At about this time every three months, we have to endure the typical quarterly fundraising roundups. This one from The Hill shows the problem with the genre, headlined "FEC reports show Crist the man to beat in Florida." This in response to...

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Our friend Jonathan Rick notes an interesting trend: more big companies are eschewing the traditional press release, and are announcing news in first-person media like blogs and Twitter:Indeed, as Claire Cain Miller reported in a much-discussed article...

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That title is provocative, and deliberately so. I'd like to play Devil's Advocate and argue that blindly going along with the Dump Sanford crowd could seriously damage Republican elected officials' ability to weather future, hopefully less...

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When the #AllBarackChannel realizes something is going wrong, it's probably time to pay attention: Obama's spending proposals and a record-breaking national debt inherited from President Bush that is projected to grow could be Obama's...

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In Virginia today, this lost:   How many times do I have to say it? In the modern campaign, early money and establishment support matters far, far less than it used to, and could actually turn out to be a handicap -- particularly when money...

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