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...fear is a key strategic instrument in political campaigns, according to Alex Castellanos, a Republican media consultant and Institute of Politics Fellow who hosted a discussion on the subject on Friday. Three days after the 2008 presidential election, the talk centered on the ways that television campaign advertisements play on voters’ fears. Castellanos, who has been responsible for creating numerous television campaign ads, said that fear is both an important and necessary part of politics. “We need more fear in politics,” he said. He analogized the use of negative ads in campaigns...
...deep in large part because so many Democrats earned Executive Branch experience during the eight years of the Clinton presidency. It would be absurd to imagine Obama bypassing all of that experience in the name of bringing in only fresh blood. Undoubtedly, Obama will also bring in loyal campaign staffers and advisers who are not Clinton-era veterans. But installing someone like Emanuel to anchor the White House staff makes eminent sense. As Begala says, "It helps to have someone around who knows where the Situation Room...
...Several days passed after word that Obama wanted Emanuel as his chief of staff before Emanuel actually accepted the job. Some observers expressed frustration that he seemed to be dragging out the first high-profile hire of an incoming Administration whose campaign had been respected for its notable lack of drama; others speculated that Emanuel was torn, because he had spoken openly of wanting to follow Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. But Emanuel's path to the Speakership wasn't guaranteed. More important, his wife and three children live in Chicago. Friends say Emanuel struggled with the idea...
...formality of the occasion journalists and staff alike shed the jeans they'd been living in through the final weeks of the campaign and ironed out their wrinkled suits and skirts. The seating was assigned, with the names of news agencies scrawled on pieces of paper and taped to the backs of chairs, a first for the Obama organization. Reporters asked one another before hand if it would be appropriate to type notes as he spoke, as we always did when he was just a candidate. The answer quickly became clear: not a single computer remained on for the press...
...Obama, who in press conferences usually just points and says "yes" - even going so far as to use the order similar to that used by President Bush: the wires first, then the networks, the hometown Chicago reporters, and then the major papers. In another notable departure from the campaign, journalists formally stood to pose their questions...