Killer Campaigning got an interesting question today from someone named “Fred Johnson” (no location provided) on doing your own defensive political campaign opposition research: “I wish to run for office. I was wondering how do I do oppositional research on myself before running and how do I put a positive spin on character flaws I [...]
We usually stick to political campaign and local election strategy here on Killer Campaigning, but I have a quick question for any readers who run partisan political blogs: what do you think about the efforts of the Federal Election Commission to regulate political speech online? I haven’t followed the developments very closely, but The Blog [...]
Here’s some advice I was reminded of this morning that’s very important to know for any local election candidate who plans on doing lots of door-to-door political campaigning. If you’re leaving campaign literature, fliers, brochures or door cards at people’s houses, make sure your stuff doesn’t come in contact with the mailbox in any way. [...]
Idaho congressional candidate Vaughn Ward, who is a major in the Marine reserves, was recently told by the Marine Corps that he violated a Pentagon directive by wearing his military uniform in a political campaign Internet advertisement. In the ad, Vaughn is shown wearing camouflage and body armor with his rifle at his side. This [...]
News out of Britain today that the Welsh Liberal Democrats–who are one political party running in a hotly-contested national election–are facing criticism for staging a fake political campaign ad that features someone dressed up as a police officer. The charge is that the person in the photo is not actually a police officer, but rather [...]
The company that manufactures the food product Marmite is suing the British National Party . . . because the political group used a picture of a jar of Marmite in some of their campaign advertisements without permission from the company. According to The IP Factor: “For readers who were deprived of a British or South [...]
If you’re going to be a candidate running a political campaign for office in a local election, then one of the most important places for you to visit online is your Secretary of State’s website. In most cases, the Secretary of State is the elected state official whose office is in charge of all election [...]