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Phillip Rawls, "GOP claims control of Ala. Senate," The Associated Press • November 3, 2010
Press Register Staff, "Republicans claim majority in Alabama House and Senate for 1st time in 136 years," Mobile Press Register, 2 November 2010
Republican TV ad video, "136 years is long enough"
Matt Okarmus, "[Joe] Hubbard unseats Grimes in District 73," Montgomery Advertiser, November 3, 2010
Teri Sewell first black woman from AL in US House | Biography on Wikipedia | Sewell for Congress | videos
Martha Roby defeats Bobby Bright for US House district 2 | Biography on Wikipedia| MarthaRoby.com| videos
Deborah Barfield Berry, "Roby barely beats Bright," Montgomery Advertiser, November 3, 2010 [includes video of both Bright and Roby, who hugs a campaign aide, D. Cole Muzio, HC class of '11]
Advertiser Editorial, "Bright better choice for Congress," Montgomery Advertiser, October 29, 2010
Robert Bentley wins governor's race | Biography on Wikipedia | RobertBentley2010 | videos
Sebastian Kitchen, "Bentley wins race," Montgomery Advertiser, November 3, 2010
Kay Ivey ... in slim victory for lieutenant governor seat
Luther Strange wins attorney general post
John McMillan wins agriculture commissioner seat
Young Boozer III wins treasurer post
Jo Bonner wins 5th term in U.S. House
Mo Brooks declares victory in US 5th district
Richard Shelby re-elected to U.S. Senate
2010: CNN Politics | Economist | Politico | Real Clear Politics | Time, primaries | USA Today
New York Times 2010: index | Senate | House | Governors | FiveThirtyEight blog | ResultsElection aftermath articles:
Results:Pre-election polls:What did voters react against? Economy, President, Health care bill, Tea party? What types of voters were on each side? Income, education, demographics? How did control of the US House and Senate, and state Governors, shift? New York Times projects US Senate swing to Republicans 6 seats, 51 D - 46 R, 3 November 2010 | Exit Polls [only for voters in 37 states' Senate elections] New York Times project US House | Exit Polls [voters in all House seats] New York Times projects Governors swing to Republicans 9 seats, 14 D - 26 R, 9 undecided, 1 Ind., 3 November 2010 New York Times projects Alabama state results, 3 November 2010 CNN 2010 results projects US House 192 [was 256] D - 243 [was 179] R, forming new majority CNN 2010 results: projects US Senate 51 D - 47 R [37/100 were up for election] "Democrats Favor New Stimulus; Republicans, Healthcare Repeal," Gallup, 3 November 2010 Jennifer Liberto, "Repeal 'Obamacare': GOP will try at least," CNN, 3 November 2010 Associated Press, "Minorities ride GOP wave to historic wins in majority-white areas," 3 November 2010
Pre-election opinion-editorial articlesGallup's Job Creation Index improved to +10 in October, with 30% of U.S. workers saying their employers are hiring and 20% saying theirs are letting workers go. Gallup-Healthways tracking finds more than one in six American adults remain uninsured fo health Frank Newport, Jeffrey M. Jones, and Lydia Saad, "Republicans Appear Poised to Win Big on Tuesday: Lead in generic ballot large enough to give Republicans solid majority control of U.S. House," Gallup.com 1 Nov. 2010 The CNN wire staff, "Is it really that bad? 75 percent say yes," 1 Nov. 2010 [75% agree things are going badly in the country, 52% say unemployment salient issue; deficit 2nd at 28%] Mark Murray, "Poll suggests Dems will face 'hurricane winds'," MSNBC.com, 1 Nov. 2010 | Full text of report, PDF New York Times 2010 index | Senate | House | Governors | FiveThirtyEight blog | Results Jamie Malanowski, "Will Lincoln Prevail?" [living history, 150 years ago] New York Times, 30 October 2010, 2:58 pm New York Times index to Tea Party facts & articles Eleanor Clift, "Keep Dreaming: The GOP hasn’t won yet … What it would take for the Dems to get re–fired up and score a big midterms upset." Op-ed, Newsweek, 25 October 2010 Daniel Stone, Eleanor Clift, Andrew Romano, "Yes, They Can," [what Republican majority will mean for policy] Newsweek, 25 October 2010 Newsweek, "Biggest Misstatements of the Midterms," [Includes 7 minute video capsule by John Groat], with Factcheck.org, 26 Oct. '10 MAUREEN DOWD, "Supremely Bad Judgment, " NY Times, 23 October, 2010 Peter Liberman and David Pizarro, "All Politics Is Olfactory," NY Times 23 Oct. 2010 Andrew Romano, "How Tea Partiers get the Constitution wrong." Newsweek, 20 Oct. '10 Ben Adler, "The Republican 'Pledge to America' looks unlikely to inspire,"Newsweek, 20 Sep. '10 "Why John