Archive for john mccain

‘It’s not what you say about the issues, it’s what the issues say about you’

26 March 2010 , , ,
I’ve recently stumbled across a piece by Lynne Featherstone MP which I’d forgotten about. Written in 2006, the points it makes about political campaigning still read well: Vietnam war vet and Republican John McCain and London mayor and former restaurant review Ken Livingstone are probably not often bracketed together politically! But I have been thinking recently [...]

Book review: learning from the Obama and McCain online advertising campaigns

2 March 2010 , , , , , , ,
Campaign ’08: A Turning Point For Digital Media is a slim volume by Kate Kaye, senior news editor at ClickZ, taking an in-depth look at the online advertising used in the 2008 Presidential contest for the primaries and then the general election. Though the book touches on other aspects of internet campaigning, what makes it stand [...]

How good was Obama’s campaign?

16 June 2009 , ,
Cross-posted from The Wardman Wire: I’ve blogged before about some of the myths around Obama’s campaign – the exaggerated tales of seas of small donors and soaring turnout. Now it’s time to look at how the votes played out across the country and see what it tells us. The US Presidential election is (with some minor exceptions) [...]

David Cameron forgets how many houses he has

28 May 2009 , ,
Shades of John McCain’s political blunder in this Times piece: So how many properties do you own? “I own a house in North Kensington which you’ve been to and my house in the constituency in Oxfordshire and that is, as far as I know, all I have.” A house in Cornwall? “No, that is, Samantha [...]