Campaigns & Elections articles from February 2000

Campaigns & Elections archives from February 2000

20 races to watch in 2000.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The presidential election may be the most important this year, but there will be more than a few hot, competitive down-ballot races that could be even more interesting. Ron Faucheux is editor-in-chief of Campaigns & Elections magazine and...

Legislators Gear Up for Role in Redistricting.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Next November's elections are often regarded as the most important in half a century because control of the presidency, U.S. House and U.S. Senate arc up for grabs. But what is sometimes overlooked is that the upcoming elections could...

Non-Federal Candidates Need Air Time Too.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... During primary or general election periods, media outlets become inundated with political ads and have to turn away business from higher-paying consumer advertisers to make inventory available. If you are a non-federal candidate, or you are...

Never Too Early.(Review)
February 1, 2000... Just in time for the 2000 elections, a recently released book teaches children the fundamentals of the American political system and civic participation -- from community volunteerism to running for president. The book, Woodrow for President: A...

Voters and the Internet: Finding Credibility.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The "Democracy Online" Project, a bipartisan project conducted by The George Washington University and the firms Lake Snell Perry & Associates and the Tarrance Group, released results of a recent survey on voters and the Internet at The...

AU, Open University Campaign Course Slated.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... This spring, American University and the United States Open University are launching "The Art of Campaign Management," the first professional campaign program delivered on a "distance learning" platform. The course is specifically designed for...

PEOPLE & ORGANIZATIONS.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... CAMPAIGN MOVEMENTS: Texas Gov. George W Bush has hired Ari Fleisher, former communications director for Elizabeth Dole, as senior communications advisor and spokesman. He will start later this month.[ldots] Al Gore has named Dennis Newman, a...

Editor's Note.(Correction Notice)
February 1, 2000... As a point of correction and clarification, "The Philadelphia Story" published in the December/January issue of Campaigns & Elections, was not a part of The Campaign Assessment and Candidate Outreach Project sponsored by this magazine and the...

Bob Weygand.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Bob Weygand was running a home-based landscape architecture business when he got started in politics in 1978 as a member of the East Providence Planning Board. He moved up to the state House in 1985 and made his first big media splash in June...

Tom Campbell.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... The son of a federal judge appointed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Campbell earned economics degrees from the University of Chicago to complement his Harvard law degree. He was a Supreme Court law clerk and a White House fellow and served...

AAPC.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... New Opportunity For ARPC Members Along with the AAPC's joint relationship with the American League of Lobbyists, the AAPC and the American Political Science Association (APSA) have joined forces to establish complete membership for the...

BOOKS.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Vote.com: How big money lobbyists and the media are losing their influence, and the Internet is giving power back to the people, by Dick Morris; Renaissance Books, Los Angeles, 236 pages. Looks at how the Internet is changing American...

MOVERS & SHAKERS.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... Jamie Fox Executive Director, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Career Background To serve as director of the DSCC, took leave of absence from role as chief of staff to Sen. Robert Torricelli (DNJ). Prior to Torricelli's...

Payback is Hell.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2000... How a Wisconsin school board member and an Oklahoma state legislator bucked powerful interest groups -- and won re-election anyway THE MOST EFFECTIVE interest groups in American politics did not get that way by being gracious losers. When...

The Election that Couldn't Be Bought.(Statistical Data Included)
February 1, 2000... How Mike Capuano's modestly financed grassroots campaign beat household names and mega-millionaires in one of America's most hallowed political bastions IT WAS THE SUPER BOWL of congressional primaries. The ultimate trophy was the most...

PACs[ldots] Who Needs Them?
February 1, 2000... IN THE FALL OF I 996, TWO political action committees were formed within a month's time. Based on ideological concerns, both aimed to rally citizens to their causes. Today, the Campaign for Working Families is a million-dollar PAC that was...

"Moderates Win" [ldots] And Other Political Myths.
February 1, 2000... POLITICAL RESEARCHERS AND journalists have long assumed that, in any two-party system, candidates should make moderate appeals to the voters. Should any candidate adopt a more extreme position, the result would be an easy victory for the...

MEDIA MIX.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... HOT AND SPICY IN LOUISIANA: This election for Jefferson Parish (county) Council was one of the most expensive and dirtiest local races anywhere in 1999. The runoff pitted challenger Shane Guidry against longtime incumbent Councilman Butch Ward....

MEDIA & NEWS.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... LISTEN TO THE NEWS http://listentothenews.com WHILE PUBLIC RADIO IS often an important outlet for election news, the transcripts are not always easy to find. The Internet has given radio providers a new way to reach audiences who miss...

ADVOCACY.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... www.publicampaign.org PUBLIC CAMPAIGN PUBLIC CAMPAIGN, AN ORGANIZATION that advocates "Clean Money, Clean Elections," has a well-organized site dedicated to showing surfers the effects of big money in elections. The group's staff has...

The Final Four sites.(Web sites maintained by presidential candidates)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... HISTORIANS OF ONLINE presidential campaign politics will do well to study the Forbes campaign's innovations in interactive issue positioning and virtual precinct organizing, e-mail impresario Linda Muller's forced departure from the Buchanan...

PARTY.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... NEW DEMOCRAT NETWORK www.newdem.org IN CREATING ITS new Web site, the New Democrat Network - which supports "candidates who advocate a new centrist, progressive approach to governing" - did two things right: It made the site a portal...

U.S. Senate Campaign Sites.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... U.S. SENATE CAMPAIGN sites constitute a good cross section of the candidate Internet presence for the current election cycle. There are, of course, only 33 races, and most players in the more competitive ones are relatively well-funded. ...

E-mail: The Internet's Killer App.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... E-MAIL IS THE PRIMARY REASON people go online, followed by research, according to a survey by pollster Louis Harris & Associates. More than 1.6 billion non-commercial e-mail messages are sent each day in the United States. which is nearly three...

PUBLIC SERVICE.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... FAQVOTER www.faqvoter.com FAQVOTER IS JUST DEVELOPING, but its concept is the obvious end of the marriage of elections, the Internet and the interactivity the two encourage. It is surprising that more sites have not taken the path of...

Fundraising Events: The Dollars are in the Details.
February 1, 2000... THREE MONTHS IN THE making, you're now counting down the last hour before one of the most profitable fundraising events you've ever had. The caterer is putting its finishing touches on the food and the piano player is warming up. The check-in...

Getting the Most Out of Your Professional Fundraiser.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... IN AN EFFORT to help campaigners better understand the role of the professional fundraiser, allow me to share some of the more oxy-moronic comments, perspectives and questions fundraisers are exposed to, offer some insight as to what they...

7 Tips for Writing a Great Campaign Speech.
February 1, 2000... PIONEERING NEWS correspondent Eric Sevareid, like the other stellar electronic correspondents of his day at CBS, considered himself a writer first -- he called his several published collections of broadcast analyses "oral essays." Another...

Beat the rush: Electronic filing is coming in 2001.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... IT IS A FAIRLY TYPICAL MORNING at the campaign office of the "Christopher Shays for Congress" committee: Staffers are busy returning phone calls and sending out correspondence to supporters. But one thing is different. The campaign office just...

Going negative does not always mean getting ahead in elections.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... SPIN DOCTORS AND mudslinging are common features of contemporary elections. But are the two linked? Did the growth in the professionalism of campaign politics result in election campaigns becoming more negative? Are negative campaigns more...

Telemarketers, E-polling, Books.(Brief Article)
February 1, 2000... ALSO: How Friends in the Banking Business Can Help Your Campaign We have close connections to a local bank that's a big player in our elections. Since fundraising is always an issue, how can I use these connections to help our campaign,...