Boehner could be a good House speaker," Newsweek, 20 Sep. '10 Julian E. Zelizer, "Lessons of Jimmy Carter: Why Obama needs to be a better party leader," Newsweek, 20 Sep. '10 "The myth of the inexperienced Tea Partiers," Newsweek, 20 Sep. '10 Fareed Zakaria, "Don't forget that the bailouts worked," Newsweek, 20 Sep. '10 Robert J. Samuelson, "The trouble with soundbite economics," Newsweek, 20 Sep. '10 Ezra Klein, "The Tea Party is hypocritical on tax cuts," Newsweek, 20 Sep. '10 Lisa Miller, "Hear Them Growl: Sarah Palin says a new crop of conservative women will ‘rise up’ to protect their cubs. But will they?" Newsweek, 27 Sep. '10 Republican Pledge to America, 2010, provisions (slide) FactCheck.org, "FactChecking ‘The Pledge’: Republicans' 'Pledge to America' falls short on some of its facts." 24 Sep. 2010
Election 2008: Results | Blog | Primary election Blog | discussion and debate '08 notes
The Bottom Line on New Election Polls, 10 Sep. '08, ABC, George Stephanopoulos
** ABC News, "Barack Obama Responds on ABC to Bush's State of the Union 2007," fluent and eloquent answer to question from ABC's Charlie Gibson, from ABC News (Video, YouTube) BarackObama.com, "First Obama Political Ad" (Video, YouTube) BarackObama.com, "Barack Obama: My Plans for 2008" only talking head ad, but eloquent (Video, YouTube)
**Legacy of Hope, Unity and Change, (10') blend of Obama, King, Kennedys, created by Clinton supporter Caroline Self, to explain her new support for Obama. Thanks for link to Bryant Isbell, HC PSC alumnus.Homer Simpson tries to vote for Obama '08
** Barely Political, "I Got a Crush ... On Obama (Amber Lee Ettinger, a model, triggers the fad for fan videos, on Video, Youtube) ** Barely Political, "Debate '08: Obama Girl vs Giuliani Girl" follow-up to "crush on Obama," (Video, Youtube) Barely Political, "Obama Girl vs Giuliani Girl: The Trailer" (Video, Youtube) Barely Political, "Obama Girl vs. Joy Behar: Investigative Report" reactions on TV show, The View, (Video, Youtube) unknown, "Joy Behar said WHAT?" (fan's reaction to excerpt of the View, Video, Youtube) * Taryn Southern, "Hot for Hill" spoof of "crush on" series, (Video, YouTube) ForestVirtue, "Georgy Girl", the Bush reply to "crush on" series, uses Seekers' theme to the 1960s film of that title, (Video, Youtube) Barely Political, "Obama Girl vs...McCain Mama?" Glenn Beck on Headline Prime, includes "McCain Mama" spoof, (Video, YouTube) Barely Political, "Obama Girl on Wallstrip!" Amber Lee gives pointers to the Wall Street web program, Wallstrip, on how to boost their viral qualities by gyrating, (Video, YouTube) FoxxyNews, "Ron Paul and Mr. Rogers: The Perfect Ticket!," only talking about crush, no song and dance routines, lame spoof of Fox News, (Video, YouTube)
** Vote Different (Hillary in Big Brother Ad) (Video, YouTube) * Taryn Southern, "Hot for Hill" spoof of "crush on" series, (Video, YouTube) "Hillary Clinton Sings National Anthem " (Video, YouTube) "Hillary Goes Nuts" (School vouchers can't discriminate among religions) (Video, YouTube) "Hillary Clinton in Selma" (post Katrina poverty) (Video, YouTube) "Hillary Clinton adopts a southern drawl, Fox news hatchet job " | " same, in proper context " (Video, YouTube) HillaryClintonHQ, "Hillary Clinton Sopranos Parody" Bill and Hillary in a diner, (Video, YouTube) "Hillary on Hypothetical Questions", Clinton against answering hypothetical questions: Tells CNN's Wolf Blitzer in Democratic Candidates debate (Video, YouTube) FreedomAndDemocacy, "Hillary vs Hillary", spoof debate in cartoon form
Short Arm Guy, "President Bill Clinton Sings John Lennon's Imagine", with Shimon Peres's 80th Birthday, Jewish and Arab children's concert, from Israeli TV, with Clinton obviously unprepared, (Video, YouTube)
John Edwards HQ, "John Edwards, Mom's Pecan Pie," Joe Trippi the consultant, spoofs making and burning pie to old TV show music, Elizabeth makes pitch. See also recipe on web page. Rogerrmjet, "John Edwards Feeling Pretty" Edwards combs hair a little too long before TV show, (Video, YouTube)
** C-SPAN Via locopolitico, "Laura Bush, Desperate Housewife", intervenes amid Bush's speech to WH correspondents' dinner, tells better jokes than he. From C-SPAN. "Laura Bush steals the show at the 2005 White House Correspondents' Dinner, upstaging President Bush as she admits to being a "desperate housewife." A boffo comic performance." Letterman TV show, "BUSH: The 10 most stupid moments of his life" From Letterman via VideoVat.com Mujahideenryder, "Stupid Bush" clips of Bush's flubs on TV WAM250, "Again stupid Bush", more clips of Bush's flubs on TV NBC, via milt5658, "Matt Lauer corners Bush on Torture" from Today Show Kiumars2000, "Stephen Colbert as Bush in WH Correspondents' Dinner" excerpt
EmergencyCheese, "Conversing with Congressman Kucinich", for universal health non-profit care system, intelligent student interviewer on capitol bench.
