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Intl Political Comm: Concepts

Video:

"Demon Sheep Ad Man Tells All" Mother Jones

Reading:

"A cyber-house divided" The Economist

"Self-Segregation or Deliberation? Blog Readership, Participation, and Polarization in American Politics" by Eric Lawrence, John Sides, and Henry Farrell

(I wrote an article"Los blogs políticos y ciberpolarización" for the Spanish edition of Campaigns & Elections last April that was largely inspired and based on this research.)

 

 

Intl Political Comm: Concepts

 

Essential reading: Political Communications by Pippa Norris, Harvard University (the first three sections ending on page 4)

Video: Rachel Maddow Show interview with Gail Collins about Florida Pastor Phenonemon

Additional Reading: New York Times "Coverage of Koran Case Stirs Questions on Media Role"

White House Press Secretary Gibbs angers Pelosi

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs angered Nancy Pelosi and other House Democrats by recognizing in an appearance on Meet The Press on Sunday that there are "enough seats in play that could cause Republicans to take control of the House" (meaning that enough campaigns are close and either a Republican or Democrat could win in.

This Politico article explains Pelosi's anger and you can watch the video below where Gibbs made the comments.

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Daily Training for June 11th: How did Alvin Green win the Democratic US Senate nomination in South Carolina?

One of the strangest and most surprising stories of Tuesday's primary is that of Alvin Greene who won the South Carolina Democratic nomination for the US Senate. The only money he spent was the $10,400 required to register as a candidate and nothing else. Democratic party officials were caught off guard--this is generally considered an un-winnable race against Republican incumbent Jim DeMint and a candidate with experience had been selected to try his best. The story gets worse since it's been revealed that he faces felony charges...a great example of how political parties have less control over their candidates in the US system of government than in parliamentary systems.

Daily Training for June 10th: Lincoln Bucks Tide; Business Leaders Win in California

Perhaps it wasn't "Super Tuesday" but it was a pretty good primary election day on Tuesday--the biggest in this cycle. This NY Times article reviews the results--which included many wins for women.

Daily Training for June 9th: Obama's Oil Spill Emotions

The All Politics Daily Training is one year old today! To celebrate, we've got a fun video of the media going crazy over Obama's lack of emotion over the oil spill.

Daily Training for June 7th: Liz Cheney and Ariana Huffington on This Week

A pretty big fight took place on ABC's This Week on Sunday morning--at least by American standards--between Liz Cheney and Ariana Huffington over who is responsible for the conditions leading up to the BP oil spill. It's a short video, but you might need to watch it two times in order to understand everything.

Daily Training for June 8th: Israel as a Strategic Liability?

Today's Daily Training is an analysis by Anthony H. Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies of US policy with Israel.

Daily Training for June 4th: Tea Party Democrat Struggles To Explain His Candidacy

This video is for everyone who's ever suffered as they've watched their candidate struggle through a speech or question and answer session because this is about the worst performance you could ever expect. In this painfully awkward video, Tim Crawford struggles to explain his own politics and what he stands for. Note is a "tea party" candidate who won a Democratic primary in Indiana so the party base understandably wants to know what makes him a Democrat. He also had a bad luck in that the whole thing was recorded and uploaded to the Huffington Post (doh!) It's been edited so it's hard to tell how bad it actually was in person.

Daily Training for June 3rd: Spain proposes total smoking ban in bars and restaurants

I received this article from the Independent today from an American friend who used to live in Madrid, her comment was "is this possible?"