How media moves

Barack Obama is going to be on the Daily Show tonight. How do I know? Twitter. Their election site is a buzz with infomercial talk. Moreover, they are wondering what’s going to happen when Jon Stewart can make fun of the Obamathon. Obama will dominate the cycle. The question becomes is this overload? Will it [...]

Obama infomercial great for the faithful…not many others

Just watched the Obamathon (available in full above) and it seems clear that it wanted to achieve three basic things:
1. Continue to drive home the point that Barack Obama is “one of us.” Stories of his mother and absent father, stories of his grandparents, images of him with the girls. Obama [...]

Quick Hit: Managing Expectations

For those of you wondering how bad (or good) Senator McCain’s chances are and are confused by the endless horserace style coverage let me try to break it down simply.
Basically Obama is running hard in states Bush won in 2004. While the electoral map is largely the same, in terms of battleground states. Obama [...]

William Kristol Begs: Let McCain be McCain

In his NY Times Column this week, William Kristol wants McCain to fire his campaign staff and work from the gut. He writes:
The McCain campaign, once merely problematic, is now close to being out-and-out dysfunctional. Its combination of strategic incoherence and operational incompetence has become toxic…. 
…What McCain needs to do is junk the whole thing [...]

Obama buys major air time

Quick hit: Obama buying prime time air on NBC and CBS October 29th in unprecendented air time buy in election season.

Obama: Where’s the Passion?

There were two moments in Tuesday night’s debate where Senator Obama almost made the debate memorable. Almost. 
One was the question on national service and sacrifice, where Obama came right to the edge of saying that Americans were going to have to tighten their belts when it came to energy use. But he balked and parsed [...]

John McCain channels Rove and kills his brand

One of the questions that gets John McCain most onery these days is “where is the old McCain?” On television appearances like on “The View” and in various pool reports, McCain get visibly annoyed at the question. 
Reading the transcript from a recent Time Magazine interview, you can almost hear McCain’s annoyance: 
There’s a theme that recurs [...]

Obama launches iPhone App

In the lastest sign Barack Obama’s campaign is centered on youth it announced the launch of a free app for the iPhone today. I am a confessed iPhone addict, I downloaded the app and gave it a test drive. The uses are interesting. At an iphone-friendly flick and tap, you can find local events, find [...]

EJ Dionne: The McCain Stunt Not Presidential

Washington Post Columnist EJ Dionne is up with a column that explains a little of how the sausage got made in the McCain’s campaign suspension. Then he proceeds to rip it up. His principle argument lies in that bipartisanship and negotiating were already well underway, McCain’s intervention mearly muddied the waters. 
…for days, bipartisanship has been [...]

Suspension of disbelief

John McCain has proven one thing time and again when it comes to this presidential campaign and general election specifically. He will gamble big and worry about ramifications later. It’s becoming a pattern and you wonder how far he’ll go. 
On the eve of the conventions (remember the conventions, feels like 6 months ago right?) the [...]