EmergencyCheese, "Congressman Ron Paul Visits My Dorm Room", intelligent student interviewer, James Kotecki, yes, in dorm room.
* RichardsonForPresident, "You Choose Spotlight: Do you have the next big energy idea?", attempt to interact with audience on YouTube. * RichardsonForPresident, "Bill Richardson's New Ads: Job Interview and Tell Me" clever, slightly cynical, uncommercial approach to ads. RichardsonForPresident, "The Wall", bipartisan approach, more traditional talking to camera.
EmergencyCheese, "Senator Mike Gravel Visits My Dorm Room", intelligent student interviewer, James Kotecki, yes, in dorm room. EmergencyCheese, "Dan Rather!", sage advice from Dan to not be intimidated, in a chance encounter in a studio green room. James Kotecki, "James Kotecki on Fox and Friends, 3-31-07"
Robert Greenwald and BraveNewFilms, "John McCain vs John McCain" (Video, Youtube) McKaThomas, "Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran", quip by McCain in response to question. (Video, Youtube)
RudyGiulianiHQ, "Rudy's 12 Commitments to the American People," [look for strongly conservative thrust pitched to Republican primary voters, from this former liberal democrat and former moderate Republican. How well is he able to transcend the mayoralty and 9/11 to appeal to a national audience?] RudyGiulianiHQ, "Rudy in Jacksonville", speaking to a crowd on fiscal discipline, 5 mins, (Video, Youtube)
Speeches: | **Gov. Sarah Palin, Republican VP nomination acceptance speech, Part 1 (6 mins) **Charlie Gibson Interviews GOP Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin (ABC News, full excerpts, 11-12 Sep. '08) printable transcript of Gibson interviews with Palin, ABC, 11-12 Sep. '08 Full interview, ABC news Experience question excerpt, ABC news "Lipstick on a Pig" from both Obama, McCain and W. Bush, from the View, ABCnews Sarah Palin Revealed CNN Special, 9/13/08 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | CNN Specials, Palin and Biden Revealed, page **Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton (good impressions) on SNL, 13 Sep. '08 Sarah Palin on the job of the VP (44 sec.) The Sarah Palin Church Video Part One (7 mins) (pray for a pipeline) Excerpt: War is God's Plan Interviews about Palin: Tucker Bounds on Palin's Bridge to Nowhere Flip-Flo Campbell Brown of CNN interviews Tucker Bounds on Palin's National Security Experience (4', CNN) Personal views, spoofs, mashups (quality varies): Spoof: Govenor Sarah Palin Competes Miss Alaska (1984) Mashup of publicity stills: Governor Sarah Palin ! : " Lay All Your Love " music video (1'45") Sarah Palin's Daughter Piper Fixes little brother's hair (seconds) Palin Repeats Bridge Lie, Again (seconds) Obama Responds to complaints about "Lipstick on a Pig" (3', excerpt of Fox)
includes excerpts from RNC and DNC conventions over the years Includes fact check on Palin's interview responses to Gibson, 11-12 Sep. '08
Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) Addresses the DNC (32', from C-SPAN) Sen. Barack Obama's full acceptance speech to the DNC national convention, Aug. 2008 Sen. Joe Biden, VP acceptance speech to DNC national convention, Aug. 2008, from C-SPAN (32') (see 15 mins, "That's Not Change, That's More of the Same") Sen. John McCain's full speech to the RNC 55:58 From: CSPAN Cindy McCain's Full Speech at the RNC, 21:18 From: CSPAN Vice Presidential Candidate Gov. Sarah Palin (AK) Full Speech at the RNC, 45:45 From: CSPAN Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) addresses the DNC 27:46 From: CSPAN Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani Full Speech at the RNC 27:46 From: CSPAN
James Kotecki, "James Kotecki on Fox and Friends, 3-31-07", James explains which candidates use YouTube well/poorly and how to improve. Also how his YouTube channel took off, when placed on YouTube's home page. EmergencyCheese, "Congressman Ron Paul Visits My Dorm Room", intelligent student interviewer, James Kotecki, yes, in dorm room. EmergencyCheese, "Senator Mike Gravel Visits My Dorm Room", intelligent student interviewer, James Kotecki, yes, in dorm room. EmergencyCheese, "Dan Rather!", sage advice from Dan to not be intimidated, in a chance encounter in a studio green room.
