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Politics
C Is For Cookie (Or Maybe C-Minus)
July 6, 2004 05:26 PMWhile pundits digest the news of a Kerry-Edwards ticket (and regurgitate both campaigns' talking points on the matter), Campaign Desk has been chewing over different combos, which we found distinctly indigestible: chocolate chunks and sour cherries; pumpkin puree and raisins.... Continue reading
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Politics
Reporters Touch Down in Small Towns
July 2, 2004 02:09 PMOn Monday, Campaign Desk pointed to a Washington Post piece nominating the "hook and bullet" crowd (hunting and fishing enthusiasts, many of who live in battleground states) as the hot new voting bloc. We predicted that other news outlets,... Continue reading
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Politics
Press Girds Loins as Big Time Leaves Undisclosed Location
July 1, 2004 03:24 PMThe vice president, it seems, has cursed his way back onto reporters' radar screens. Whether prompted by the f-word episode on the floor of the Senate last week, or in anticipation of Cheney's battleground state bus tour this... Continue reading
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Politics
Says Who? Says You
June 30, 2004 12:02 PMIt's only Wednesday, but The Boston Globe's Glen Johnson is already in the hunt for this week's unsupported lead prize. Today Johnson kicks off his story with this: "To detractors and even some supporters, John F. Kerry's decision this... Continue reading
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Politics
Profiles in Source Greasing
June 29, 2004 02:09 PMHaving done the veepstakes to death, awaiting the conventions or another naughty word from a White House official, what's a political reporter to do to pass the time? Serve up a gentle profile of one of the many top operatives... Continue reading
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Politics
Hooking This Week’s Cliche
June 28, 2004 03:19 PMEvery few weeks, campaign reporters go fishing for the new new thing -- that elusive cluster of voters with a single common trait who might swing the election. NASCAR Dads and Soccer Moms were the early favorites, but more recently... Continue reading
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Politics
Kerry: Beauty and the Beast
June 28, 2004 12:15 PMBy Liz Cox Barrett Once upon a time, not so very long ago, there was a senator named John who found himself on Al Gore's short list of potential running mates. The campaign press in the summer of 2000... Continue reading
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The Water Cooler
Deborah Orin on Snobby Broadsheets, a Non-Palsy White House, and Stories that Write Themselves
June 18, 2004 09:56 AMDeborah Orin Deborah Orin has been The New York Post's Washington, D.C. bureau chief since 1988, and has covered every presidential campaign since 1980. She worked briefly... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Press Backpedals, Prez Peddles, Bloggers Puzzle
June 17, 2004 12:22 PMAt The Captain's Quarters, Captain Ed goes Campaign Desk today, pounding the press for its coverage of the John-McCain-as-potential-Kerry-VP story. "The media," Captain writes, "notably the [Washington] Post and the New York Times, magnified this Democratic fantasy and gave... Continue reading
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Blog Report
JacketGate and Bulbs Bright and Dim
June 16, 2004 12:10 PMIt may be the same old same old in mainstream campaign coverage this week -- stale veepstakes speculation, more on the Wafer Watch, the latest thinking on how polarized the nation is or isn't -- but the creative juices are... Continue reading
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Politics
Tempted by the Kool-Aid
June 15, 2004 01:17 PMToday The Boston Globe's Glen Johnson reports on how recent developments -- a decline in jobless numbers, Bush's recent overtures to foreign leaders on Iraq, lower gas prices -- "are allowing President Bush to chip away at some of... Continue reading
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Blog Report
Claws Are Out, Blogsters Are In
June 14, 2004 12:48 PMWe know it's Monday, but this morning the Political Animal comes off a bit catty (which reminds us, we miss Friday cat blogging). Referencing a Time magazine piece about the blogosphere in which fellow-blogger Instapundit is named one... Continue reading
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Politics
The Power of the Shock Jock’s Flock
June 11, 2004 03:33 PMToday, the New York Times' Adam Nagourney serves up a piece on the "undecided voter," that 5 percent of the voting public being chased by both campaigns. This "thimbleful of voters," Nagourney writes, is largely "disengaged from the presidential... Continue reading
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Politics
Punching the Reheat Button
June 10, 2004 12:28 PMCampaign Desk saw it coming: a slow week for campaign news, the kind of week in which aimless reporters with too much time on their hands decide to inflict their readers with endless news-free speculations about just who Sen.... Continue reading
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Politics
As Goes Pittsburgh, So Goes … ?
June 8, 2004 02:09 PMCampaign Desk wondered what the political press would do with its time this week with both candidates off the trail and with reporters having already chewed the what-will-Reagan's-death-mean-for-the-campaign angle to mush. The Associated Press's Jennifer C. Yates used the... Continue reading
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Magazine Report
Remembering the Past, Pontificating About the Present, Infesting the Future
June 8, 2004 10:57 AMNo, you're not diplopic. And the identical cover images of a grinning, cowboy-hat-and-denim-shirt-donning Ronald Reagan are just the start of the similarities between this week's commemorative issues of Time and Newsweek. Both newsweeklies take a break, for the... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Votes, Quotes (and Dirt), Fresh from the Oven
June 5, 2004 04:14 PMBy Liz Cox Barrett The day after Earth Day 2004, the Republican National Committee rolled out SUV-gate. "DON'T BLAME ME FOR SUV," blared the headline on an April 23 "Research Briefing" available on the RNC... Continue reading
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Politics
MSNBC Gets Punk’d
June 3, 2004 05:21 PMThey're ba-ack! MSNBC's Michael E. Ross today discovers "Punk Republicans," an exotic species previously identified by The New York Times, The Washington Times, and Agence France-Presse. Like those who came before him, reporter Ross points... Continue reading
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Politics
Sun Rises In The East, Kerry Said
June 3, 2004 11:22 AMThe Associated Press's Nedra Pickler today takes "he said/she said" campaign reporting to new heights -- or depths -- in her report previewing Sen. John Kerry's speech at the Truman Presidential Library in Independence, Missouri today. Pickler writes, "Kerry... Continue reading
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Politics
Swing(ing) Voters
May 21, 2004 02:21 PMThe never-ending search for the demographic group that will swing the election has taken reporters down some strange roads. The award for the strangest to date, however, goes to two reporters who consult the poles as well as the... Continue reading
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