Campaigns & Elections articles from May 2002

Campaigns & Elections archives from May 2002

Public opinion; how level a playing field? There are three factors in midterm elections that have historically played a big role: One, the economy. Two, the president's job approval. Three, the senior vote. (On The Record).
May 1, 2002... HOW DO THE VOTERS view the politics leading to the November elections? Six pollsters, three from each party, tried to answer that question at the recent Campaigns & Elections seminar held in Washington, D.C. The specter of George W. Bush...

Arizona: bigger is better? (Inside Politics).
May 1, 2002... Taking up nearly half the state's land mass, Arizona's newly-created 1st Congressional District will be among the largest in the nation. Candidates in the crowded Democratic and Republican primary fields are finding conventional campaign...

Student candidates: raising the bar. (Inside Politics).(college student body elections)
May 1, 2002... College student body elections once consisted mostly of aspirants for office posting fliers around campus and knocking on dormitory room doors. But races to become campus leaders are taking on an increasingly professional flavor, including...

Bundling for dollars. (Inside Politics).(federal campaign finance overhaul)
May 1, 2002... Political operatives with an expertise in "bundling" small "hard money" donations to political candidates could be the winners of the newly-enacted federal campaign finance overhaul law, according to election lawyers and analysts. Sponsors...

Running against the wind. (Inside Politics).(U.S. Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. to run for Maryland governor's office)
May 1, 2002... U.S. Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R-MD) is trying to accomplish what only our siting U.S. House members have been able to do during the last dozen years--win the governor's office in their state. For a variety of reasons ranging from having...

Campaign movements. (People & Organizations).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Tennessee U.S. Senate candidate Lamar Alexander (R) named Susie Alcorn as campaign manager. Alcorn is a veteran GOP political strategist and Young Republican activist. She previously worked on the first congressional campaign of U.S. Rep. Ed...

Party lines. (People & Organizations).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Colorado Republican Central Committee elected Bruce Benson as chair of the state party. He replaces Bob Beauprez, who resigned to run for an open congressional seat. Benson was chair from 1987-91. Benson said he would serve until May 2003,...

Career paths: how they got where they are.(John Rowland, governor of Connecticut)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... John Rowland Governor Connecticut, Republican John Rowland was born and raised in Waterbury, a small town in central Connecticut. Educated at Villanova University in Philadelphia where he received a Bachelor of Arts, Rowland, at...

San Diego sets new mark for participation. (American Association of Political Consultants News).(Public Affairs Pollie Awards Ceremony and Conference 2002)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The 2002 Public Affairs Pollie Awards Ceremony and Conference was a huge success. Each year the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) presents the prestigious Pollie Awards program rotating its focus annually between politics and...

The Rumsfeld Way: Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-Hardened Maverick. (Books: This Month's Picks).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The Rumsfeld Way: Leadership Wisdom of a Battle-Hardened Maverick by Jeffrey A. Krames, McGraw-Hill, 244 pages. Examines the skills, useful in both political and business careers, which Defense Secretary Rumsfeld uses and personifies...

Voting at the Political Fault Line: California's Experiment with the Blanket Primary. (Books: This Month's Picks).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Voting at the Political Fault Line: California's Experiment with the Blanket Primary edited by Bruce E. Cain and Elisabeth R. Gerber, University of California Press, 374 pages. Reviews the consequences of changing the electoral rules in the...

The 2000 Presidential Election in the South: Partisanship and Southern Party Systems in the 21st Century. (Books: This Month's Picks).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... The 2000 Presidential Election in the South: Partisanship and Southern Party Systems in the 21st Century edited by Robert P. Steed and Laurence W. Moreland, Greenwood Publishing, 246 pages. Looks at the presidential election of 2000 in a...

Buck Up, Suck Up -- and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room. (Books: This Month's Picks).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Buck Up, Suck Up -- and Come Back When You Foul Up: 12 Winning Secrets from the War Room by James Carville and Paul Begala, Simon and Schuster, 224 pages. Presents specific tactics of waging, winning and losing campaigns, and in other life...

