Updating from yesterday. Even the Clinton Campaign is trying to present the tightening of polling as a reason to contribute to her campaign. She’s actually advertising that her opponent is WINNING based on a single polling data point despite the fact that an average of polling shows her well ahead, especially if you dismiss the … More Even Hillary is trying to take advantage of “Bad” Polling
Regardless of political leanings the headlines this week are full of stories about how Clinton’s lead in the polls has “vanished,” to quote Right Wing mouthpiece Breitbart.com or this Politico story spinning a story about Trump falling “back in love with the polls” after the race tightens back up. We even see Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight … More Let’s talk about Election Polls
I’m generally opposed to flat-out fabrication as a way of generating attention but I’ve got to hand it to whoever created this brilliant bit of viral attention grabbing that had Facebook blowing up all day long with people “checking in” at the Standing Rock protests to “confuse law enforcement” that was allegedly using FB to … More The Standing Rock Check-In Hoax
I’m going to climb way out on a limb here and make a prediction about what the FBI discovers when they dig into the matter of the Abedin email “trove” discovered on Anthony Weiner’s laptop. Huma is reportedly mystified about how thousands of HER emails ended up on HIS laptop. This is pure speculation but … More Prediction about Huma Abedin Emails
Stories like this CNNÂ piece about early voting habits are getting caught in the fallacy of assuming that voting in the presidential election will break along party registration lines. So they’re reporting, for example, that in Arizona 164,000 Democrats have cast early ballots compared to 160,000 Republicans. But that’s almost meaningless, given the rupture in the … More Misleading Coverage of Early Voter Statistics
This is a topic close to my heart. One of my first really difficult jobs in the strategic communications world was designing ways to encourage and support FARC rank-and-file soldiers in Colombia to demobilize. It’s very difficult to bring someone to the point of walking away from not just an ideology but a way of … More How to Create an Exit Ramp for Trump Followers
If you’ve ever watched even a single episode of a reality TV show like Master Chef, America’s Top Model and, yes, The Apprentice you’ve seen the signs that someone is about to get fired or voted off the island. In the jargon of TV production that’s the Loser Edit. What starts with little observed stumbles … More The Presidential “Loser Edit” Has Begun
It’s only a matter of time before Trump fat shames Paul Ryan. Fox News
Former House Speaker and Wrestling Coach Dennis Hastert Reports to Federal Prison It’s been amusing to watch the dance as Republican candidates try to put daylight between themselves and the now-toxic candidacy of Donald Trump. One might imagine it would be easy, in the wake of Trump’s “grab them by the pussy” bombshell video, for … More The REAL Reason Republicans Fear Dumping Trump
It will come as little surprise to anyone who regularly interfaces with reporters that the NYT botched its reporting on the San Bernardino shooting when it reported, initially, that shooter Tashfeen Malik had openly posted pro-Jihad and radical Islamic statements on social media. The original story, reported by Mike Schmidt and Matt Apuzzo, who cover national … More Will the NYT Brass Really Come Down On Anonymous Sourcing?
The Original Spin 