Campaigns & Elections articles from December 2004

Campaigns & Elections archives from December 2004

Consultants' success rates in running elections not a perfect science.(Editor's Note)(Editorial)
December 1, 2004... CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS' signature editorial piece is its "win-loss" record for political consultants. In 2003 we made this an annual feature, and the following pages include a broad and detailed breakdown of consultants' success rates in 2004....

2004: a voter portrait.(ON THE RECORD)
December 1, 2004... Now that the voters have spoken, let's take a look at who said what. Though "exit polling" has become dirty words in the lexicon of politics, these Election Day surveys do provide a wealth of useful demographic information on trends in voter...

The follies.(INSIDE POLITICS)
December 1, 2004... Most Important Event of the 2004 Presidential Election Sept. 11, 2001. Political TV Spot That Caused the Greatest Stir The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ad that attacked U.S. Sen. John Kerry's military service record and his...

New jobs.(PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... NEW JOBS: Former Christian Coalition chief and Republican U.S. Rep. Randy Tate joins the Grassroots Enterprise, Inc. board of directors. The board is chaired by Mike McCurry, former press secretary for President Bill Clinton and advisor to the...

New pacs.(PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... NEW PACS: Qorvis Communications, a Washington, D.C. communications firm, set up a political action committee, which will contribute to candidates from both parties. It joins PR firms Burson-Marsteller, Hill & Knowlton and Fleishman-Hillard,...

Firm changes.(PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS)(California Strategies merging with Snodgrass & Micheli)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... FIRM CHANGES: Bob White, a veteran California Republican strategist and political operative, is merging his consulting firm California Strategies with lobby shop Snodgrass & Micheli. White, who worked on the campaign of Gov. Arnold...

Gone lobbying.(PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... GONE LOBBYING: Stacy Carlson becomes the Motion Picture Association of America's executive vice president of global government affairs, working under MPAA president and former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman, a Democrat and a former...

Party lines.(PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATIONS)(Brief Article)
December 1, 2004... PARTY LINES: Kentucky Democratic Party Chairman Bill Garmer announced he is resigning from his position after being "stretched beyond the limits of my emotional and physical energy," he said. The party's vice chair Kerry Morgan, 34, has taken...

Jim Carpenter.(MOVERS & SHAKERS)
December 1, 2004... Campaign manager for Sen.-elect Ken Salazar, D-Colo. Salazar beat beer magnate Pete Coors (R) by four points. Before Salazar's campaign he was director of public affairs for the National Jewish Medical and Research Center and press secretary...

Dick Wadhams.(MOVERS & SHAKERS)
December 1, 2004... Campaign manager for Sen.-elect John Thune, R-S.D. Wadhams orchestrated Thune's defeat of Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle. Previously he worked for former U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong. R-Colo., and managed campaigns for various candidates in...

The hidden dead heat: behind federal GOP sweep, democrats close gap in state legislatures.(FEATURE)
December 1, 2004... While Republicans hung onto the White House and made gains in both the Senate and the House, Democrats turned back conservatives' recent momentum in state legislative seats across the country. In 2002, Republicans gained a narrow lead for...

Shifting gears: where will America Votes go after the vote?(FEATURE)
December 1, 2004... One year ago, dozens of groups from the political left united their efforts behind a single goal: seeing George W. Bush voted out of the White House. The umbrella coalition, named America Votes, got much less attention from the media...

The winners and losers of 2004.(POLITICAL CONSULTANT WIN-LOSS RECORDS)
December 1, 2004... After each election cycle, Campaigns & Elections presents the win--loss records of political consultants across the nation. Before you begin your review of the consultants and their clients--winners and losers are all exhibited in stark...

The congregation factor.(CAMPAIGNLAND)
December 1, 2004... The 2004 election results leave each of our main parties with a new challenge. The Republicans must learn to conduct public diplomacy around the world with the same acumen and energy they bring to campaigns in the United States. The Democrats...

After election voting issues remain unsettled.(VOTING MATTERS)
December 1, 2004... Do not believe the hype. Nov. 2 did not go off without a hitch. But the most watched election in U.S. history succeeded, if only because federal, state and local election officials mended many of the problems that led to a meltdown four years...

Open the envelope: getting people to look at the direct mail they receive.(OPINION)
December 1, 2004... "To the Order of" cries one envelope. "To be opened by Addressee only" cries another. "Personal information" peeps through the window of yet another. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Direct mail--or junk mail--as most of us call it, has grown...

What John Kerry taught us about online advertising.(OPINION)
December 1, 2004... Despite John Kerry's loss in the 2004 presidential race, one of the untold stories of this past election was the way in which his campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) successfully used Internet advertising to communicate and...

Hold the phones: taking issue with a get-out-the-vote strategy.(OPINION)
December 1, 2004... It is not at all surprising that a new book called "Get Out the Vote!" would attract attention from campaign professionals this year. It may be that in the end, what made the difference was who did the better job at getting out the vote (GOTV)....

"Voting the Agenda: candidates, elections and ballot propositions".(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Voting the Agenda: Candidates, Elections and Ballot Propositions By Stephen P. Nicholson, Princeton University Press, March 2005 Pete Wilson was in trouble. With California smarting from an economic recession, the Republican governor's...

An often overshadowed political figure gets his due.(Book Review)
December 1, 2004... Senator Albert Gore, Sr.: Tennessee Maverick By Kyle Longley, Louisiana State University Press, October 2004, 350 pages, $39.95 Volumes have been written about former Vice President Al Gore, but until now there has not been a...

From classroom to the campaign trail.(BUYER'S GUIDE: POLITICAL GRADUATE SCHOOLS)
December 1, 2004... Future political operatives in university-level political management programs learn the business and theory of politics from faculty with both academic and campaign back-grounds. At George Washington University's Graduate School of...

Stolen election conspiracy theories.(CAMPAIGN DOCTOR)
December 1, 2004... Any lessons from the last election on what to avoid in the next election? Yeah. Do not fake it or you will not make it. Case in point: The Congressional wannabe in North Carolina who lost his party's primary after mailing out a voter's...

Off the record.
December 1, 2004... "Former Mayor Marion Berry elected to the [Washington D.C.] City Council. The crack is back" --Jay Leno "I tell you a lot of Democrats were really upset [about the election results.] I haven't seen Michael Moore this upset since he...