Campaigns & Elections articles from February 2004

Campaigns & Elections archives from February 2004

Campaigns in the U.S. and abroad.(Editor's Note)(Editorial)
February 1, 2004... IN EARLY 2004, Campaigns & Elections received many inquiries from politicians, journalists, government officials and students around the world about the American presidential nomination process. This, combined with the large foreign press...

28 years.(On the Record)
February 1, 2004... What do you call a born-again, pro-life, pro-gun Southern candidate who disparages lawyers and big government? Republican, you say? What about Jimmy Carter? That's exactly how Carter campaigned for the Democratic presidential...

Catching up with technology in the House.(Inside Politics)
February 1, 2004... E-mail has been standard in the House of Representatives since about 1995, but the technologically slow moving body is just now making it easier to communicate with constituents. In September the House Administration Committee voted 5-3...

Fact checking politicians.(Inside Politics)
February 1, 2004... Politicians beware! Brooks Jackson is watching you. Actually, it's worse than that. The seasoned journalist is checking on the validity of statements made by presidential wannabes during this election cycle and publishing his findings on...

Affairs of state.(Play Political Trivia)
February 1, 2004... 1. Who was the first president to marry in office? 2. Who married his teacher? 3. Who was the only bachelor president? 4. Who was the first president whose child was born in the White House? Answers 1. John Tyler married...

Firm changes.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... They're ordering a new shingle at Malchow Schlackman & Hoppey to reflect the direct mail firm's fourth name change since opening in 1997. Account executive Chris Cooper has become a partner, thus his surname will be tacked on to the end. ...

Firm changes.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn LLP, a New York law firm that counsels candidates on campaign finance law, started a government relations practice in Albany, N.Y. The government relations operation will be headed by William J. Cunningham III,...

New jobs.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Political strategist Crystal Litz joined the Baughman Co. in San Francisco. The direct mail company's president and creative director, Duane Baughman, said he's adding her to the nine person staff after having worked with her off and on for...

New jobs.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... The Republican advertising and public affairs firm of BrabenderCox hired two senior executives, Leslie Gromis Baker and Robert Aho. Baker, who currently runs her own firm in Pennsylvania, joins Brabender as a partner and senior advisor. In...

New jobs.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Andy Grossman resigned as executive director of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. David Rudd, a partner at Palmetto Group, a Democratic consulting firm and a former chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C., took over the...

Party lines.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Shane R. Ostrowski became executive director of the Republican Party of Virginia. He replaces Aaron Leibowitz, who left to join Targeted Creative Communications Inc. (TC2), a GOP political consulting firm in Alexandria, Va. specializing in...

Campaign movements.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... Former U.S. Rep. John Thune, R-S.D., has hired Dick Wadhams to manage his campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, the minority leader. Wadhams has spent the last 10 years running campaigns in Montana and Colorado. Thune also hired...

Campaign movements.(People & Organizations)(Brief Article)
February 1, 2004... U.S. Rep. George Nethercutt, R-Wash., hired political strategist Tom Mason to head his campaign to unseat U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. Mason was chief of staff for U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn. Prior to that he was the director of...

Campaign consultant/ client sign UPS.
February 1, 2004... American Viewpoint/R - polling Johnny Isakson, GA, U.S. Sen. '04 Nancy Johnson (in), CT, H05 '04 Clay Shaw (in), FL, H22 '04 Judy Biggert (in), IL, H13 '04 Ed Whitfield (in), KY, H01 '04 Richard Baker (in), LA, H06...

Political consultant win-loss records.(Illustration)
February 1, 2004... The December 2003/January 2004 edition of Campaigns & Elections featured the win-loss records of political consultants for races in 2003. Included here are client lists that were inadvertently left out. The next win-loss edition will appear in...

Political calendar.(Brief Article)(Calendar)
February 1, 2004... POLITICAL CALENDAR FEBRUARY 2004 3 Presidential caucuses in North Dakota and New Mexico; primaries in Arizona, Delaware, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina District of Columbia...

Wayne Johnson.(Movers & Shakers)
February 1, 2004... Principal at JohnsonClark Associates, a Republican political consulting firm based in Sacramento, Calif. Johnson began working in politics in 1976 for state Sen. H.L. "Bill" Richardson of California. Six years later, Johnson started his own...

Felipe Noguera.(Movers & Shakers)
February 1, 2004... President of Felipe Noguera Consultores, a consulting firm based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began polling in 1982 after the fall of the Argentine military government. By 1987 he moved into international general and strategic consulting and...

