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Entries for February 2007
Gary Pearce posted on February 07, 2007 12:52
For decades Democrats have lived by two rules of political survival: Support the death penalty. Don’t raise taxes.
So now Lieutenant Governor –...
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Carter Wrenn posted on February 06, 2007 14:09
Senator Claire McCaskill, the newly elected (with a boost from Michael J. Fox) Missouri Democrat, won “election last year with a populist campaign bas...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 06, 2007 12:38
The News & Observer published a story last week about how blogs are changing local politics. It’s by Jesse James DeConto (you gotta love his...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 06, 2007 10:27
Why does Mike Easley do it?
Why – with all his communications skills – does he work so hard at not communicating?
As Governor, he commands a big mic...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 05, 2007 11:16
It’s an old PR trick: Put out bad news on Friday. Hope it gets lost over the weekend.
That’s what the Bush Administration did last Friday with ...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 02, 2007 10:17
We Democrats are chatty folks.
Our presidential candidates launch their campaigns with web-side chats. Hillary sits on the couch for a chat.&nb...
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Carter Wrenn posted on February 02, 2007 10:16
When President Bush met with House Republicans in a closed door session to defend his new troop deployment, he said, “I’m the decision-maker.” (News a...
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Carter Wrenn posted on February 01, 2007 14:42
It may be a coincidence and not the vaunted Clinton PR machine at work, but since Hillary announced there have been two attacks on John Edwards (see G...
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Gary Pearce posted on February 01, 2007 13:33
The most eloquent – and effective – Democratic spokesman today may be a former Marine and Reagan Cabinet member: Jim Webb.
If you missed the Virginia...
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Carter Wrenn posted on February 01, 2007 13:29
It seemed peculiar: After former Speaker Jim Black had the State House pay one of his political appointees $80,000 to write a ‘history’ of the State H...
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