Campaigns & Elections articles from May 2000

Campaigns & Elections archives from May 2000

George II vs. Prince Albert.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... The state of the economy may turn out to be critical to the election's outcome, especially if voters, as they often do, treat the race as a referendum on the incumbent administration. WHEN HE WAS PRESIDENT, a frustrated Harry Truman said he...

Business Groups Gear Up to Counter Unions' Spending Clout.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... In the weeks leading up to last year's special election in California's 42nd District, the state's AFL-CIO spent more than $44,000 urging its members to support Democrat Joe Baca, a state senator running to succeed the late Democratic U.S. Rep....

Will the Real One Please Stand Up.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Richard A. Gebhardt, a sound-alike to a famous congressman, is running for office. And he's targeted House Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt. Gebhardt at first filed to run in the Democratic primary from Missouri's 2nd District. But then he...

Bill Hamilton: Guiding Star.(Brief Article)(Obituary)
May 1, 2000... Pollster Bill Hamilton, principal of the consulting firm Hamilton, Beattie & Staff and a pioneer in public opinion research, died April 1 of complications from cancer. He was 61. Democrat Hamilton, a founding member of the American...

Mike Murphy: On Falling in Love With the Meat.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... In a recent Sunday edition, The Washington Post published a front page story that resulted from two dozen interviews over six months with Republican media consultant Mike Murphy. The interviews had been conducted by reporter Howard Kurtz during...

Gore: Keys to the Kingdom?(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Vice President Al Gore appears set to defeat Republican George W. Bush in November, according to one historically based prediction system that has worked for every presidential election since 1984. "The Keys to the White House," developed in...

2000 Senatorial Races: Campaign Consultant Roundup.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... 2000 Senatorial Races: Campaign Consultant Roundup Pollster Media California Dianne Feinstein (D) Garin Hart Yang Morris Carrick &...

NEW JOBS.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Minneapolis-based media firm Northwoods Advertising has hired John Fox Blackshaw as president. Blackshaw, an attorney, comes from Tunheim Santrizios Co., where he was senior vice president and public affairs counsel. Blackshaw was previously...

NEW FIRMS.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Joel R. Maliniak, executive vice president and creative director of Goddard Claussen Porter Novelli, has resigned to start his own Los Angeles-based Democratic media firm, maliniak campaign communications. Prior to GCPN, Maliniak was an...

CAREER PATHS: HOW THEY GOT WHERE THEY ARE.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Bernard Sanders Member of Congress, At Large, Vermont, Independent A native of Brooklyn, NY., Sanders moved to Vermont in 1968, part of a wave of liberals abandoning urban life for the bucolic state. Many of the transplants joined the...

AAPC Pollie Conference, A Big Win!(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... If you were in Las Vegas on March 22-24 and couldn't find an empty seat at the black jack table, that's because more than two hundred political consultants, journalists, and guest speakers converged for the Third Annual AAPC Public Affairs...

President's Message.(Obituary)
May 1, 2000... Cynicism is a prevalent but corrosive reality in American politics. Unfortunately the voters have become cynical and often that corruption appears in conversations even within own ranks. Last Saturday in a small chapel on Amelia Island in...

Virginia Press Services.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... One call, one bill, one check for all your newspaper advertising needs. It's that simple with Virginia Press Services, a long standing AAPC member which offers this useful service to our members. Virginia Press Services is an organization that...

Outstanding Contributions to the AAPC.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... While obviously winning money in Las Vegas, Paul Pelletier of Direct Campaign Solutions named himself the "unofficial" fundraiser for the AAPC. As his first act of duty, Paul has given $500 to the AAPG and has challenged all AAPC members to...

Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Democracy Derailed: Initiative Campaigns and the Power of Money by David S. Broder, Harcourt, 260 pages. Makes the point that "direct democracy," through the initiative process, has run amok and now threatens democracy. He argues that...

Communication in the Presidential Primaries: The Candidates and the Media 1912-2000.(Review)
May 1, 2000... Communication in the Presidential Primaries: The Candidates and the Media 1912-2000, by Kathleen E. Kendall, Praeger, 257 pages. Examines the speeches, debates, ads and media coverage of presidential primary campaigns. The author argues...

American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace.(Review)
May 1, 2000... American Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace, by John C. Culver and John Hyde, 608 pages. Profiles FDR's former vice president and commerce secretary and looks at his background as an accomplished geneticist, editor, economist,...

California in the New Millenium.(Brief Article)(Review)
May 1, 2000... California in the New Millenium, by Mark Baldassare, Univ. of California and the Public Policy Institute of California, 265 pages. Shows how current trends in the nation's largest state involving political distrust, racial and ethnic change...

Tony Fazio.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... President of the San Francisco--based Democratic direct mail firm Winning Directions Career Background President of Winning Directions, a Democratic direct mail firm; former union and community organizer. Personal Married to...