Covering the bases: how the parties make sure their most loyal supporters vote on election day.(Feature)
February 1, 2004... While presidential elections of the past have actively sought independent voters, the 2004 presidential election may be a contest of who can turn out their core supporters. Successful presidential campaigns have always relied on a...

Bush's lost states; four closely contested states could decide the 2004 presidential race.(Feature)
February 1, 2004... They're the kind of races candidates and political consultants kick themselves over: Losses by the narrowest of margins where results easily could have been different. An additional television commercial or two, a few more kissed babies on the...

Securing the nomination: how presidential primary losers can have sway at party conventions.(Feature)
February 1, 2004... The 2004 Democratic presidential nominee will be known long before the party faithful gather in Boston this summer to officially anoint him to challenge President George W. Bush. That's because after the Republican National Committee (RNC)...

Resigning to run: leaving office early while campaigning for a different post brings mixed results.(Feature)
February 1, 2004... When Kirk Humphreys resigned as mayor of Oklahoma City to concentrate on his 2004 Senate bid, he joined a long list of candidates who quit their day jobs to focus on races for higher office. Humphreys, a Republican, hopes to replace retiring...

The politics of gender: campaigns look for every advantage, even a candidate's gender.(Feature)
February 1, 2004... Rebecca Latimer Felton was the first woman U.S. Senator, serving for two days in 1922 as an appointed placeholder for Georgia. Since then 33 women have served in the Senate, including 14 now in office. Many of them, and numerous other...

Ten tips for using lawyers on your campaign.(Opinion)
February 1, 2004... Every political campaign faces numerous legal issues. From election laws to campaign finance statutes to contract negotiations to First Amendment issues, a campaign must navigate local, state and federal legal requirements. The role of the...

Seven action tips for successfully wooing Hispanic voters.(Opinion)
February 1, 2004... President Bush speaks Spanish to them. Al Gore tried to speak Spanish to them. Both sides desperately need them. They are Hispanics--the fastest growing population in the nation. Most experts predict they will play a vital role in the future of...

Online Ads: a new era in political advertising.(Opinion)
February 1, 2004... It's no surprise that a former Web site publisher would call into question the impact of television advertising. But when the man who created Ronald Reagan's "Morning in America" television ads does so, ears prick up. Hal Riney was quoted...

Defeating the Alabama tax referendum.(Opinion)
February 1, 2004... Late one evening, a conservative activist from rural Alabama took a wrong turn and found himself in a predominantly black section of Mobile. He scanned the neighborhood in the fading twilight, looking for the interstate, and was shocked by what...

New and improved.(The Online Campaigner)
February 1, 2004... Santa was exceptionally kind to online politicians last Christmas. Here's what they found beneath the tree. The BCRA Bequest: The Supreme Courtruling in McConnell upheld the ban on ads broadcast to an electorate within 30 days of a primary...

Post-2000 election changes are still incomplete.(Voting Matters)
February 1, 2004... Unless one was paying close attention to the fine print of the U.S. Senate's calendar in December, the confirmation of the four members of the new Election Assistance Commission (EAC) probably went unnoticed. The commissioners--Democrats...

From Pennsylvania steel mills to Australian Parliament.(International Politics)
February 1, 2004... When Bob Charles moved from the United States to Australia in 1969, he did so for work, not politics. More than three decades later, he is the only American who has ever served in the Australian Parliament. Since 1990, Charles has...

Swiss election produces first change in government since 1959.(International Politics)
February 1, 2004... While elections loom across the United States in 2004, the Swiss federal political system is undergoing changes of its own, having moved sharply to the right. To understand fully the changes, a bit of background on Switzerland's peculiar...

Upcoming elections around the globe.(International Politics)
February 1, 2004... This year there are more people voting in free elections than ever before. The world's largest democracy, India, plans a general election, as does Indonesia, and there will be a presidential election in Russia. American presidential...

Ron's picks.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... We Are Lincoln Men: Abraham Lincoln and His Friends By David Herbert Donald Simon & Schuster, 269 pages. Profiles Lincoln through his few personal friendships (with Joshua Speed, William Herndon, Orville Browning, William Seward, John Hay...

Ron's picks.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... The President's House: A First Daughter Shares the History and Secrets of the World's Most Famous Home, 1800 to Present By Margaret Truman Ballantine Books, 406 pages. Looks at the 200-year history of the White House from the...

