21
Jan
This week, Politico reported on Democrats’ contingency plans in the event of a Brown victory in the Massachusetts race. According to Politico, their strategy is as follows.
1. Paint the loss of a red state Senate seat as a continuation of the problems that fueled President Obama’s candidacy to begin with. “The painstaking campaign for change over [...]
Tags: Democrat spin, Scott Brown victory
14
Jan
After the 2008 election, it wasn’t long before the tensions between some McCain campaign insiders and Sarah Palin went public. In Going Rogue, Palin discusses her experiences with one of McCain’s strategists, Steve Schmidt, and the overall flaws in the McCain camp’s strategy as she saw them. On 60 Minutes this week, Steve Schmidt took [...]
Tags: 2008 election
7
Jan
A quick search for the word ‘transparency’ on the White House website brings up 769 results. Over and over again, the White House mantra is repeated that the goal is “to increase transparency, collaboration and participation in government.” Despite this pledge, President Obama and his Democrat peers met behind closed doors this week to negotiate [...]
6
Jan
Yesterday, The Drudge Report highlighted a news report indicating that the Chicago Police Department may soon be the first in the country to eliminate police entrance examinations. Their reasoning?
Dropping the exam would bolster minority hiring and avert legal battles, according to one source, while others confirm that the exam could be scrapped to open the [...]
Tags: playing the race card
5
Jan
David Brooks’ recent article, The Tea Party Teens, drew a lot of attention today. Before I even had a chance to read the article, my Twitter feed was blowing up with negative feedback on the article. Many on Twitter summed up the gist of his article as ‘tea partiers are stupid, but they may have [...]
Tags: Tea Party Movement
5
Jan
While emailing with friends this morning, I realized that at this time last year, when 2009 was still young and at least half of the country still believed in ‘hope and change’, we were working hard campaigning in Chicago’s 5th Congressional District. Chicago was holding a special election to fill the House seat left empty by [...]
