(Hat-tip Ben Smith.)

When Sen. Hillary Clinton announced her presidential bid, she did so by “beginning a conversation” with voters. “So let’s talk. Let’s have a chat. Let’s start a dialogue,” she said. “I have a feeling it’s going to be very interesting.”
And she was right. This year’s primary season has been very [...]

Senators Barack Obama and Chris Dodd both announced new ads in Iowa today. Dodd’s is a TV ad, while Obama’s is a radio ad.
Obama’s ad (listen here) features Duffy Lyon, the so-called “Butter Cow Lady,” and it could be the best ad of the campaign so far. Yeah, it’s folksy. Maybe it’s [...]

A couple months ago, I blogged about Sen. Hillary Clinton’s Iowa TV ad buy, which included spots on the Hallmark Channel (during, among other shows, Walker, Texas Ranger). Clinton remains the only candidate to appear on that network with any regularity, from what I have been able to observe.
But Sen. Barack Obama, not to [...]

Tonight’s Democratic debate, in which candidates stick it to the man on issues like health care, climate change, taxes, etc., has been brought to us by the following companies:

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I just received a press release from the Clinton campaign that is entirely in Spanish. It’s sent from their normal press address to, from what I can tell, their full press list. This is the first all-Spanish release I have received from a presidential campaign this year, and I find it interesting that [...]

Democrats in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada, South Carolina, and Washington, DC, rushed to pressure their presidential candidates to pledge not to campaign in any other states planning to hold primaries before February 5. Republicans did not, perhaps knowing that such a pledge would hurt Rudy Giuliani, the Republican candidate most likely to win a [...]

And now, the post wherein I undermine whatever credibility I might have left by admitting that I watch the Hallmark Channel:
Yes, from midnight to 2AM central time each night, I allow the soothing action sequences and overt Republican undertones of the mediocre show Walker, Texas Ranger to lull me to sleep. It’s a guilty [...]

Congressman Ron Paul’s R-LOVE-ution is on the air with a 30-second TV spot that, according to the Register, will run in Sioux City, Des Moines, and Cedar Rapids. The ad, which is better than Tancredo’s but worse than everyone else’s, highlights Paul’s record on fiscal policy, emphasizing that he has never accepted his Congressional [...]