Category Archives: campaigns
“Texas Rangers investigate campaign of mayoral candidate Roberts’
Keene Star: “A Keene resident who owns a restaurant in Cleburne and is a candidate to be Keene’s highest ranking elected official is in a pickle. Dan Roberts, one of three candidates to be mayor of Keene, is being… Continue reading
“Jacob Rowbottom: Campaign Lies and the First Amendment”
See this blog post.
“How Obama could be blown to victory by Superstorm Sandy”
“Shashank Tripathi, Last Night’s Twitter Villain”
BuzzFeed: “During the storm last night, user @comfortablysmug was the source of a load of frightening but false information about conditions in New York City that spread wildly on Twitter and onto news broadcasts before ConEd, the MTA, and… Continue reading
“The Popular Vote and Presidential Legitimacy”
Jonathan Adler: “Recent polling results present the possibility that Mitt Romney could win the popular vote but lose the electoral vote. Would this matter? It shouldn’t. We’ve seen this before, and it is not at all unusual for a… Continue reading
“EXCLUSIVE: Romney Campaign Training Poll Watchers To Mislead Voters In Wisconsin”
I expect we will hear more about this.
Activists Pour Cash into Voter Turnout
“Early Voting Mesmerizing”
Michael McDonald: “Everyone wants to know who is winning. In my commentary below I explain why I conclude Obama has narrow leads in Iowa and Nevada, Romney has a narrow lead in North Carolina, and in the remainder the… Continue reading
“Campaign lawyers gear up for nail-biter election”
“Obama Is Even in TV Ad Race Despite PACs”
Important NYT report: “A review of data from the last 30 days from Kantar Media/CMAG, which tracks political ad placements, shows that 160,000 commercials supporting the president have run, compared with 140,000 for Mr. Romney. And the Obama… Continue reading
“‘Souls to the Polls’ Pulls in Voters Sunday”
The Ledger reports from Tallahassee.
“Voter Intimidation in Ohio? Not that I could see”
Doyle McManus in Ohio.