Over at Politico.com, Roger Simon reveals Hillary Clinton's latest tactic to win support in Iowa: A campaign with limited resources would forget about the expansion voters and just go after the provens and potentials. But the Clinton campaign has been sending out a special glossy mailing to expansion voters. On the bottom is a scratch card that says: “Itching for change? Show your support for Hillary. Scratch to win …
Politics Gets Personal For Huckabee The Huckster
He hasn't raised the most money, but Mike Huckabee can afford a real good camera crew. Can you imagine the on-set high-fives when some campaign advisor looked through the lens and said "Wow, the way you're framed here in the shot, there's a freakin' cross plain as day in the background right next to your head!" See the Huckabee Christmas ad here. He's so smooth, it's scary. Sounds like a lot of people are buying …
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Rich Silverstein Is Tired Of All The Bushit
Legendary San Francisco ad man, Rich Silverstein, has teamed with Huffington Post to offer poster-sized reminders of the times we're living through. The 24" x 36" lithograph posters come in three versions: Villains of the GOP, Worst Events of the Bush Years, and Slogans of the Bush Years. They go for $20 each -- or one can buy all three for $50 (plus shipping and handling). Limited Edition Silkscreens of each, …
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News Copy Is News Copy, Not Ad Copy
Dennis Ryerson of the Indy Star doesn't like to see newspaper copy used in political ads. He believes there's an implied endoresement there that doesn't exist, so it's misleading. Newspapers such as The Star have worked hard to remain an independent voice, not tied to any special interest. It's hard to convince some people of that when our words are picked up and used in partisan campaigns. It is an unsavory …
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Hillary Isn’t Running for the Nomination, She’s Running for President
Her lines: “You know, if you’re a family that is struggling, and you don’t have health care, well you are invisible to this president. If you’re a single mom trying to find affordable child care so you can go to work, well, you’re invisible too. And I never thought I would see that our soldiers who serve in Iraq and Afghanistan would be treated as though they were invisible as well. Americans from all walks of life …
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Will Run For Mayor For Food
image courtesy of Flickr member, Laughing Squid According to Scott Beale, San Francisco artist "Chicken John" Rinaldi, wants to run for mayor, but needs to raise $5000 by 5pm this Friday, August 10th in order to be on the ballot. To meet this monetary demand from the city, Chicken scraped together enough money to run the ad above on page 19 of the August 8th edition of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. In the ad, …
Why Doesn’t Dennis’ Brand of Common Sense Sell?
John Edwards’ Hair Piece (Piece Of Video, That Is)
I didn't watch the entire Democratic Presidential debate last night, but it was formatted so that the questions were asked by ordinary people via their own YouTube videos. Each campaign also was given time to play their own video. Here's the one from John Edwards: I'm not a huge fan of John Edwards, but I love this video. Freakin' love it. …
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