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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...
...moderated by Government Professor Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53 and co-sponsored by the Center for American Political Studies and the Program on Constitutional Government, Kristol attributed this year’s Democratic success to a favorable political atmosphere for the left, not a permanent Republican decline. He began by saying that because of the recent Democratic victory, he imagined that he would receive “special sympathy, empathy, and condolence” on the notoriously liberal Harvard campus, drawing laughter from the audience. He said that for the Republican Party, the “most...
...head. Despite the e-mail’s subject line—”Fidel Castro endorses Obama”—the former Cuban president had done no such thing. The image was a doctored advertisement aimed at Cuban-American voters circulated by the Florida Republican Party. In a presentation at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society yesterday, government Professor D. Sunshine Hillygus showed this advertisement and others, arguing that the Internet has not only changed how politicians campaign, but also what they tell voters. Hillygus focused on data from the 2004 election to describe...
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...gets things done," Lieberman told a crowd in Peterborough, N.H., on Sunday night, wearing his "lucky" red sweater that he sported when he endorsed McCain last December. "I want to present myself immodestly as Exhibit A. I'm a Democrat, re-elected as an Independent, here to support the Republican candidate." And when Obama won, Lieberman struck a decidedly conciliatory tone in a statement: "Now that the election is over, it is time to put partisan considerations aside and come together as a nation to solve the difficult challenges we face and make our blessed land stronger and safer...