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Maverick in a mess

If McCain loses, is it the mainstream media's fault?
A number of pundits, mostly of the conservative variety, would like you to believe that if Barack Obama wins on Tuesday, it's the mainstream media’s fault. Don't believe a word of it.
By STEVEN STARK | November 01, 2008

Wacko patrol: America's 25 scariest conservatives

The Phoenix ranks the individuals who will hold the most sway over the right-wing message machine in 2009, and beyond.
Imagine what will happen once the relatively sane folks now running the White House and the Republican National Committee pack up and go home?
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | November 03, 2008

Dawg days

The 2008 campaign is turning out to be our first-ever American Idol election
Despite gains by blogs, podcasts, and social-networking Web sites, television is still our dominant mass medium.
By STEVEN STARK | September 03, 2008

O's got a TV eye on you

The era of TV advertising in presidential general elections is over
With his decision to forgo public funding, Barack Obama can raise as much as he wants, giving him a huge financial advantage in the fall campaign.
By STEVEN STARK | June 25, 2008

‘Sorry’ state

How to eliminate a bad decision or policy misstep and win back voters
A leading theme among Democrats this year is how they won’t allow Barack Obama to be “Swift-boated,” as John Kerry was in 2004.
By STEVEN STARK | October 27, 2008

Clinton’s ‘kitchen-sink’ strategy could yield Pyrrhic victory

Talking points
Many Democrats, it seems safe to say, never thought a Democrat, let alone Hillary Clinton, would use a similar tactic.
By IAN DONNIS | March 12, 2008

Damn you, Barack Obama

Win or lose, Obama's small donors may have already brought a revolution in campaign financing
Now that Obama's small contributors have effectively rewritten the history of political-campaign funding, even die-hard cynics are drinking the Kool-Aid.
By AL GIORDANO | September 26, 2007

Can Bush be beaten?

It won’t be easy, but here’s one scenario for a Democratic victory
This article originally appeared in the November 15, 1991 issue of the Boston Phoenix.
By JOHN KELLER | November 14, 2006

Beats moving

Press Herald editor heading south
Eric Conrad, the Portland Press Herald 's managing editor for the past five years, is leaving May 1 to become the editor of the News-Times in Danbury, Connecticut.
By JEFF INGLIS | April 19, 2006

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