Monday, October 27th, 2008 – 04:38:42 PM
Campaigns are won with trench warfare (commonly known as the ground game) and air support (ads and media). What’s unique about political marketing is that unlike, say, selling blenders, you can get a horde of like-minded volunteers who will give up their precious free time to talk to hostile voters for you–for free.
Unfortunately, the hopeless [...]
Thursday, October 9th, 2008 – 05:14:51 PM
The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed today at 8,579.19, its lowest level since May 7, 2003. That means when the Dow Jones was last at this level, I was in sixth grade. That’s me, bottom row, second from left.
Do you feel screwed now?
2003 was when I worked my first political campaign. I find it seriously [...]
Friday, September 19th, 2008 – 08:17:11 PM
Joined by a pair of students from West Springfield ditching class for the day (I fully support skipping AP Government to see Live Government), I trekked up to Sterling’s Claude Moore Park this morning to hear Joe Biden at a “Women for Obama Rally.” Granted, I’m not a woman, but since it was an sufficient [...]
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 – 11:23:22 PM
I haven’t turned off C-SPAN yet, and the normally news-free convention roll call came to Tennessee.
The Tennessee delegation casts its 43 votes for “George S. McCain.”
Oops.
Monday, September 1st, 2008 – 09:34:59 PM
The confetti has settled. The protesters are gone. Denver has emptied out and all is back to normal–but my view of politics has changed.
After four days on the floor at the Democratic National Convention, I was simultaneously awestruck and exhausted. As a delegation page, I helped pass out signs and bring them up at the [...]
Sunday, August 24th, 2008 – 09:00:05 AM
I’ve been selected as a page for the Virginia delegation, so I will be covering the convention in Denver. Watch here for updates, and watch my flickr photostream for the latest.
Thursday, August 7th, 2008 – 09:43:24 PM
The peculiar presidential campaign of 2008 took another turn for the surreal as John McCain’s campaign essentially conceded to Barack Obama that he was, indeed, loved by millions of people–and tried to convince us that was a bad thing, airing television ads that spent the first ten or so seconds bathing Obama in the glow [...]
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 – 03:33:42 PM
I will be at the Netroots Nation conference this weekend in Austin, Texas, and will be part of a panel entitled “Politically Active Youth on Political Participation and Civic Education: What They Have to Teach Us” on Friday the 18th from 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM. I will appear alongside Thomas Senecal, founder of Teens [...]
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 – 01:40:18 PM
From People For the American Way*:
*Full disclosure: I’m a summer intern there, and this was one of my assignments. Someone inside PFAW is probably clipping this post right now for monitoring.
Monday, May 19th, 2008 – 12:46:07 AM
“The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs.” -Senator Ted Kennedy
That was Ted Kennedy speaking on a landmark piece of immigration legislation, the Immigration and Nationality [...]
