Little Ms. Purple
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Little Ms. Purple: Category Archive for Political strategies

Reassurance vs. Cross Pressure political strategies

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/27/2008 9:04 AM | Add Comment

Should McCain joke about his mother's speeding?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/26/2008 9:27 AM | Add Comment

A Republican Senator running TOWARDS Senator Obama...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/25/2008 8:15 AM | Add Comment

From Tony Schwartz's Daisy ad to 527's...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/24/2008 11:17 AM | Add Comment

527's and their strategy in the Internet age & 24/7 news cycle

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/24/2008 9:32 AM | Add Comment

A step in the right direction for Hagel as Obama's VP...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/21/2008 10:43 AM | Add Comment

The "Purple" way forward

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/19/2008 4:02 PM | Add Comment

Obama's first general election TV ad

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/19/2008 1:05 PM | Add Comment

Obama's big bet...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/19/2008 8:41 AM | Add Comment

Two faced McCain when it comes to Global Warming

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/17/2008 1:46 PM | Add Comment

What have you done with the real Joe Lieberman?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/11/2008 9:27 AM | Add Comment

Phase II Report on Iraq pre-war intelligence and how it was used by Bush 2.0

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/5/2008 9:08 AM | Add Comment

To choose or not to choose...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/4/2008 9:15 AM | Add Comment

Bush 2.0 message management

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/2/2008 1:54 PM | Add Comment

Douglas Feith should get a clue

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/27/2008 12:11 PM | Add Comment

Bush 2.0 playing word games with torture

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/21/2008 2:26 PM | Add Comment

The President's interview that has the White House in a tizzy

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/20/2008 9:52 AM | Add Comment

The man who brought down Karl Rove

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/19/2008 11:47 AM | Add Comment

How can you square these two?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/15/2008 10:54 AM | Add Comment

Bush 2.0 gives up golf...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/14/2008 10:41 AM | Add Comment

Why Obama's voter registration drive matters

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/12/2008 2:48 PM | Add Comment

Lieberman too smears Obama with Hamas claim

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/12/2008 9:29 AM | Add Comment

A stretch...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/9/2008 9:17 AM | Add Comment

And now it begins... Clinton's racial wedge is her reason for staying in...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/8/2008 11:58 AM | Add Comment

Goodnight sweetheart, well, it's time to go...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/7/2008 10:42 AM | Add Comment

McCain and Clinton dancin' hand and hand for the gas tax holiday

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/6/2008 9:14 AM | Add Comment

Obama counters Clinton with TV ad

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/5/2008 4:48 PM | Add Comment

Obama's primary strategy

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/5/2008 10:28 AM | Add Comment

Another example of Bush 2.0 message management

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/5/2008 9:19 AM | Add Comment

Read how Rumsfeld covered his rear

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/2/2008 9:45 AM | Add Comment

I'm not big on conspiracy theories but...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 5/1/2008 2:32 PM | Add Comment

Rev. Wright blows up and Obama must deal with it...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/29/2008 1:36 PM | Add Comment

BREAKING: Clinton is push polling Obama...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/25/2008 11:59 AM | Add Comment

Senator McCain and tax cuts

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/25/2008 9:34 AM | Add Comment

Rove continues to feel left out

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/24/2008 11:40 AM | Add Comment

Another ugly example of Bush 2.0 message control

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/23/2008 12:21 PM | Add Comment

One of Bush 1.0's Treasury Dept. economists comments on taxes

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/22/2008 3:06 PM | Add Comment

In Bush 2.0 world, message control is THE most important tactic

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/21/2008 1:58 PM | Add Comment

Clinton vs. Obama ad wars escalating before PA voting tomorrow

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/21/2008 10:46 AM | Add Comment

McCain goes negative with Obama in fundraising letter

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/18/2008 3:36 PM | Add Comment

Would renaming "taxes" "dues" help?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/16/2008 2:39 PM | Add Comment

Now Bush 2.0 wants to stop greenhouse gas emission?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/16/2008 11:06 AM | Add Comment

Confronting the issue without mentioning the issue

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/14/2008 10:41 AM | Add Comment

Does VP Cheney really believe himself?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/11/2008 1:27 PM | Add Comment

Six more months...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/10/2008 9:03 AM | Add Comment

The Internet overtakes politics as usual

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/1/2008 1:44 PM | Add Comment

Two of McCain's strategists tell it like it is...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/27/2008 10:02 AM | Add Comment