BraveNewFilms, "The President Won't Fire Him -- but YOU can.", on Attorney General Gonzales (Video, Youtube) ArPolitics, "Part 1 Senator Pryor Calls for AG Gonzales to Resign" | "Part 2" from C-SPAN (Video, YouTube) Attorney General Gonzales, testimony to Congress, "George Washington Authorized Electronic Surveillance" (Video, YouTube)
Pitch by Anderson Cooper, "It's Your Country and Your Presidential Debate" for videos of questions for 23 July 07 debate FreedomAndDemocacy, "Hillary vs Hillary" spoof debate in cartoon form
Magnolia Pictures, "Why is Iraq in Chaos? NO END IN SIGHT Learn the Truth! 7/27" Trailer, opens 7/27 www.noendinsightmovie.com. "The first film of its kind to chronicle the reasons behind Iraq's descent into guerilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy, NO END IN SIGHT is a jaw-dropping, insider's tale of wholesale incompetence, recklessness and venality." Sundance festival documentary winner.
CNN, AL Gore, (2000). APTV (local PBS station) listings (uses different dates than PBS national broadcasts) PBS Frontline, The Choice, Series, 2008, via Facebook, PBS Hi-res streaming, YouTube/PBS, or iTunes free download. (120 mins, both major candidates). This is the finest documentary series on the presidential candidates each four years. Shown on APTV three times in October & November. PBS Frontline, The Choice series, 2004 (homework, resource) PBS, Chicago Democratic Convention '68 (protesters) PBS, The Candidates series (homework, term paper resource) PBS, The Challengers series (homework, term paper resource) The War Room, following the Clinton '92 campaign staff in their unusually open strategy meetings. documentaries and campaign footage, as time permits. Recommended Michael Moore, Fahrenheit 9/11, humorous (and outrageous) polemic.
NY Times videos index about Washington Politics NY Times videos index of TV spots in 2006 elections Video ads by Democrats, New York Times
BBC world service, radio podcasts index -- includes US candidates' profiles John McCain profile Barack Obama profile
Deval Patrick (D-MA) & Sen. Obama at Rally, 2007 (indicates rock star status of Obama months before the 2008 primaries)
Laurie Goodstein, "Fewer see GOP as `friendly to religion'", Birmingham News, 5 Sep. '06, New York Times News Service, via AL.com Robert Pear, "The Ad Campaign: Is the Incumbent Too Close to Bush?", NY Times, 17 Sep. '06, with video of Nancy Johnson's CT 5th race [print] [page] Campaigns & Elections magazine, "Filling the War Chest." [brief fundraising manual] Green, "Karl Rove in a Corner," excerpt from Atlantic Monthly about Rove's strategy for Perry Hooper, '94, in AL.
Online TX Redistricting Simulation (Wadsworth) Online Political Quotes Game (Wadsworth) Match your policy choices to a (surprising) candidate for president in 2008
Hillary Clinton for President '08, animated cartoon, '06 (in JibJab style) JibJab election 'Toons. Web fun: Drag images '04: Kerry; Edwards; Bush; Cheney. The Four Parachutes joke [PPS] (no comment intended!)
