state legislative campaigns.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... WHEN DISCUSSING THE balance of power between the two major political parties, analysts usually limit their scope to presidential and congressional elections. But there is another example out there that should be considered, for it holds a guide...

Initiatives Across the Country.
August 1, 2001... From education and gun control to same-sex marriage and medical marijuana, 204 ballot measures were put to voters last year in 42 states. This year, however, the most intense debates surround not the issues that will appear on ballots in...

Maxing Out: Leg Up for Challengers.(campaign fund distribution)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Congressional challengers and open-seat candidates from both parties benefit more from maximum $1,000 contributions than incumbents, according to a recent study by the Campaign Finance Institute. Overall, challengers and open-seat US. House...

Court Upholds Mail Ballots.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Oregon's unique vote-by-mail system, which went into full effect in 1998, does not violate the constitution or federal election laws. The mail voting system eliminates the need for polling places....

Off on the Right (Republican) Foot.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Rising high school junior Fritz Brogan isn't old enough yet to vote, bat the ambitious 16-year-old is already being dubbed one of the "up-and-coming" stars of the political scene. On April 15, 2001, Brogan and co-founder Glen Weyl launched...

PEOPLE & ORGANIZATIONS.(political consultant appointments and resignations)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... CAMPAIGN MOVEMENTS: ExNashville Mayor Phil Bredesen appointed Dave Cooley, his former aide and strategist, to manage his 2002 gubernatorial bid. Cooley, a lawyer, also ran Bredesen's unsuccessful 1994 bid for governor.... New Hampshire Sen. Bob...

CAREER PATHS: HOW THEY GOT WHERE THEY ARE.(Gary Condit and Robert Torricelli)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The archetypal young man in a hurry, Torricelli was a political activist long before he was old enough to vote, working in the Democratic organization of his native Bergen County as a teenager. Watching how he works now, it is perhaps not...

Ukrainian Government Officials Visit the AAPC.(American Association of Political Consultants)(government and press relations conference)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... On June 11th, the American Association of Political Consultants hosted nine Ukrainian government officials at our Washington, D.C. office. AAPC Board member John Franzen conducted a seminar for our guests on media campaigns and political...

A message from the founder of the AAPC.(American Association of Political Consultants)(association management techniques)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Since the creation of IAPC and AAPC within three months of each other 30 years ago, two other associations of political professionals have come into existence: ALACOP, the Latin American Association of Political Consultants, and EAPC, the...

Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith, by Robert Slayton, 294 pages. Profiles the fascinating life of Al Smith, who was the Democratic presidential nominee in 1928. Includes colorful anecdotes about Smith's days as a state...

John Adam.(Review)
August 1, 2001... John Adam, by David McCullough, Simon & Schuster, 736 pages. Looks at the life and times of the nation's first vice president and second president. Looks at the key role Adams played in the American Revolution and the founding of the...

The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture.(Review)
August 1, 2001... The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society and Politics, by Bruce J. Schulman, Free Press, 334 pages. Explores the decade of the 1970s in the United States, from bell bottoms to disco, from Nixon's resignation to Roe v....

Learning by Voting: Sequential Choices in Presidential Primaries and Other Elections.(Review)
August 1, 2001... Learning by Voting: Sequential Choices in Presidential Primaries and Other Elections, by Rebecca Morton and Kenneth Williams, University of Michigan Press, 173 pages. Presents a comparison of elections with simultaneous and sequential...

Mitch Bainwol.
August 1, 2001... Executive Director National Republican Senatorial Committee Career Background Spent 13 years working for U.S. Rep. and then Sen. Connie Mack. Served under Jim Nicholson as chief of staff of the Republican National Committee and later...

Bret Schundler's Big Win.
August 1, 2001... How the Jersey City mayor toppled the New Jersey GOP political establishment to win a stunning gubernatorial primary victory NEW JERSEY POLITICIANS in Philadelphia during the Republican National Convention last year got a good idea of what...

