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posted by Matt Lewis at 5:45 AM
Monday, September 29, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Lesson Learned: Avoid Long Conversations with Reporters ...
Sadly, the moral to McCain's story is probably very good advice for would-be candidates ...
Pelley: You're not an expert on the economy. Senator Obama is not an expert on the economy. So let me ask you what traits would you bring to the Oval Office that would help navigate this country out of the current emergency?
posted by Matt Lewis at 8:42 AM
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Friday, September 19, 2008
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Rating the Tech Campaign
Marc Ambinder scores The Tech Innovations.
posted by Matt Lewis at 10:41 AM
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Monday, September 15, 2008
Make it more than just a Rally ...
Last week, I noted that at a huge Fairfax, Virginia rally, the McCain-Palin campaign asked attendees to help identify other supporters.
With this in mind, Phillip Stutts, who served as the National 72 Hour/Get-Out-The-Vote Director for the Republican National Committee and President Bush's reelection, has some thoughts on how the McCain-Palin campaign might put this information to good use ... This is a good lesson for campaigns to learn. Any time you have a large group of supporters in one place, by all means make sure to get their contact info. And if you can also get them do some volunteer work (phone calls, etc.) while they are at a rally, meeting, etc. -- that's even better!
posted by Matt Lewis at 11:08 AM
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
McCain Team Uses Rally for Voter ID Phone Bank Effort
This is a good idea. The McCain team took advantage of the huge crowd of supporters who turned out for the rally in Fairfax today, by having each attendee phone two voters. Check out my post about it here.
posted by Matt Lewis at 12:42 PM
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Political Lessons From the NYT ...
Today's NYT makes some points that I think are instructive for anyone running for office right now.
More and more voters are participating in "early voting." This means that campaings must try to identify voters with a propensity to vote early -- and begin their get-out-the-vote efforts as much as a month in advance. As the article points out: Turnout operations that once would not have kicked into high-gear until the weekend before Election Day are about to be revved up and will remain in operation to accommodate the elongated period of early voting, posing new expenses and complications. The campaigns are using computer models -- studying past voting trends along with consumer and demographic data -- to try to identify people most likely to be early voters, and press them to vote.In a separate column by NYT columnist Thomas Friedman, a profound point about political messaging is made: If you as a politician connect with voters on a gut level, they will follow you anywhere and not fret about the details. If you don't connect with them on a gut level, you can't show them enough details.
posted by Matt Lewis at 5:29 AM
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Can You Spare Some Change?
Emily Bazelon from Slate debates me on Sarah Palin's impact ...
posted by Matt Lewis at 5:27 AM
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Monday, September 08, 2008
Back From MN ...
Whew. I'm finally back from the convention -- and am almost fully recovered from the fun -- and work... Here's a pretty cool interview I did before Palin's speech ...
 ... And here's my recent episode of Blogingheads TV with Ana Marie Cox.
posted by Matt Lewis at 7:02 AM
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