2006 Election Notes.
Election '06 Results: Maps and Charts | Analysis | Deval Patrick (D-MA) & Sen. Obama at Rally New York Times Interactive Exit Poll graphs, HR voting by party and by demographic groups. New York Times Results Maps. AL interactive map of results by county, AP via Mgmy Advertiser. Thomson's midterm election guide (includes analysis plus state by state maps of close races) Vote-Smart.org:AL legislature's Key Votes | AL Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R), HC alumna. HC Democrats '06 Facebook Group
2006 NY Times Election Guide: (may need to register)
Senate Races map, NY Times [Also click Governors, then Alabama] Gov. Riley, Profile, NY Times | BobRileyforGovernor.com, Lucy Baxley, Profile, NY Times | www.lucybaxley.com, NY Times Politics Navigator, an excellent source by Rich Meislin, of sites for paper research. (may need to register) New York Times Poll Watch index
Gallup Poll, 8 Sep. '06, on salient issues [after commercial] Thomson's midterm election '06 guide (analysis & state maps of close races) Election 'toons and humor, '06 JibJab 'Toons. Alabama '06 home pages and videos Bob Riley for Governor Gov. Riley, Profile, NY Times Lucy Baxley for Governor (includes TV spot) Lucy Baxley, Profile, NY Times Luther Strange for Lt. Governor Campaign '06 videos NY Times videos index of Washington Politics [Online video] NY Times videos index of TV spots in 2006 elections [Online video] Campaign '06 articles Howard Fineman and Holly Bailey, "The Democratic Entourage: Can Rahm Emanuel deliver the House? Newsweek, 17 Sep. '06. Robert Pear, "The Ad Campaign: Is the Incumbent Too Close to Bush?", NY Times, 17 Sep. '06, with video of Nancy Johnson's CT 5th race [print] [page] Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Chris Cillizza, "'Mortgage Moms' May Star in Midterm Vote: With Wages Stagnant and Debt Growing, Democrats See an Opportunity,"Washington Post Dan Balz and David S. Broder, "More GOP Districts Counted as Vulnerable: Number Doubled Over the Summer," Washington Post Paul Bedard, "'Security moms' still on board, Republicans say," David E. Kaplan, "Iraqi public opinion: bad news and good," US News Election '04: Results summary | Analysis by Cindy Barnes Hayden '99 | Kerry and Bush States by income, and by IQ (!) Results and polls: ABC News, YouGov and Pew Center tables, Sep. '04 Polls Summaries, Sep. | June '04 Polls | Election '04 Quotes | Drag images '04: Kerry; Edwards; Bush; Cheney. Greenblatt's NYT Op-Ed piece, 2004, on Shakespeare's Brutus and Mark Anthony, and the Bush-Kerry debate. Pew global attitudes survey, 2005, on Islamist terrorism. [Chart and summary by Dr. Lewis]
JibJab 'Toons. NY Times Calendar '04 | NY Times Campaign Index, '04 | HMCo. links http://www.electoral-vote.com/US map by poll data, updated frequently during 2004 campaign. http://www.electoral-vote.com/states/alabama.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/results.htm '04 US map by States. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/vote2004/countymap.htm '04 US map by Counties. 2000 County Map: over-representation of rural conservatism, and hence Bush voters. ABC News, YouGov and Pew Center tables, Sep. '04 Online Political Quotes Game (Wadsworth) Online TX Redistricting Simulation (Wadsworth) Avi Rubin, "Perils of Electronic Voting", San Jose Mercury News, August 8, 2004. (Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute) or: http://www.jhu.edu/news_info/jhupdate/vote.html The Four Parachutes joke [PPS] (from internet -- no endorsement intended!)
