Campaigns & Elections articles from June 2000

Campaigns & Elections archives from June 2000

Who wants to be Vice President?(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Vice presidential choices -- particularly bad ones -- can impact the outcome of presidential elections, especially in close races. FORMER VICE PRESIDENT Thomas R. Marshall used to tell a story about two brothers. One of them went off to...

Leader of Enemy Camp Brought GOP to Philly.
June 1, 2000... Ed Rendell was more than an interested spectator at the 1996 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. Then in his second term as the Democratic mayor of Philadelphia -- which had rebounded from fiscal catastrophe to stability during his...

Gov. Thompson is Platform Chair.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Gov. Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin will chair the committee drafting the 2000 Republican Platform at the Philadelphia national convention. "Gov. Thompson is the senior Republican governor and an articulate advocate of smaller, smarter...

CORRECTIONS.(Correction Notice)
June 1, 2000... In the May issue, the names Matt Keelen and Jeffrey Plaut were incorrectly spelled Keelan and Plautt in the Rising Stars feature. On page 12 of the April issue, Lawren Massey. who was hired as a senior associate at Franzen & Company, was...

CAREER PATHS: HOW THEY GOT WHERE THEY ARE.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... J.C. Watts Jr. Member of Congress, 4th District, Oklahoma, Republican Julius Caesar Watts was raised in a poor, black neighborhood in the rural community of Eufaula, Okla. His ticket out was his prowess on the football field. He won...

Democrats Do the Dumbest Things, by Bill Crawford, Renaissance Books, pages 173.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Catalogues a variety of dumb things done by a host of Democrats, ranging from Marion Berry to Ted Kennedy, Gary Hart to Al Gore, Hillary Clinton to Huey Long, FDR to Ed Koch, Pat Schroeder to George Wallace. Great reading for any Republican....

Outside Money: Soft Money and Issue Advocacy in the 1998 Congressional Elections, edited by David Magleby, Rowman & Littlefield, 243 pages.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Looks at the increasingly relevant topic of independent expenditures and other indirect campaigning done by interest groups and political party committees. [**] (**.) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Checkbook Democracy: How Money Corrupts Political Campaigns, by Darrell M. West, 219 pages.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Slams the campaign finance system, arguing that candidates court donors more than they do voters. Uses case studies of the Willie Horton ad, the Christian Action Network, Asian contributions to Democrats and the Clinton/Gore '96 campaign to...

Elections Polls, the News Media and Democracy, edited by Paul Lavrakas and Michael Traugott, Chatham House, 352 pages.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Discusses the impact of polls on politics, using the 1996 elections as the point of reference. Explores media interpretation and deliberative, push polling issues. [**] (**.) HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

Karen Hughes.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Communications Director, Bush for President Career Background News reporter for KXAS-TV, the NBC affiliate in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas press coordinator for the 1984 Reagan-Bush campaign; media/public relations consultant for numerous...

Andrew Card.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Andrew Card, Chairman of the "Bush for President" operation, 2000 Republican Convention Career Background Engineer, elected local official in Holbrook, Mass.; four-term Massachusetts state legislator; candidate for Massachusetts...

How to Beat Al Gore.
June 1, 2000... GOP strategists give their party's presidential candidate some free advice Key Wedge Issues THERE ARE A NUMBER of issues Bush needs to focus on to beat Al Gore: BY DICK DRESNER & BOB WICKERS 1. Get the issues of Social...

Republicans Return to Philadelphia.
June 1, 2000... THE REPUBLICAN PARTY will meet in Philadelphia July 31-Aug. 3 to nominate Texas Gov. George W. Bush as its presidential nominee. It will be the GOP's 37th presidential nominating convention and its sixth such gathering in the City of Brotherly...

The Changing Face of Delegate Selection.
June 1, 2000... DESPITE A HEAVILY FRONT-LOADED presidential nominating system this election year, in which more than half of the country voted before the end of March, few of the presidential primaries selected actual delegates to be sent to the Republican...

Republican Sleepers.
June 1, 2000... 10 races where underdog Republicans -- with smart campaigns and a little luck- may have an outside shot at upsetting Democratic frontrunners THE TEXTBOOK VERSION of U.S. politics is that there are 435 U.S. House seats, 33 U.S. Senate seats...

ADVOCACY.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... CONSERVATIVEHQ.COM www.conservativehq.com RICHARD VIGUERIE, conservative direct mail guru, has taken his talent for foresight and organization to the Internet with ConservativeHQ.com. His vision is to create a site that will "address...

PHILADELPHIA VISITOR SITES.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... www.pamedia2000.com www.philly.com www.philadelphia2000.org www.pagop.org www.citypaper.net www.dailypennsylvanian.com/phillyguide www.phillyweekly.com WHETHER YOU'RE a politician or a reporter,...

PARTISAN COMMENTARY.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... MULLINGS www.mullings.com "MULLINGS" STARTED out as a fax from GOPAC head Rich Galen and an occasional commentary by a Republican pundit that gave readers one more opinion on the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But, post-scandal season,...

New media, new coverage rules.
June 1, 2000... The Internet enables candidates and campaigns to bypass the news media more easily than ever. But that's no cause for poisoning relations with the press. REMEMBER WHEN THE only reporters you had to worry about wore identification tags,...

Greatest Hits: GOP Campaign Web Sites.
June 1, 2000... WHAT A DIFFERENCE two years can make. In the 1998 election cycle, most candidate Web sites were primitive. This year, however, campaigns are not only following standards but helping to create a new set of rules for this new way of advertising...

PARTY.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY www.cagop.org When visitors first arrive at the California Republican Party site, they're greeted by a cast of characters right out of Beverly Hills, 90210: a solemn, thoughtful brunette stares at her...

Building Your Web Site ...for FREE!
June 1, 2000... The no-cost Internet bandwagon continues to accelerate, with Web sites, Web storage space, Web-based software programs and Internet service providers offering services completely free of charge. That's good news for money-pressed political...

The Secret Ingredient for Successful PAC Fundraising: Discipline.(political action committee)
June 1, 2000... Discipline is the most important asset a fundraiser needs to be successful. The reason is simple. You can have the greatest product in the world, but if you don't have the persistence to market that product, you will fail. Or at least not do...

Buying TV Time: America's New Contract with Cable.
June 1, 2000... RELOCATED TO CHICAGO by ABC in 1986, this New Yorker -- grandson of a Tammany Hall campaign manager -- broke down Chicago politics upon spotting a popular Windy City T-shirt: "My two favorite teams are the White Sox and whoever's playing the...

Using Cable TV in Campaign 2000: Big Media Opportunity for Small and Large Campaigns.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... Cable in Politics: An Overview The Cabletelevision Advertising Bureau recently held a special forum for political advertising decisionmakers, "Cable Campaign Strategies 2000," to update them on cable TV's growing capabilities in the new...

Reaching Swing Voters, Supporters Cost-Effectively.
June 1, 2000... Harold Barker works in construction in the New South. Harold's political leanings are very conservative; he contributes to religious organizations and enjoys watching "Walker, Texas Ranger" in syndication on cable television. His wife, Barbara,...

A Political Media Buying Strategy for Using Cable.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... With more than 80 percent of American homes now receiving ad-supported cable programming, and with viewing shares nearing a standard 40 percent during prime time, cable must be included in any comprehensive paid-media strategy. Need more...

Electronic voting systems, Firing staff, Using the 527 loophole.(Brief Article)
June 1, 2000... ALSO: Refunding designated contributions if you lose a primary I found one of your old columns by doing some Web surfing on electronic voting machines. I am trying to find a list of companies involved with developing these machines. Do you...