Future books.
February 1, 2004... Republican strategist Craig Shirley has been contracted by WND Books to write a history of Ronald Reagan's 1976 presidential campaign in "Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign that Started It All." Shirley, president of...

Winning the war.(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... This is a book about leadership at a time when leadership mattered most. It is also about a complex personal relationship, one that was animated by respect and affection and at times circumscribed by calculation and deception. Winston...

Managing prosperity.
February 1, 2004... The fury of the Democratic presidential campaign, echoed by the intensity of those who personally dislike President Bush, has a flip side: A sober, mainstream, politically successful blueprint for national victory. This advice comes from former...

Writers on the rise: first-time authors.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Only in New Hampshire: My Journey on the Campaign Trail, by B.J. Rudell, Plaidswede Publishing, 264 pages. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Talk about grass-roots politics. B.J. Rudell provides an insider's account of Bill Bradley's campaign in...

Writers on the rise: first-time authors.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
February 1, 2004... Bob Carr: A Self-Made Man, by Andrew West with Rachel Morris; HarperCollins; 423 pages. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Journalists love tales of self-made men, in part because such rags-to-riches stories almost tell themselves. And for two...

Buyer's guide: fund raising.(Directory)
February 1, 2004... WHERE TO FIND IT, WHERE TO BUY IT FUND RAISING A.B. Data Ltd. 8050 N. Port Washington Road Milwaukee, WI 53217 Phone: 414-352-4404 Fax: 414-352-3994 Contact: Charles Pruitt Email: cpruitt@abdata.com ...

Ten secrets for a successful political fund-raiser.(Opinion)
February 1, 2004... Candidates seeking to hold fund-raisers for their campaigns often envision throngs of eager supporters coming to a feast of goat cheese souffle and artichoke sections encrusted with pecans on a bed of arugula, who then will fork over good money...

Drumming up new business from politicians; keeping candidates in touch while on vacation.(Campaign Doctor)
February 1, 2004... My consultant has talked about electronic billboards that can tailor their message to the demographics of passing motorists. How is that possible? They're called smart billboards, and they're already up in California. Here's how they work:...

"Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has written a book about his years with the Bush Administration.(Off the Record)
February 1, 2004... "Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill has written a book about his years with the Bush Administration. He said that President Bush while at cabinet meetings is disengaged, he's un-informed, distracted, he's passive. And the Democrats are...

"[President Bush] wants to legalize millions of un-documented workers.(Off the Record )
February 1, 2004... "[President Bush] wants to legalize millions of un-documented workers. Gee, how much did Wal-Mart give to his campaign?"

"Tom Ridge says we're no longer on high alert.(Off the Record)
February 1, 2004... "Tom Ridge says we're no longer on high alert. So he said we shouldn't let our guard down. So I'm doing my part and staying high."

"I don't know how many read his new book, but Pete Rose admits to gambling on baseball, did drugs and cheated on his wife.(Off the Record)
February 1, 2004... "I don't know how many read his new book, but Pete Rose admits to gambling on baseball, did drugs and cheated on his wife. The good news: He's been voted now into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."

Everybody.(Off the Record)
February 1, 2004... "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

"Sources say Michael [Jackson] is worried about how he would survive in a federal prison.(Off the Record)
February 1, 2004... "Sources say Michael [Jackson] is worried about how he would survive in a federal prison. He said if they send him to juvenile hall, he will serve for 40 years."

Q: what's the difference between the government and the Mafia?(Off the Record)
February 1, 2004... Q: What's the difference between the government and the Mafia? A: One of them is organized.

The last four former presidents are caught in a tornado and whirled off to Oz.(Off the Record)
February 1, 2004... The last four former presidents are caught in a tornado and whirled off to Oz. They finally make it to the Emerald City, where they stand before the wizard. Jimmy Carter steps forward timidly. "I've come for some courage." "No problem!"...

After getting nailed by a Daisy Cutter, Osama bin Laden makes his way to the pearly gates.(Off the Record)
February 1, 2004... After getting nailed by a Daisy Cutter, Osama bin Laden makes his way to the pearly gates. There, he is greeted by George Washington. "How dare you attack the nation I helped conceive!" yells Washington, as he slaps Osama's face. ...

A little boy wanted $100 badly and prayed for two weeks but nothing happened.(Off the Record)
February 1, 2004... A little boy wanted $100 badly and prayed for two weeks but nothing happened. Then he decided to write God a letter requesting the $100. When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, USA, they decided to send it to President...