Top of Page2010 general election Bobby Bright v Martha Roby, US House, AL 02, campaign 2010 Bright4Congress2010, Bobby Bright: "A True Conservative" 26 Oct. 2010 Bright4congress2010, "More True Numbers about Bobby Bright ", 26 Oct. 2010 TheRealMarthaRoby, Martha Roby Unsure about Living in Alabama (radio interview clip) 21 Oct. 2010 TheRealMarthaRoby, "Martha Roby [replies to] Fair Tax Question", (panel speech) 21 Oct. 2010 DCCC, "Martha Roby: The Dark Side of Politics," [for Bright] 24 Sep. 2010 DCCC, "Martha Roby: Cut the Department of Education," panel question response to which dept. to cut, in Coffee County, 27 Sep. 2010 NRCC, "Not so Bright," 25 Sep. 2010 NRCC, "Bobby's Record on Economy not so Bright," 23 Oct. 2010 NRCC, "AL-02 Ad: Bobby Bright - No on Repeal [of Health Care]," 10 May 2010 Martha Roby for Congress "Door" 17 May 2010 Martha Roby, "Martha Roby on Fox and Friends," 16 July 2010 Martha Roby, "Martha Roby Roadmap" (first ad of campaign), 27 Sep. 2010 Martha Roby, ""He Won't", TV ad, 10 Oct. 2010 NRCC, "Bobby Bright Should Be The First To Go," TV ad, 12 Sep. 2010 2010 Tea Party issues Sarah Palin AK PAC, supporting Tea Party candidates, 19 Sep. 2010 Sarah Palin AK PAC, "Mama Grizzlies," supporting women Tea Party candidates, 23 June 2010 Emily's List, "Sarah Doesn't Speak for Me," (counter-argument) 16 August 2010 Fox News Channel, Inside Look at Tea Party Movement, 25 Oct. 2010 (9') Al Jazeera English channel, Tea Party strong in Obama's home state, 28 Oct. 2010 Al Jazeera English channel, US Republicans seek 'Tea Party' alliances, 6 Feb. 2010 The Rachel Maddow Show: Insani-Tea: Conservatives Rally Around "Teabagging" (April 2009). (Argues Fox News is promoting the supposedly grass roots movement.) The Young Turks, Tea Bag Parties Show the Scary Side of the US The Young Turks, Sharron Angle, God vs Government, and 2d amendment rights, from The Young Turks, 6 Facts On Radical Tea Party Candidate Sharron Angle Of NV Harry Reid campaign TV ad, "Pathological Sharron Angle Lies" True Politician: Sharron Angle Lies (her appearance on Fox News contrasts with other statements) Christine O'Donnell, US Senate, DE The Year's Best Viral Campaign Ad? [2010 primaries] Christine O'Donnell's 90's MTV Anti-Masturbation Campaign, 14 Sep. 2010 Christine O'Donnell Circa 1997: AIDS Gets Too Much Gov't Money ($8 Bn), C-SPAN, 15 Sep. 2010 Christine O'Donnell's Witchcraft Past? [cancelled interviews] CBS news online, 19 Sep. 2010* Christine O'Donnell TV ad, I'm not a witch ... I'm you. 4 Oct. 2010 SNL Parodies Christine O'Donnell's "I'm Not A Witch" Ad, 10 Oct. 2010 Christine O'Donnell TV ad against Chris Coons "Superhero, Rubber Stamp Man" Christine4Senate.com, Christine2010.com, 21 October 2010 2008 Gov. Sarah Palin, R-VP candidate Gov. Sarah Palin doesn't know what the Vice President does, interview on CNBC, 29 Aug. 2010 Gov. Sarah Palin Can't Name a Newspaper She Reads, interview with Katie Couric, NBC, 30 Sep. 2008 Couric Stumps Palin With Supreme Court Question, CBS, 1 Oct. 2008 Sarah Palin on Abortion and Evolution, 20 Sep. 2008 Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits (mashup) from 2008, from Couric CBS and Gipson ABC interviews, 1 Oct. 2008 Fox News: McCain campaign concerned Palin ignorant, didn't know Africa was a continent, Fox, 5 Nov. 2008 (post election) Sarah Palin Interview (Katie Couric, CBS) (9') 25 Sep. 2008 2004 2000 Bush ad against Al Gore 2000 | George W. Bush 2000 Campaign Ad 2000
Bush 2000 Ad on Medicare Drug plan (uses subliminal message "Rats" near end)
"Ocean" Al Gore 2000 TV ad 20001996 1992 1988 The infamous Willie Horton ad, by an 'independent' pro-Bush group, against Gov. Mike Dukakis for President, '88.1984 Ronald Reagan TV Ad: "Its morning in America again" ('84)
Ronald Reagan TV Ad: "The Bear"
Ronald Reagan TV Ad: "Train" ('84)
Ronald Reagan TV Ad: "World leaders" ('84)
Ronald Reagan TV Ad: "Foreign Policy" ('84)
Ronald Reagan TV Ad: "Reaganomics" ('84)
Ronald Reagan TV Ad: "Inflation" ('84)
Walter Mondale TV Ad: "More" ('84)
Walter Mondale 1984; Failure ('84)
Walter Mondale TV Ad: "Fight" ('84)1980 1976 1972 1968 1964 The infamous "Ice cream ad for Lyndon Johnson '64
The infamous "Daisy" ad for Lyndon Johnson '64, against Sen. Barry Goldwater for President, '64. (Only shown once by paid media, it has been repeated many times on free media.)