Richard Viguerie.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... President, ConservativeHQ.com Career Background In 1961, became executive secretary of Young Amricans for Freedom, the conservative youth group. Since 1965, owner of direct marketing/advertising companies such as American Target...

RISING STARS OF POLITICS 2000.
May 1, 2000... During the Spring of every even year, Campaigns & Elections magazine selects the Rising Stars of politics. Rising Stars are important players on the ascendancy, people who are making their mark in campaign consulting and management, party...

Outdrawing the Sheriff.
May 1, 2000... How a challenger defeated an incumbent in a tough race - without doing a poll Stan Barry's candidacy was motivated more by his awareness of the deficiencies of the office than by long-term political ambition. This not only set him apart...

All Bets Were Off.
May 1, 2000... How good polling, an early public relations effort and message-driven ads helped re-elect a vulnerable mayor The first step in the turnaround campaign is accurately assessing the extent of the damage. This means employing survey research,...

UNDERDOGS ON THE AIR.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Democrat Jody Wagner, a Virginia Beach lawyer, is running for the congressional seat left open by retiring U.S. Rep. Owen Pickett (D) in the 2nd District. She is opposed by Republican state Sen. Edward Schrock. In California's 19th District,...

THE FOURTH TIME'S A CHARM.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... These spots were produced for the New Democratic Party in Canada in the province of Manitoba. The ads helped the NDP elect a majority government ending 11 years of Conservative Party rule. The two party leaders, Gary Doer of the NDP and Gary...

Disclosing Candidate Illness: Winning Campaigns Start with Controlling the Agenda.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Today's sophisticated technology climate coupled with its "all bets-are-off" level of media scrutiny promotes an environment in which candidates must consider each and every aspect of their personal and professional lives potential campaign...

Consultants on Candidates: Survey Taps Surprising Attitudes.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Strong partisan differences appeared as Republican consultants revealed a somewhat more positive view of their clients than did their Democrat counterparts. A KEY RELATIONSHIP IN ANY election campaign is the one between candidates and...

MEDIA.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... VOXCAP'S POLITICS SUBCHANNEL www.voxcap.com/content/c2K VOXCAP.COM'S Politics Subchannel, sponsored by Policy.com and Intellectualcapital.com, takes a look at some of the issues behind this year's political circus. Instead of focusing...

Inside This Edition [ldots].(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Michael Cornfield looks at the six best practices of candidate Web sites. Mary Clare Jalonick's "Clicks & Picks" offers commentary on grassroots political portals. In this edition, we're happy to welcome MICROSOFT/SLATE as an advertising...

CANDIDATE.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... ADAM SCHIFF FOR CONGRESS www.adamschiff2000.com IN CALIFORNIA'S 27th District, state Sen. Adam Schiff(D)is waging a competitive, costly campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Jim Rogan (R), who served as a House impeachment manager and is on the...

Six best practies for candidate sites.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Campaigners who use the Internet to converse with citizens -- as opposed to talking at them -- improve their odds of mobilizing support, where and when they want it. WHAT AN ELECTION YEAR WE face! Control of the presidency, the House of...

Making Sense of Political Portals: Deconstructing Grassroots Voter Sites.
May 1, 2000... THEY ALL HAVE NEWS. They all have opinion. They all have sophisticated cutting-edge technology and say they will give voters an organized voice and get voter opinions to elected officials in the most efficient and effective ways. ...

Free PCs! Free internet Access! Interetsed?(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... Using the cell-phone pricing model, a growing number of companies are offering to provide you with a free personal computer and unlimited Internet access as long as you subscribe to their affiliated Internet service and pay for shipping and...

POLITICAL PARTY.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE www.rnc.org WHEN LAUNCHING the Republican National Committee's new rnc.org, chairman Jim Nicholson said "all politics used to be local, but with the reach and power of the Web, all politics is now...

POLITICAL CONSULTANTS.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... SMITH & HARROFF www.smithharroff.com McAULIFFE MESSAGE MEDIA www.m3media.com WHILE MANY political consulting firms feature themselves on their home pages, more persuasive sites feature their clients. Republican media...

What Are Push Polls, Anyway?
May 1, 2000... A quick glance at press stories and official candidate and organizational statements released over the last four years clearly indicates that there is little consensus in the wider political community of what a "push poll" might actually be....

New Polling Technology: Cutting-Edge Internet Surveys.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... By utilizing the most advanced audio and video streaming technology, the client can place a numeric value on the level of agreement or disagreement that exists within the electorate. WE LAST WITNESSED A significant shift in research and...

Making the initiative process usable.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... In some states, initiative rights are so limited, so difficult to use or so subject to being undermined by branches of government that they seldom are used. WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT usable initiative processes in all 50 states. Why? I think...

Candidates with hearing and speech disabilities, Minorities and the Net.(Brief Article)
May 1, 2000... ALSO: What federal laws apply to state and local campaigns? I have a hearing and speech disability and I'm considering running for state representative. I am curious if I should try to speak in my speeches or use an American Sign Language...