Campaigns & Elections articles from December 2001

Campaigns & Elections archives from December 2001

Yes, Virginia. (On the Record).(2001 elections)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... The '01 elections were about unique strategic factors: election day turnout operations; wealthy candidates bankrolling their own campaigns; internal party sniping and fatigue; peculiar local circumstances that reframed the issue agenda. It...

Showdown in the Garden State. (News Feed).(New Jersey gubernatorial race)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Democrat James E. McGreevey, the 44-year-old mayor of Woodbridge township, swept past Republican challenger Bret Schundler on election day to claim the New Jersey governor's seat by a margin of 56 percent to 42 percent. McGreevey's victory was...

New Team, New Players. (News Feed).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan's gubernatorial campaign team in California has changed as it moved from an exploratory effort to a full-fledged candidacy -- Republican strategists Dan Schnur and Arnold Steinberg, Deputy Campaign...

Election Reform: Slow in Coming? (News Feed).(Statistical Data Included)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Although flaws in the electoral system were spotlighted by the 2000 presidential election, many states have not moved to make necessary corrections, a Common Cause report says. "Even with all the commission reports, academic studies, and...

September Mourn. (News Feed).(World Trade Center attack in political ad, aired by mistake)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... An Illinois television ad featuring the World Trade Center erupting into a fireball followed by a shot of the Sears Tower was mistakenly aired on a Springfield station in late October, creating some controversy in the state's gubernatorial...

Turnout Ups, Downs. (News Feed).(voter turnout in 2000 election)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... According to a study released last month by the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate, voter turnout was up for the 2000 election, with a turnout of 51.2 percent of the eligible electorate compared to 49 percent in 1996. The...

Political Calendar. (News Feed).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... DECEMBER 11 Special congressional primary election, Oklahoma 1st District 17 2002 candidate filing deadline, Illinois 18 Special congressional general election, South Carolina 2nd District JANUARY 2 Candidate filing...

People & Organizations.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... CAMPAIGN HIRES: South Carolina Gov. Jim Hodges (D), who is running for reelection next year, has hired Jay Reiff to be communications director in his gubernatorial office. Reiff was campaign manager for Democratic North Carolina Gov. Mike...

Career Paths: How they got where they are.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... John Thune, Member of Congress At Large, South Dakota Republican Congress is Thune's first elective office, but he arrived on Capitol Hill in 1997 with experience in several jobs that gave him a solid grounding in federal, state and local...

2002 Pollie Awards and Conference. (AAPC News).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... This year's AAPC Pollie Awards and Conference will be held in the beautiful San Diego, California, March 21-23, 2002. The event will be an exciting opportunity for political and public affairs professionals to meet and be recognized for their...

Jews in American Politics. (Books).
December 1, 2001... Jews in American Politics, edited by L. Sandy Maisel and Ira N Forman, Rowman Littlefield Publishers, 506 pages. Provides a complete picture of Jewish political participation in the U.S. Chapters written by journalists, academics and...

The Roosevelt Cousins: Growing Up Together. (Books).
December 1, 2001... The Roosevelt Cousins: Growing Up Together, 1882-1924,by Linda Donn, Alfred A. Knopf, 237 pages. Traces the Roosevelt family in a heavily illustrated book that takes readers inside the brown-stones of New York City and the country houses...

Political Consultants in U.S. Congressional Elections. (Books).
December 1, 2001... Political Consultants in U.S. Congressional Elections, by Stephen Medvic, Ohio State University Press, 224 pages. Explores the role of campaign professionals in modern congressional campaigns, focusing on their influence in a variety of...

Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History. (Books).
December 1, 2001... Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History, by Kati Morton, 414 pages. Looks at these important relationships dating back to Woodrow and Edith Wilson to George and Laura Bush... ** HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *...

Movers & Shakers.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... David Garth President, New York-based media consulting firm The Garth Group Career Background Started in television as producer of high school sports shows. Started in politics as New York State co-chair (with Eleanor Roosevelt)...

2002 Outlook: Republican State Parties. (Special Report).
December 1, 2001... Republicans take their party organizations seriously -- more so than their adversaries, the Democrats, who often owe primary allegiance to interest groups and individual candidates. Republicans tend to be more dedicated party builders. And, of...

Who's Who: Republican State Party Chairmen & Executive Directors.(Directory)
December 1, 2001... Peter Abbarno, Executive Director, Washington. Former exec. dir., Vermont GOP, where the party gained a state House majority. Media and policy coordinator for Republicans, New York Assembly. Joe Acinapura, State Chairman, Vermont. Served in...

Mark Warner's Five-Year Plan. (Case Study).(Virginia governor)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2001... How a wealthy Democrat capitalized on internal Republican squabbling to capture the governorship of conservative-leaning Virginia Nov. 6 BROUGHT about a mixed blessing for both parties in Virginia. Democrat Mark Warner's victory for...

Cable TV: How good for campaigns?: To get enough reach and frequency, a campaign would have to buy spots on dozens of cable TV programs. And, of course, these programs are often ruled off-limits. (The Political Professional).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... Like steve raddock and Billy Sternberg, who wrote about the advantages of cable TV ads in political campaigns in the October issue of Campaigns Elections, I, too, used to be a believer. Cable promised better targeting than broadcast with less...

Site of the Month.(Web site of California governor Gray Davis)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... CANDIDATE GRAY DAVIS FOR GOVERNOR 2002, CALIFORNIA www.gray-davis.com Some might find the huge picture of The West Wing's Martin Sheen on Gov. Gray Davis' Web site obsequious and an underestimation of Californians' grasp on...

Inching forward. (The Online Campaigner).(use of Internet in Virginia gubernatorial campaign)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... THE EARLEY-WARNER contest for governor of Virginia, described elsewhere in this issue, did not turn on the candidates' use of the Internet. It's almost impossible to imagine how the online campaigning could have made the difference, given that...

Republican State Party Sites: New Internet Basics. (Clicks & Picks).
December 1, 2001... WHEN CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS last reviewed Republican state party sites in May 1999, most were in their infancy. In the first edition of our Bandwagon section, we wrote: "most Republican state parties seem to be using the Internet because they...

Opposition Research: How to Get It Right.
December 1, 2001... Setting the Record Straiqht MANY CANDIDATES -- when they think of opposition researchers -- think of dark figures in trenchcoats digging through their opponents' garbage in the middle of the night or following their opponents' families...

Balancing Discretion and Glasnost. (Strategy & Tactics).(opposition research)
December 1, 2001... Political consultants continue to tell their clients that they compound sins by trying to cover them up. But the political consulting industry consistently engages in a pattern of coverups that aren't aimed at concealing illegal, immoral or...

Advanced Polling Techniques: Road to the Right Message. (Strategy & Tactics).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... IT IS FAR FROM a political revelation that messaging and voter turnout win elections. However, traditional polling sometimes ignores the real science of message testing and strategy development. While many campaigns stick to the polling basics,...

Full disclosure, attacking women, blending consultants. (Campaign Doctor).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2001... ALSO: Clearing the air with CATI vs. CATA. My candidate for the state legislature, who is running as a fiscal conservative, had a failed business in another city about eight years ago. Should we raise the issue on our own and explain it...

Off the Record.
December 1, 2001... "This guy Osama bin Laden, he has $300 million, 26 kids, five different wives. And what does he hate? The excessive American lifestyle." --David Letterman "Apparently, bin Laden says he trusts CNN because Larry King is the only man...