Anti-KKK ad for Lyndon Johnson '64
Anti-poverty ad for Lyndon Johnson '641960 1956 1952
Alabama 2010 Elections A Yahoo News blog "This is Alabama; we Speak English," about Tim James (R) ad for Governor, primary, spring 2010 [came third] Alabama 2008 Election sites
- AL 2008 in NJ Almanac of American Politics, via HC Library
- Preparation for Bright-Love Debate at HC, 22 Oct. 2008, for the Second Congressional District of AL:
- HC political science students watch third presidential debate, Ashley Hopkinson, "Collegians Bring Critical Eye to Debate," 15 Oct. '08, in Montgomery Advertiser [Local]
- Bright and Love campaign video links (TV ads; Tube moments) on Sourcewatch.org
- 2nd district race ranking and background from CQ Politics
- Alabama District 2 race from OurCampaigns.org
- Campaign contributions from OpenSecrets.org
- Love (R) vs Bright (D) graph of collected poll results from Pollster.com [scanty data, varies]
- 2nd district map, on Wikipedia (and see below)
(Map is in public domain, produced by federal government.)- Bobby Bright
- Bobby Bright for Congress
- Bobby Bright on CongressPedia
- TV ads:
- Introductory spot: upbringing, tax cuts, conservative values and pro-life
- Pledge for clean campaign; as own man; momma raised me right
- Ad 3: Truck to get attention of Washington; 3 balanced budgets as mayor son in uniform
- Politicians behave like childrens
- Casino Money
- DCCC ads against Love
- DCCC: Jay Love, He Won't Stand up for us (AL-02) (health care of employees)
- DCCC: Who's backing Jay Love? Sheldon Adelson -- a Las Vegas casino magnate and America's biggest investor in Communist China is the prime benefactor to the group supporting Jay Love.
- DCCC: Jay Love: not the man he says he is.
- YouTube moments
- Mash-up: Bobby Bright Answers Jay Love attacks
- Bobby Bright for Congress 2008, home page (video splash)
- Never Forgotten and other TV spots (30" each)
- Bright contrasts his approach with Love's partisan approach, via Mgmy Advertiser
- Bobby Bright featured in church revival, The Call, Alabama, 5 April 2008
- Jay Love
- Jay Love for Congress
- Jay Love on CongressPedia
- Jay Love on VoteSmart.org (Bio plus key votes, speeches)
- Jay Love for Congress 2008, home page, '08 | multimedia | Broken Record TV spot | Christian Conservative change, TV spot, Sep. '08
- Jay Love speech to Republican convention, Sep '08 (2') | Differences, Jay Love TV spot, Sep. '08 (34")
- TV ads
- Love Story (introductory ad)
- Liberal Bobby's Taxes raised unemployment 50% in Montgomery
- Conservative, Christian change relaunched
- The Border is Broken (against illegal immigration)
- Real Differences: never sell out to liberals
- Fort Rucker: fight military cuts
- Jay Love features Palin
- Primary ad against Harri Anne Smith: she raised taxes
- NRCC ads against Bright
- NRCC: Shine a Light on Bobby Bright; sued for violation of Sunshine Act; finds from Liberals
- YouTube moments
- Republican National Convention speech, 2008: sanctity of life, gun ownership, low taxes
- Jay Love visits wiregrass farmers, from WDHN TV coverage
- Bobby Bright supports Barack Obama, at AUM Business Breakfast
- Mike Rogers for Congress 2008 | Multimedia index
- Josh Segall for Congress '08, home page | First TV spot, 2 Sep. '08 -- plus links to YouTube ads
Alabama Politics Rosa Parks Rosa Parks interview (old black and white TV), brief clip, 1950s | Rosa Parks story (2 mins) Speaking of Rosa Parks (home video with music, shot around Montgomery) Articles & notes:
Seminars in Law, PSC 371BAL 2008 in NJ Almanac of American Politics, via HC Library Election '06 links Election '06 Results: Maps and Charts | Analysis | Deval Patrick (D-MA) & Sen. Obama at Rally Map of Alabama's Federal Districts, and List of Delegates to the Congress AL in NJ Almanac of American Politics Vote-Smart.org: AL legislature's Key Votes | AL Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin (R), HC alumna. "Did Ex-Alabama Governor Get a Raw Deal?" CBS, 60 minutes, shown 24 Feb. '08 "Birmingham Settles federal suit: will no longer automatically jail indigents," B'ham News, 25 Feb. '08 Green, "Karl Rove in a Corner," excerpt from Atlantic Monthly about Rove's strategy for Perry