Andrew Tobias. (Movers & Shakers).(Treasurer, Democratic National Committee)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Treasurer, Democratic National Committee Career Background Ran a student business conglomerate in college, then briefly VP of a high-flying public company. Has been writing about money and business ever since. Personal Native...

Dan Schnur. (Movers & Shakers).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Career Background Communications Director - McCain for President, 2000; Instructor - University of California at Berkeley, Institute of Government Studies; Communications Director - CA Governor Pete Wilson, Republican National Committee...

It's in the mail...(direct mail samples)(Cover Story)
May 1, 2002... EVERY YEAR, Campaigns & Elections features a sampling of direct mail that has been used in recent elections across the nation, by candidates, party committees and advocacy groups. These mail samples provide the observer with a sense of...

Accentuate the positive: how Laura Miller was elected Mayor of Dallas with a "small things" agenda of change. (Case Study).
May 1, 2002... When ron kirk announced he was stepping down as mayor to run for the state's open U.S. Senate seat, Miller jumped in the state's open U.S. Senate seat, Miller jumped in the race for the city's top job. At the time, local pols viewed her as a...

Clean kill in the old dominion: how Virginia Republicans bucked the top-of-the-ticket tide and wiped out state House Democrats. (Case Study).
May 1, 2002... All 100 seats in the House of Delegates were up, and a GOP-controlled round of redistricting the previous summer had worked perfectly: Republican candidates were crushing their opponents from Bristol to Norfolk to fairfax county. Gov. JIM...

Running against a stacked deck? Candidate assessments of campaign politics and political reform. (Political Adviser).
May 1, 2002... Incumbents typically assemble more professional campaign organizations and almost always have more political skill than do their opponents. TYPICALLY MORE THAN 90 percent of all House candidates who run for re-election win, and most win...

New jobs. (People & Organizations).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... Myra Miller was named vice president of the Winston Group, a Republican polling and survey research company. Miller joined the Winston Group in February 2001 as director of research. She previously served as political director for the Alabama...

Accolades. (People & Organizations).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... New York State Democratic Committee (NYSDC) Executive Director Chung Seto recently received the 2002 Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Democratic Women Making History. The Democratic National Committee honored Seto for her work on behalf of New York...

Texas Land Commissioner ad campaign. (Media Mix).(David Bernsen)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... About the Office: The Texas Land Commissioner oversees the General Land Office, which manages nearly 21 million acres of public lands and coastal areas. The Land Office leases oil and gas drilling rights on these public lands to help pay for...

U.S. Senate sites that work. (Clicks & Picks).(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... SENATE CANDIDACIES must by definition reach across the political spectrum to win support from diverse groups in the electorate. Many Senate campaign Web sites in 2002 are touting support from legislators from the opposition party to frame what...

Direct mail Q&A: trends & techniques. (Strategy & Tactics Direct Mail).
May 1, 2002... EACH FOUR-YEAR ELECTION cycle, over $4 billion is spent on direct mail for political candidates, issues and parties. Of that amount, many of those dollars go to the post office, printers, voter file vendors, database managers, graphic...

Specialty media; worker benefits; actors in ads; also: should you de-dupe opponents from mailing lists? (Campaign Doctor).(Brief Article)
May 1, 2002... We're in a nonpartisan election for county supervisor and are running a unity campaign. How do we do this and still appeal to the widest range of voters using what our media consultant calls specialty media? First, recognize the increasing...

Inspecting for spam: I have no sympathy for campaigners who ask for money in an unrequested e-mail. Now we're moving away from political toward commercial speech. Now the campaigner resembles a beggar more than a soapbox orator. (The Online Campaigner).
May 1, 2002... YOU'VE RECEIVED this e-mail because: (A) "You personally corresponded with Katherine at some time during the past year, most likely during the recount in Florida of the presidential balloting." [Sent by Florida Secretary of State and...