On Tuesday, I had the chance to chat briefly with Liz Mair, the RNC’s online communications director in the party’s eCampaign division. 
Mair writes for the RNC’s official blog and is tasked with reaching out to the blogosphere. In other words, she’s fighting the perception of a GOP out of touch with the youth vote.
“I think […]

[Read more →]

The Republican National Committee isn’t happy about this anti-McCain ad:

On Monday, the RNC demanded that NBC, CNN and MSNBC stop airing the DNC-sponsored commercial, saying that it deliberately distorts McCain’s words.
At issue is McCain’s answer, in January, to a question about Bush’s theory that troops could be in Iraq for 50 years.
McCain said: “Maybe 100. […]

[Read more →]

Making my normal rounds about the blogsphere I first caught my eye on a Politico running tally of super delegates, showing Senator Clinton leading Senator Obama by 19 super delegates; somehow in my daily routines I had missed how close that part of the race had become.
Anyway, what really caught my eye was an […]

[Read more →]

The North Carolina Republican Party has decided to run the following ad against the wishes of the presumptive Republican Nominee, John McCain.
The ad connects Rev. Wright to Obama to a down-ticket race in NC.

McCain sent a letter of protest to the NC GOP, asking them to drop the ad:
This ad does not live up […]

[Read more →]

Yes, he did.
But Rep. Ron Paul still got 16 percent of the vote, and former Ark. Gov. Mike Huckabee 11 percent. As The Boston Globe points out, that’s not terribly unusual:
In 2000, the last contested Republican presidential race, competitors were still winning sizable shares of the vote well after George W. Bush had secured the […]

[Read more →]

By Will Mari, SeattlePoliticore
Carly Fiorina, the former CEO of Hewlett-Packard and now the “victory chair” for the Republican National Committee and Sen. John McCain, swung through town this past Thursday.
As one of McCain’s campaign surrogates, she is tasked with raising money for the RNC and getting the base fired up for the presidential election.

[Read more →]

 
MoveRed.org sent out a press release late yesterday afternoon highlighting a video posted to Facebook by the UW’s Young Democrats. The video features members of the YD leadership team, including Max Wagner and Alex Lark, talking in what seems to be a satirical way about race, religion and terrorism.
But in this sensistive media environment, and in […]

[Read more →]

 
By Will Mari, SeattlePoliticore.org
The youth vote and “Obamamania” seem to be one and the same. 
Young Democrats are fired up about Sen. Barack Obama’s  twin, if somewhat vague, messages of hope and change in a way not seen since Democratic Sen. Eugene McCarthy ran as a populist insurgent in the 1968 presidential election.  
But what about […]

[Read more →]

Sen. John McCain today discussed new tax plans, including a suspension of gas taxes, in a speech strategically delivered on the deadline date for filing tax returns.
He called for Congress to suspend the 18.4 cent federal gas tax and 24.4 cent diesel tax from Memorial Day to Labor Day, when summer travelers feel the pain […]

[Read more →]

It’s not secret that the “youthquake” will be critical to this fall’s presidential election. Democrats have been reaching out aggressively to voters between the ages of 18-30. “Obamamania” is not an accident: the DNC has dialed into the passion and organizational skills of young voters in caucus state after caucus state.
Meanwhile, the GOP seems to […]

[Read more →]