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Welcome to � Nuts & Bolts ,� a guide to Democratic campaigns. I’ve helped write this series for years using information from campaign managers, finance directors, field directors, trainers, and ...
by Christopher Reeves
on Sun Dec 04, 2022 at 04:00 PM PST
with 19 Recommends
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I’m not a political messaging expert, I just fantasize about being one. In those fantasies, I am in an office with Democratic Party consultants and giving them this advice: 1) Never use the word “inflation” without preceding it with the word “global.”...
by EarthTone
on Tue Aug 16, 2022 at 09:37 AM PDT
with 12 Recommends
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Today there is a wonderfully funny blog about how annoying the, “Send Us Money For The Senate Campaign,” emails have become. These emails are absurd. But they beg a larger question, how is marketing for the DCCC managed? Who decides...
by lyleoross
on Thu Nov 19, 2020 at 11:16 AM PST
with 13 Recommends
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Bottom line up front: the next Democratic nominee will not be allowed to run a fake field campaign, which is what happened in 2016. This was not entirely Hillary’s fault. The fake field campaign should have actually worked and would have, if not for...
by Martin Smyth
on Thu Dec 19, 2019 at 05:04 PM PST
with 4 Recommends
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John Hickenlooper, Chuck Schumer and the DSCC’s choice for Democratic Nominee for Senate, has literally drunk fracking fluid in an attempt to suck up to Halliburton. The DSCC has put the word out that consultants work with other candidates in the...
by Albino Terrorist
on Tue Sep 10, 2019 at 12:13 PM PDT
with 35 Recommends
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The consultant’s who have the parties ear and the party in it’s vice grips keeps advising candidates and the party to spend money on campaign ads but really we need a better ground game at getting out the vote. I mean FFS millennials are...
by daeros
on Mon Apr 23, 2018 at 05:10 PM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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Tom Sullivan writing at Digby’s Place explains the power structure/culture within the Democratic Party that keeps knee-capping promising candidates and maintaining a losing status quo with All In The Family. Here’s an excerpt. Read The Whole Thing.
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by xaxnar
on Sat Jul 08, 2017 at 08:34 AM PDT
with 38 Recommends
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Did you know that if you, like me, donated $100 to Ossoff you also probably contributed $10 to pay incompetent consultants, including Canal Partners, MVAR Media, Mothership and Anzalone Liszt Grove Research, to develop the losing “I am against...
by lojo
on Sat Jun 24, 2017 at 08:03 AM PDT
with 4 Recommends
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Over 64 million registered voters did not vote in 2016. That has to change if we are ever going to get rid of Trump and take back the House and Senate so we can overturn Citizens United or Amend the Constitution, stop Republicans from crashing our...
by Martin Smyth
on Sun Mar 26, 2017 at 05:25 AM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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President Trump promised time and time again to “Drain the swamp,” but there is no real evidence to suggest that he is actively trying. Recently, he has been filling top positions at the Pentagon with defense contractors, along with their lobbyists.
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by David Pakman
on Thu Mar 23, 2017 at 05:21 PM PDT
with 11 Recommends
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History is always more complcated than a headline. Yet, we love headlines, tweets, memes: simple equations to answer complicated problems.
In 2010, after many tough and near-fatal compromises on passing Obamacare, and in the rising tide of...
by Partisan Hack
on Fri Feb 10, 2017 at 08:30 AM PST
with 6 Recommends
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My local independent bookstore (The Booksellers at Laurelwood) is going out of business and we are all very sad about it. There are efforts afoot to reopen it in a smaller and less expensive location, but nothing has been settled yet. In the mean time,...
by Shadowbelle
on Sat Feb 04, 2017 at 07:21 PM PST
with 28 Recommends
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In a two hour period on Friday, seven separate GOP PR and marketing firms issued an avalanche of polls that caused a roughly eight point swing in the probability of a Donald Trump victory on election day, per the 538 model.
These polls came form...
by Maxwell
on Fri Nov 04, 2016 at 03:36 PM PDT
with 32 Recommends
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Budget hawks squawk about bloated bureaucracies and excessively paid public employees to justify their calls for slashing government services.
In recent years, their drumbeat about government ...
by Gregory Heires
on Wed Mar 12, 2014 at 08:00 AM PDT
with 6 Recommends
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Like dog crap on a Vibram soled shoe , we can’t seem to get rid of Rick Perry. Despite all evidence that his campaign is nothing more than fodder for comedians, he carries on, ...
by cassandracarolina
on Sun Jan 15, 2012 at 06:08 PM PST
with 32 Recommends
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Creigh Deeds, Democratic nominee for Governor in the state of Virginia, continues his free fall with an embarassing and humiliating performance at a debate Thursday night in Northern Virginia.
As ...
by FlipperWaves
on Fri Sep 18, 2009 at 02:42 PM PDT
with 3 Recommends
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For years we have been paying the biggest health insurance companies more and more money to insure us against risk where there has been no risk. It's time to sever primary care from health ...
by Scrapper
on Sun Jun 21, 2009 at 09:39 PM PDT
with 2 Recommends
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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Randy Johnson explains their "Organization's" concerns about the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA):
The Card Check ...
by jamess
on Sat Jan 24, 2009 at 03:54 PM PST
with 34 Recommends
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On Sunday, I wrote a fairly long post about the new ...
by AdamGreen
on Mon Jan 12, 2009 at 10:39 PM PST
with 7 Recommends
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Hi, this is Adam Green. I recently left MoveOn to get some new ventures off the ground. You may have read about the Progressive Change Campaign Committee (PCCC)
by AdamGreen
on Sun Jan 11, 2009 at 09:00 AM PST
with 313 Recommends
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