Word: campaigners
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Here are a few observations from a New York outsider. In the first weekend after Halloween, and with the spine-numbing pleasure of Paranormal Activity in many moviegoers' minds, The Fourth Kind benefitted from a beguilingly creepy ad campaign, giving glimpses of alien possession. Audiences didn't feel the same urgency, seven weeks before Christmas, to see the 467th version of A Christmas Carol, whose trailer emphasized hectic, hurtful chase scenes over the Scroogean character comedy and hearth-and-heart sentiment. As for Precious, $100,000 a screen is a feat accomplished only twice before (by Dreamgirls and Brokeback Mountain...
Cheung’s campaign was also unique in that he spent the least of all the candidates elected. While Decker reported the highest campaign expenditures of any candidate—more than $57,000 as of Nov. 4—Cheung spent less than $5,000, according to reports compiled from the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance...
...think what was special about it was that we reached out to the community at large, but also to the groups that are not normally courted,” said Michael E. Sherry, Cheung’s campaign manager...
...campaign, which emphasized improving public safety and increasing collaboration between the city and universities, sought the votes of students and Asian-Americans, Sherry said...
...blaming Tymoshenko for mishandling the government's response efforts. Viktor Yanukovych, the leader of the opposition and front-runner in the presidential race, has called for the Health Minister to be fired and accused Tymoshenko of putting people's health at risk by launching her own presidential campaign with a rally just six days before the ban on public gatherings was announced. "Tymoshenko knew she shouldn't bring such a large number of people to Kiev. It was a feast at the time of a plague," he says. Current President Viktor Yushchenko - Tymoshenko's former partner in the 2004 Orange...