From the story I wrote with Eliot Brown this week about the Independence Party, which is looking beyond 2010, and hoping to get past that Ross Perot problem:
The highlight of Mr. MacKay’s new standing will come in early July, when he hopes to conduct a few private screenings of a 48-minute documentary showing Read More
John Kennedy's 1960 guest spot on Jack Parr's show is generally regarded as the first time a national politician tried to use an appearance on an entertainment television show to boost his appeal. (James Reston of The New York Times said during the 1960 presidential campaign that there were now two litmus tests for each Read More
The take-away line from Barack Obama’s Sunday appearance on “Meet the Press” was the president-elect’s declaration that “the economy is going to get worse before it gets better.”
Obviously, no one would argue with that, and it’s certainly smart politics for Obama to talk in such terms, as a way of tempering the public’s outsized Read More
While in Austin, Texas today, Michael Bloomberg met with Clay Mulford, the guy who helped get independent presidential candidate Ross Perot on the ballot, the AP reports. (Mulford also happens to be Perot’s son-in-law.)
While the AP story notes Bloomberg “would need to collect about 74,100 signatures by Read More
The arguments have already begun over which party's White House hopes will be destroyed by Mike Bloomberg. And on one level, it's a debate worth having, since third party efforts tend to appeal lopsidedly to one side of the political spectrum.
But the most direct precedent for Mr. Bloomberg's prospective bid is Read More
Back in the late 1990’s, Mike Bloomberg was just another media mogul and Kevin Sheekey was a young aide floating a crazy idea: that his boss would run for Mayor of New York.
Now Mr. Bloomberg is Mayor, and Mr. Sheekey, freighted with a long City Hall title, has been floating another suggestion: Mike Read More
Back in the late 1990’s, Mike Bloomberg was just another media mogul and Kevin Sheekey was a young aide floating a crazy idea: that his boss would run for Mayor of New York.
Now Mr. Bloomberg is Mayor, and Mr. Sheekey, freighted with a long City Hall title, has been floating another suggestion: Mike for Read More
Remember the papers eight years ago? A charming maniac entered the Presidential race as a third-party candidate in October. Over the final month of the campaign, The New York Times mentioned Ross Perot in nearly 400 stories, many of them front-page articles. There was one whole story about a Perot campaign official (“Mr. Swindle joined Read More
Assuming that millennial prognostications of doom and judgment are false-and therefore that this newspaper will be published on schedule eight days after this column is being written-it seems at least one safe prediction can be made. Politics in America will proceed along the heavily rutted centrist path of the past decade.
Given the unappetizing Read More
Third parties rarely live up to their advance billing. If such efforts were advertised accurately-that is, if they were described as vainglorious crusades bound to have no noticeable effect on national elections, besides occasionally frustrating the aspirations of a major-party candidate-then nobody would enlist. But the Reform Party, originally inflated by the money and rhetoric Read More
