Campaigns & Elections articles from August 2002

Campaigns & Elections archives from August 2002

Dollars and doldrums. (On the Record).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Two things are striking about the midterm elections to this point: One is the massive amount of money being raised and spent in large states and targeted races. Two is how state fiscal troubles are influencing gubernatorial races across the...

Club for growth. (News Feed).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Stephen Moore devotes his professional life to getting Republican congressional candidates elected, and his organization, the Club For Growth, plans to spend millions of dollars in 2002 to that end. Yet the Club is not always a big favorite...

California: same day registration? (News Feed).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura's 1998 victory is attributed in part to a state law allowing citizens to register to vote on election day. Ventura is not seeking re-election, but voters in California, often seen as an incubator for national...

Door-to-door: underutilized tool. (News Feed).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The age-old campaign tactic of door-to-door canvassing is being underutilized by campaign consultants and managers, a new study by Yale University political scientists says. According to the study, by political science professors Donald P....

Minnesota spats: could it happen in a state near you? (News Feed).
August 1, 2002... Minnesota isn't planning on seceding from the Union any time soon, but it appears to be doing the next worst thing -- it has been meddling and tinkering with the two-party system. It started in the early part of the last century when this...

Party lines. (People & Organizations).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... The Virginia Republican Party chose Aaron Leibowitz to be its new executive director. He replaces Edmund A. Matricardi III, who resigned in April in the wake of an eavesdropping scandal. Leibowitz worked as a political operative in Texas for...

Campaign movements. (People & Organizations).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... California gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon (R) continued to beef up his campaign team, adding several GOP consultants to his roster as senior advisors: Ed Rollins, Lyn Nofziger and Ron Rogers. Rollins managed President Reagan's re-election...

New jobs. (People & Organizations).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Minyon Moore left her job as chief operating officer of the DNC to join the public affairs firm Dewey Square Group. Moore previously served as White House political director in the Clinton administration and held several top-level positions at...

Connie Morella. (Career Paths: How They Got Where They Are).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Member of Congress Maryland 8, Republican Morella, who was first elected in 1986, has had to run few competitive races - though her heavily Democratic district, based in Montgomery County just north of Washington, D.C., has often been...

Jim Matheson. (Career Paths: How They Got Where They Are).(Democratic Member of Congress, Utah)(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Member of Congress Utah 2, Democrat Matheson is the son of former Democratic Gov. Scott Matheson (1977-85), whose name helped him win instant recognition in his bid to replace Republican U.S. Rep. Merrill Cook in 2000. Matheson is a...

Multiparty Politics in America. (Books: This Month's Picks).
August 1, 2002... Multiparty Politics in America, edited by Paul S. Herrnson and John C. Green, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 198 pages. Compiles a series of articles on multiparty politics in the U. S. Looks at the strengths and weaknesses of two-party...

The 2000 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective. (Books: This Month's Picks).
August 1, 2002... The 2000 Presidential Campaign: A Communication Perspective, edited by Robert F. Denton, Jr., 278 pages. Explores the last presidential election from a variety of viewpoints, including the early campaign; insurgent candidacies; conventions...

James Madison and the Future of Limited Government. (Books: This Month's Picks).
August 1, 2002... James Madison and the Future of Limited Government, edited by John Samples, Cato Institute, 246 pages. Examines the history of the US. Constitution and the role played in the document's formulation by Madison. Presents his views on...

Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Electoral Reform and Democratization in Costa Rica. (Books: This Month's Picks).
August 1, 2002... Stuffing the Ballot Box: Fraud, Electoral Reform and Democratization in Costa Rica, by Fabrice E. Lehoucq and Ivan Molina, Cambridge University, 278 pages. Studies Costa Rica's fraud-ridden political system and its transformation into one...

Jim Arnold. (Movers & Shakers).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Jim Arnold, president, Jim Arnold & Assoc., an Austin-based general consulting firm. Career Background Research director, manager for statewide and congressional campaigns, Texas (1985-89); National Republican Congressional Committee...

Heidi von Szeliski. (Movers & Shakers).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Heidi von Szeliski, senior partner in the San Diego office of Decision Research, a Washington, D. C-based Democratic polling firm. Background Undergraduate and graduate training at the University of California, San Diego. Personal...

Winning with young voters: how to reach - and motivate - 30 million missing voters under 30. (Cover Feature).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Young adults comprise a uge block of unclaimed voters. They can provide the winning edge in your campaign this November, and help build a base to sustain you in future elections. It is essential to dispel the myths of conventional wisdom...

Convention cities ready bids for '04; Democrats: looking for the right spot. (Special Feature).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Like the Democrats, Republican officials will have to balance competing interests, including availability of hotel space, whether the city has enough facilities to host the convention and the security that goes with it, and whether the...

Dueling in Dakota: how longshot Mike Rounds won the GOP gubernatorial nod. (Case Study).
August 1, 2002... Rounds conducted something other than a text-book campaign leading up to the Republican primary and was mightily helped by the relentless negativity of his two major opponents. In the end, his come-from-behind win was an upset of mythical...

Writing better scripts for television ads. (Political Adviser).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Remember the mantra from the dinosaur age of computer programming - "Garbage In, Garbage, Out"? The same holds true for political television scripts. Bad scripts don't magically transform into masterpieces on the screen. A "C Minus" script...

Five notable Democratic Congressional campaign sites. (Clicks & Picks).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... House Democrats will try again in 2002 to capture control of the chamber from Republicans, and the Internet is an important tool in many campaigns. Candidates with strong Web sites provide good models for using the Internet effectively in any...

The Internet and candidate debates. (The Online Campaigner).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... CAMPAIGNS WITH DEBATES on their fall calendars should negotiate the formats and prepare for the events with the Internet in mind. The Net can help before and after, if not so much during, a candidate debate. Before the Debate: The Internet...

Getting the word out on the Internet. (The Online Adviser).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... Sometimes people writing in online discussion groups forgo traditional print conventions, such as capitalization and paragraphing. This may look hip, but ultimately it just makes reading what you're writing more tedious. Sure, as a...

Consultant Q&A: trends in political telephone services. (Strategy & Tactics Political Telephone Services).
August 1, 2002... TO GET A HANDLE ON RECENT trends in political telephone services, Campaigns & Elections submitted questions to consultants Wayne Blanchard, Jeff Butzke, Linda Cherry and John Jameson. Here are their responses: C&E: What are the latest...

Buyer's guide: telephone services.
August 1, 2002... FUTURE CALL Colorado Springs, Co Phone: 888-FUTURE1, Fax: 719-457-1130 URL: www.futurecall.com E-mail: joe.schulman@futurecall.com Party Affilitation: Nonpartisan Years in Business: 14 Services Offered: ...

Mall intercepts, bad polls, pols as campaign managers; also: is it better to write a check or file a petition to get on the ballot? (Campaign Doctor).(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... What are mall intercepts? Interviews with voters - recruited at malls - to test TV ads for persuasion and effectiveness. According to GOP polling firm Public Opinion Strategies (www.pos.org): "To help quantify what we learn in focus groups...

Off the record.(Brief Article)
August 1, 2002... President Bush got a call the other day from Saddam Hussein. He told the President, "The other night I had a dream that I went to Washington, DC and, lo and behold, wrapped around the White House was a big banner that read, "Long Live Saddam!"...