Hooper, '94, in AL. Key, Alabama | Murray, "AL Tax Code" (WSJ) Alabama Politics & Government research links AL Administration in Governing report Walters, "Raising Alabama," Governing Oct 2000. George Wallace, Settin' Woods on Fire, video, description and Index | V.O. Key's chapter outline, "Alabama". Hubbert, "Unearmarking Proposal Dangerously Unsound". Jubera, "Nightmare Alabama bias suit [Reynolds]...". Murray, "Morality of AL Tax-Code" (WSJ) Permaloff & Grafton, Political Power in AL (1995): Ch.1: "Lags and Gaps in Recent AL History." Ch.11: "... The More They Stay the Same." PBS Video, "Conscience of a Congressman" (Carl Elliott) Green, "Karl Rove in a Corner". Articles on Tax Reform, 2003. SLIDES. Articles on Ten Commandments monument, 2003. Daily digest of Alabama's political news, list. Disputed voting data, 2002, Baldwin County, table. Economist, Obituary of Judge Frank Johnson. Parties' recognition threshold bill, 2003. Constitution of 1901, "It's a Thick Book." Humorous documentary, seek on Google video. Trailer for Davis Guggenheim /Al Gore, Global warming documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth Sources: Almanac of Amer. Politics, "AL", 2006. AL Legislature: search by your Zip code. AL House. AL Senate. Legislature: Visitor's Guide. Map (East is up). PSC 212 AL Politics in Course Timetable. Robin's Children's page. Voting info: Sec. of State of Alabama. Voter turnout records. Voter ID requirements. www.allpolitics.com.
Jan Crawford Greenburg (ABC News), the Stallworth lecturer, 7:30 pm on 23 Sep. 2008. Her lively new book, Supreme Conflict, (2007) argues that W. Bush has been more successful than other recent Republican presidents, in casting the Supreme Court in a conservative direction. Speaker notes. New York Times review (favorable, with some gaps such as hard data and topics such as presidential power) Amazon.com: best customer reviews: Favorable | Critical Suggestions of books on criminal law: Israel & LaFave, Criminal Procedure in a Nutshell [Amazon page] Israel & LaFave, Criminal Procedure & the Constitution, American Casebook series [Amazon page] Russell & Weaver, Principles of Criminal Procedure [Amazon page] Some suggestions for your preparation for law school. These brief, inexpensive, introductory law textbooks are very well reviewed: Lief Carter and Thomas Burke's Reason in Law (7th edition), [Amazon reviews] Moliterno & Lederer, An Introduction to Law, Law Study, and the Lawyer's Role (Very readable) [Carolina Academic publisher's page], [Amazon reviews] More suggestions for pre-law candidates. The following texts also have excellent reviews, and may be valuable if you desire a preview of law school material. Jay Feinman, Law 101: Everything You Need to Know About the American Legal System [Oxford UP, US, publisher's page], [Amazon reviews] M. Neil Browne and Stuart M. Keeley, Asking the Right Questions, A Guide to Critical Thinking, 8th Ed., Prentice Hall publisher (available from Barnes and Noble; and Amazon) Bahrych and Rombauer, Legal writing in A Nutshell, Third Ed., West Publishing, and west.thomson.com The Blue Book, a Uniform System of Citation, 18th Ed., Harvard Law Review Association (publisher) and at www.legalbluebook.com. Edward H. Levi, An Introduction to Legal Reasoning, phoenix books, pb, [Amazon Reviews]. Law school applications: NAPLA Law School Locator grid -- with my GPA and LSAT score, which law school should I apply to? NAPLA pre law resources Other resources: The textbooks will likely be supplemented by briefs, judicial decisions, and real world examples such as search warrants. Most judicial decisions can be found online in databases at findlaw.com; leading constitutional law cases at oyez.nwu.edu; or at cornell.edu. The library audiovisual collection includes "May it Please the Court", a collection of audiotapes of oral argument before the US Supreme Court. These can also be heard online at Oyez.nwu.edu. Additional legal research may be conducted via the AL Supreme Court library (both in hardcopy and via LegalTrak database) on Dexter Ave (9 mins'. drive) and the Lexis database (at ASU, 2 mins'. drive.)
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