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Cool on Record Number of Candidates Running Political Campaigns for Congress

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:21:55 +0000

Thanks for this!

annna on Record Number of Candidates Running Political Campaigns for Congress

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:31:44 +0000

great site really informative i learned a lot great stuff keep it up

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DrJet on Record Number of Candidates Running Political Campaigns for Congress

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 21:15:38 +0000

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Joe Garecht on Incumbent Candidates: Political Campaigns for Re-Election

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:43:55 +0000

Great points -- Remember that while incumbents often (usually... always...) have a money and name recognition advantage, they also have a record to run against and they often get bored and lazy --- if you're thinking about running against an incumbent, try to find one that is running thier campaign on "auto-pilot..."

nunya on SEO for Political Campaign Candidate Websites

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 20:46:43 +0000

what happened to this site? no updates in a few weeks!

Squidoo for Politica on SEO for Political Campaign Candidate Websites

Sun, 20 Jun 2010 21:14:45 +0000

[...] talked before about how to practice effective search engine optimization to get your political campaign candidate website ranking for local search terms. One of the most [...]

killercampaigning on Anyone Can Run a Political Campaign for Office

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:23:02 +0000

One of my 2-year-old daughter Sophie's favorite movies is Ratatouille, a really well-written cartoon about a rat named Remy who has an unusual gift for cooking fine cuisine. A character in the movie, Chef Gusteau, has a catch phrase that encapsulates his kitchen philosophy: "Anyone Can Cook."

So, what does this have to do with political campaigns and local elections? Well, it just so happens that Chef Gusteau's philosophy on cooking is very similar to my philosophy on political candidates.

In Ratatouille, the anti-Gasteau crowd is aghast at the idea that great cooks can come from anywhere, and think that…

killercampaigning on Record Number of Candidates Running Political Campaigns for Congress

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 09:37:21 +0000

For a blog like Killer Campaigning that focuses on political campaign strategy, this is great news: the Associated Press reports today that a record number of candidates are running for congress this year. More than 2,300 people are running for seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, which is the most challengers that the Federal Elections Commission has recorded since 1975 when it started keeping track of this kind of thing. Here's a snippet from their story:

". . . Riggs is among the 2,341 people who have filed statements of candidacy with the FEC for the 2010…

AR-Land Comm: More F on Yard Sign Design Rules: Democrats Blue, Republicans Red?

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:40:02 +0000

[...] “Guy With The Red Sign,” care to opine? Perhaps Mike Berg and the over 20,000 people that voted for him for LC last month [...]

Ed on Money Makes Political Campaigns Easier to Win (Well, Duh)

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:54:45 +0000

What are your recommendations on how to most effectively spend "extra money". More direct mail pieces? Paid walkers/challengers/callers? More newspapers ads?

killercampaigning on Money Makes Political Campaigns Easier to Win (Well, Duh)

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:27:40 +0000

Hold on to your hats, people: in a recent speech, George Mason University economics professor Thomas Stratmann claimed that "money is important in politics."

All kidding aside, Stratman's research does give us some interesting, concrete figures on just how much your your chances of winning an election increase if more people donate money to your political campaign. Here are some of the more interesting bits of data:

"Stratmann measured the probability by focusing on the amount a candidate spends on advertising. His findings revealed that a candidate receives slightly more votes when he or she outspends an opponent by $100,000…

killercampaigning on New Political Campaign Technology: SMS/Text Phone Bank Calling

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:08:48 +0000

Shaun Dakin has the word on some brand-spanking-new political campaign technology being used by the Carly Fiorina campaign in California that uses SMS/text messaging to make it easy for volunteers to do phone banking from their own homes.

The process is a little confusing at first, but here's a rundown: you text the Fiorina campaign to let them know you want to make phone bank calls. The Fiorina campaign automatically texts you back with the name and phone number of a targeted voter household. You make the call, note the voter's response, then text the results back to the Fiorina campaign. …

JoeGarecht on Writing a First Draft for Political Campaign Lit & Mail

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:15:37 +0000

Phil, great tip... it goes hand in hand with the idea that in order to get re-elected, politicians should always act like they are candidates -- do lit drops, maintain voter files, work the room at local meetings.

In today's political environment, it's one big constant campaign!

Keep up the great work on your site!

JoeGarecht on Dressing for Political Campaigns: What to Wear in Local Elections

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 04:15:19 +0000

Great tips, Phil... I'd add one more that I learned the hard way while consulting on a state legislative race: take the candidate into account.

In the race I mentioned, the candidate was, well... a large man. And it was summer. A hot summer... you get the picture. Anyway, he insisted on wearing a full grey suit, and withing an hour he was showing sweat, right through the suit. Bad choice. Better would have been a dark polo shirt, one that kept him cool and didn't show sweat.

So, remember, keep your candidate in mind!

Joe

killercampaigning on Campaign Nonsense: Newspaper Removes Candidates From Photo

Mon, 31 May 2010 15:59:48 +0000

This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard of a local newspaper doing. Apparently The Dominion Post, a newspaper published in Morgantown, West Virginia, decided to completely remove the images of three elected officials who appeared in a picture showing the governor signing a bill into law.

The Dominion Post apparently used Photoshop to manipulate the picture and remove the images of Marion County House of Delegates members Mike Caputo, Linda Longstreth, and Tim Manchin. Here's the before and after:

So, why the photo manipulation? Because The Dominion has a policy against running pictures of political…