How South Carolina Passed a Lottery.
August 1, 2001... The recent Alabama experience worried pro-lottery forces in South Carolina, an even more conservative bastion with strong fundamentalist opposition THE CONCERN WAS palpable when Democratic Gov. Jim Hodges called his pollster, Washington's...

Writing Campaign Speeches that Connect.
August 1, 2001... An Israeli speechwriter shares the secrets of his success ONE NEED NOT BE AFRAID of campaign speeches. This is my conclusion after participating in several campaigns, the most recent of which led to Ariel Sharon's election as Israel's prime...

CANDIDATE.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... STUART WALDMAN FOR CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY www.stuartwaldman.com THOUGH VOTERS haven't yet made it to the party, one California state Assembly aide is all dressed up. Stuart Waldman, a Democrat running for California state assembly...

PUBLIC SERVICE.(campaign finance information)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... CAMPAIGN FINANCE INSTITUTE www.cfinst.org WITH CAMPAIGN finance on the front lines of congressional debate, the Campaign Finance Institute attempts to explain the issue. The institute takes campaign finance legislation and deciphers it...

REFERENCE.(political campaing Web sites)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... THE ALEXA WAYBACK MACHINE-ELECTION 2000 Archive0.alexa.com(collections/e2k.html LIKE WHAT YOU saw on Pat Buchanan's presidential site last year? Trying to remember that hilarious Al Gore joke on Allgore.com? Forget what Grassroots.com...

ELECTION SITE.(www.calvoter.org)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... CALIFORNIA VOTER FOUNDATION: ARCHIVE OF CAMPAIGN PROMISES www.calvoter.org/2000/promises CALVOTER.ORG, created by the California Voter Foundation, has always been one of the most innovative and forward-thinking election Web sites on...

Your campaign and their privacy.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Privacy is a minefield for campaigners. The issue is going to bring voter files into their awareness, and they will be suspicious of what is being done with them. TELEVISION PUT VIOLENCE On the national agenda by projecting images of...

National Party Sites: How You Can Use Them.(Web sites)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... At first glance, the major parties' Web sites may appear to be geared to Beltway insiders. But upon further inspection, they provide to partisans across the nation a useful supply of information, news and political organizing advice. ...

Beware, the Power Outage.(personal computers)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Most people don't think twice about the electric current flowing into a PC until something disturbs that flow. In the event that lightning threatens, these disturbances can cause the bits to bite the dust, big-time. ELECTRICITY IS YOUR...

Secrets of Successful Online Fundraising: Tips for Increasing Donations.
August 1, 2001... One aspect of online campaigning that has yet to hit full stride is online fundraising. Online donations can provide significant advantages over traditional offline donations. For example, online donations eliminate the paperwork and make the...

Internet-Driven Direct Mail -- Faster, Cheaper, Easier.
August 1, 2001... Internet-driven direct mail allows customers to create direct mail -- with the use of pre-defined templates -- on their own PCs for delivery in one to two business days. THE TARGETABILITY OF direct mail is its greatest asset. With the help...

The Colorado Supreme Court decision: What difference does it make?(campaign finance)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... Justice Souter's opinion for the majority seems geared more to the mext case than to this one. DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENT in Federal Election Commission v. Colorado Republicans on February 28, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor asked...

Do it the Warren Way.(increasing candidate name recognition)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... The Warren Way is the strategy by which a candidate uses a statewide ballot initiative to increase his or her name recognition as well as to show the voters a clear example of what he or she believes in. WHAT IS THE KEY to winning an...

Billboards vs. bus signs, party bank accounts, constituent services.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2001... ALSO: Are gifts to voters worth the money? I'm thinking about running for Congress in 2002 from a district in the Northeast with a fairly heavy percentage of union and working-class voters. I have a two-year-old Ford but my wife has a...

OFF THE RECORD.
August 1, 2001... "If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time -- a tremendous whack." Winston Churchill "Economists predict...