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Legacy Media Underreports Crowds at McCain/Palin Appearances
Ace of Spades HQ — Legacy Media Underreports Crowds at McCain/Palin Appearances The Anchoress has come roaring out of her online retreat with wall-to-wall political coverage. I think the Palin pick in particular re-energized her. Now she's talking about the Daily Kos Media's attempts to sway this election ...

Carol Platt Liebau: Feting One of Their Own
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A look back at the ads of the campaign: lots of new, some of the same
Top of the Ticket — Political advertisements are more than just commercials, they’re artillery. And they’ve played a key role in driving the news cycle and shaping the narratives –- and even the vocabulary -– of this presidential race. Now, as election day looms, and as Barack Obama and John McCain's campaigns unfurl increasingly negative ads at an increasingly rapid pace, the Ticket wondered: Is this normal? So we turned to David Schwartz, a campaign commercial expert and the Chief Curator of the Museum of the Moving Image. Schwartz, who is the brain behind The Living Room Candidate, an online archive of ...

Ticket Replay: A look back at the McCain and Obama campaigns' ads
Top of the Ticket — This weekend The Ticket is republishing some items from the past 2007-08 political season. This one, a retrospective analysis of the campaigns' television ads, originally appeared in this space on Oct. 25, 2008: Political advertisements are more than just commercials, they’re artillery. And they’ve played a key role in driving the news cycle and shaping the narratives –- and even the vocabulary -– of this presidential race. Now, as election day looms, and as Barack Obama and John McCain's campaigns unfurl increasingly negative ads at an increasingly rapid pace, the Ticket wondered: Is this ...

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