Posts Tagged ‘Political campaign’
Romney campaign won’t provide pool reports to non-traveling Media
By Albert N. Milliron Iron Mill News Service and Politisite receive daily pool reports from the White House - We think that the Romney campaign is making a BIG mistake not providing pool reports to us and better known reporters like Cox reporter Jamie Dupree. Hopefully our posting a portion of this article will encourage Romney’s political operatives to get with the program and provide pool reports to the larger group of News folks who report on the presidential campaign that don’t have reporters on the campaign trail I was pretty excited on Monday morning to read that the Romney campaign had decided to send out “pool” press reports about what the candidate for President was doing. It would give me more Campaign 2012 information to talk about over the next three months on [...]
Arizona 8th District Special Election – Kelly (D) vs. Barber (R) – June 12, 2012 – Politisite Political Projections
Politisite provides projections based on a Momentum modality similar to that used in projecting stock prices. Our modality projects what the election results will look like on election day. Politisite does NOT endorse any candidate during the primary process. Further, we do not receive funding from any political campaign. Having said that, here are our projections for the Arizona Special Election 8th congressional district for June12, 2012 Barber (D) – 53% (+8) Kelly (R) – 45% Manolakis (G) -2% We believe that these results will reflect the percentage once all the votes have been counted. Our Margin of Error (MOE) for the Recall election is 3.0 percentage points Related articles Wisconsin Recall Election - Politisite Political Projections - Walker +5% [...]
Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art
The intersection of propaganda and creative culture has always been a centerpiece of political communication, from the branding of totalitarian regimes to the design legacy of the Works Progress Administration to Soviet animated propaganda. Now, from The Library of Congress — America’s most centralized collective memory — and Quirk Books comes Presidential Campaign Posters: Two Hundred Years of Election Art — a magnificent large-format volume of 100 tear-out, ready-to-frame political campaign posters from the Library of Congress archives, each contextualized by a short historical essay on the respective election, alongside its final electoral and popular vote statistics. In the preface, NPR’s always-brilliant media pundit Brooke Gladstone writes: We media consumers [...]
Obama Marks 100 fundraisers
Via Mark Knoller NASHUA, New Hampshire -- By day's end, President Obama will hit 100 on the campaign fundraising scoreboard. He reaches the century mark by doing four money-raising events for his re-election campaign during a seven-hour swing through New York City. The visit follows a speech this afternoon here in Nashua, New Hampshire on the energy components of his strategy to boost the economy and create jobs. It has taken Mr. Obama less than a year to do a hundred re-election fund-raisers since he officially filed his candidacy for a second term with the Federal Election Commission on April 4, 2011. via Obama fundraisers hit century mark - Political Hotsheet - CBS News.
Politisite Political Projections: Florida Primary January 31, 2012
Politisite provides projections based on a Momentum modality similar to that used in projecting stock prices. Politisite does NOT endorse any candidate during the primary process. Further, we do not receive funding from any political campaign. Having said that, here are our projections for the Florida Primary for January 31, 2012 Mitt Romney – 42% (+13) Newt Gingrich – 29% Rick Santorum – 13% Ron Paul – 10% We do see some downward Trending on Mitt Romney, we attribute this to over kill as he is advertising at rates in excess of seven to one in some areas of Florida. Gingrich is beginning to Trend upwards and should fall within 4 percentage points of our stated projection. We are more confindent that he will end up higher rather that lower. Santorum has [...]
Twitter a Critical Tool in Political Campaigns
Anyone who follows politics on Twitter, has seen in it's use grow from comments by it's users and news services about politics to being used by Campaigns to generate funds for it's campaign, Fact checking, to pro- campaign messages to oppositional attacks on the others. President Obama has also used Twitter to generate calls to Congress to achieve it's desired outcomes for public policy. Politisite uses twitter to ReTweet it's followers the large scope of political messaging from all political persuasions. We did this so often that we ended up placing a disclaimer (like many others) that Politisite does not Endorse any candidates and that ReTweets should not be construed as endorsing the opinions. We also use twitter to make our followers aware of our recent Posts to our Website [...]
Politisite Political Projections: South Carolina Primary January 21, 2012
Politisite provides projections based on a Momentum modality similar to that used in projecting stock prices. Politisite does NOT endorse any candidate during the primary process. Further, we do not receive funding from any political campaign. Having said that, here are our projections for the South Carolina Primary for January 21, 2012 Newt Gingrich – 32% (+1) Mitt Romney – 31% Rick Santorum – 18% Ron Paul – 14% Rick Perry – 2% Others - 3% We do see some heavy downward pressure from the potential interview of Newt Gingrich former wife. We expect with the election cycle filled with political punditry following this Thursday nite interview, we think that there will be a 5 percentage point difference than what our projections reflect. That downward pressure [...]
Herman Cain Suspends His Campaign
After much soul searching, Herman Cain announced that he would suspend his campaign as President of the United States. Cain, until allegations emerged was for some time the front runner of the GOP Presidential candidates. His 9-9-9 plan had resonated with voters. The announcement was made at his campaign headquarters in Georgia on a day that was to be the official unveiling. With his wife Gloria by his side, walking hand in hand on the stage, Herman Cain explained why he had chosen to run for President of the United States. He described his humble beginnings, with his father being a chauffeur and his mother a maid in a segregated America. “I grew up in a world of segregated water fountains,” he said. “My father was a chauffeur and my mother was a maid. We showed that [...]
Obama campaign has losts of help, Why? unemployed College students have lots of Free time
Barack Obama's approval ratings are down, Republican challengers are beating him in polls and the U.S. economy is in a slump, yet the Democratic president's re-election campaign headquarters is buzzing. There are no signs with "Hope" or "Change" -- Obama's popular slogans in 2008 -- hanging prominently at the office in downtown Chicago. Simple "2012" posters with the president's website cover the walls instead. But youthful enthusiasm abounds at the 50,000-square-foot (4,645-sq-m) nerve center, where some 200 staff members and volunteers are racing ahead of the Republican candidates in raising cash and setting up a national campaign network. The space is nearly twice as big as Obama's 2008 campaign headquarters, which came in around 31,000 square feet, and the team of strategists, [...]
Obama Campaign won’t be Transparent with Fundraising Disclosure at Events
Pres. Obama's re-election campaign won't be disclosing how much money is taken in at the individual fundraising events attended by Pres. Obama. Neither will the Democratic National Committee. An official says it's the same policy by which the Obama Campaign operated in the 2008 election cycle. Fundraising numbers have to be filed with the Federal Election Commission, but often not until weeks later - and the FEC documents don't itemize amounts raised at specific fundraising events. The Obama Campaign is not the first to adopt such a policy, although Pres. Bush's re-election operation in 2004 freely disclosed how much money was taken in at individual events. The Obama Campaign thinks the release of such information might be akin to divulging strategic political information [...]