McCain agrees with Osama bin Laden

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/25/2008 10:37 AM | Add Comment

A note to Senator Obama

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/23/2008 3:28 AM | Add Comment

Former Republican strategist colleagues salivating over...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/19/2008 9:11 AM | Add Comment

A political strategy taken to another level from the New Governor of NY

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/19/2008 8:19 AM | Add Comment

How does Bush 2.0 get it's point across?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/18/2008 10:14 AM | Add Comment

Spitzer's demise wasn't so cut and dry...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/17/2008 9:54 AM | Add Comment

Senator Obama's "sit down" with the Chicago Tribune...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/16/2008 11:43 AM | Add Comment

It's Friday evening and Obama's takin' out the trash...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/15/2008 11:30 AM | Add Comment

Senator Obama tries to put Rezko behind him once and for all.

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/15/2008 9:58 AM | Add Comment

When a candidate is grasping at straws...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/13/2008 12:51 PM | Add Comment

Can we finally put the Bush 2.0 talking point...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/11/2008 10:06 AM | Add Comment

How can you square...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/10/2008 9:28 AM | Add Comment

David Brooks, I disagree...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/8/2008 9:26 AM | Add Comment

Two links...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/7/2008 2:04 PM | Add Comment

A new level of nastiness...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/6/2008 12:35 PM | Add Comment

The real reason for Bush 2.0's insistence on telecom immunity...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/3/2008 12:53 PM | Add Comment

Trying to walk a tight rope...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/3/2008 11:55 AM | Add Comment

Evangelical Democrats

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/28/2008 1:01 PM | Add Comment

I just don't get it...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/25/2008 2:50 PM | Add Comment

Does Bush 2.0 control the TV stations as well?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/25/2008 1:46 PM | Add Comment

The Bush 2.0 White House again uses...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/24/2008 12:03 PM | Add Comment

What would've been a winning Clinton strategy?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/24/2008 9:44 AM | Add Comment

Ah, the memories...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/22/2008 2:58 PM | Add Comment

Bad news day for Senator McCain

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/21/2008 12:22 PM | Add Comment

It's sad for me to watch the "Straight Talk Express"...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/14/2008 1:15 PM | Add Comment

Are you scared yet?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/13/2008 2:03 PM | Add Comment

If I hear "My Friends..." one more time...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/1/2008 4:19 PM | Add Comment

McCain the Democrat?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 2/1/2008 10:17 AM | Add Comment

Karl Rove's new rules...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/31/2008 12:31 PM | Add Comment

Another signing statement for the books...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/31/2008 12:02 AM | Add Comment

Grassroots Political strategies...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/30/2008 1:04 PM | Add Comment

The spin we're in...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/29/2008 10:28 PM | Add Comment

Amen.

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/25/2008 8:08 PM | Add Comment

Setting the record straight about Obama and Rezko

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/25/2008 12:28 PM | Add Comment

Not a huge fan of E.J. Dionne Jr.'s...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/25/2008 11:08 AM | Add Comment

The selling of the Iraq war SCOREBOARD!

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/23/2008 12:01 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Being "Vetted"

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/17/2008 2:35 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

The effects of the 2004 swift boating of Kerry...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/16/2008 11:42 AM | Add Comment

McCain, South Carolina &...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/16/2008 10:38 AM | Add Comment

Smear campaigns

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/15/2008 2:57 PM | Add Comment

Getting desperate?

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/8/2008 1:45 PM | Add Comment

Various articles from today...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/7/2008 3:17 PM | Add Comment

Iraq part II... Iran...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 12/10/2007 11:50 AM | Add Comment

Parsing...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 8/12/2007 12:04 AM | Add Comment

Opposition research...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 7/12/2006 11:53 PM | Add Comment

"Take the trash out on Friday evenings..."

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 6/6/2006 11:54 PM | Add Comment

Frame the issues in extremes

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 4/17/2006 12:38 AM | Add Comment

Politics IS confusing AND complicated...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 12/14/2005 12:27 AM | Add Comment

Get out in front of "IT"!

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 3/9/2005 12:22 AM | Add Comment

Soften the ground...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 1/22/2005 12:24 AM | Add Comment

Anonymous sourcing with reporters.

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 9/17/2004 11:49 PM | Add Comment

"Anything to win" without any "finger prints"...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 8/16/2004 11:55 PM | Add Comment

Wedge issues...

Posted by Little Ms Purple at 8/2/2004 3:48 PM | Add Comment
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