Research Catalog

Title

Electing the president, 2008 : the insiders' view / edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson.

Publication

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2009.

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Additional Authors

Jamieson, Kathleen Hall.

Description

224 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm. +

Summary

"Just weeks after the November 2008 election, the Annenberg Public Policy Center's Kathleen Hall Jamieson and FactCheck.org's Brooks Jackson gathered top strategists and consultants for postelection analysis. Nicolle Wallace, Ambassador Mark Wallace, Jon Carson, Steve Schmidt, Bill McInturff, and Chris Mottola from the McCain Palin camp met with David Plouffe, David Axelrod, Joel Benenson, Jim Margolis, and Anita Dunn, their counterparts from the Obama Biden camp to share their insights into one of the most unusual presidential elections in American history. Representatives of the Democratic and Republican National Committees and the major independent expenditure groups did the same. In the resulting book,Electing the President, 2008, the consultants who managed the 2008 presidential campaign retrace the decisions that shaped the historic presidential election. Like Electing the President, 2000 and Electing the President, 2004, this work permits readers to eavesdrop on the first cross campaign discussion that occurred in the nation after Election Day. These political experts assess the importance of new factors ranging from campaign spending to the performance of the press corps, from the effect of the Internet on news cycles to the influence of Tina Fey. Democratic and Republican insiders explain the strategies behind the debates and advertising, reveal what their internal polls showed, and share what they did well and poorly in their efforts to elect the forty fourth president of the United States. In addition to insider commentary,Electing the President, 2008 presents political communications and strategy researchers with an election timeline and polling data from the National Annenberg Election Survey. This book offers a ringside seat to what may prove to be the most pivotal political contest for a long time to come. An included DVD features selected video of the proceedings"--Back cover.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

2008 Annenberg election debriefing.

Subject

• 2008
• Presidents > United States > Election > 2008
• Political campaigns > United States > Case studies

Genre/Form

• DVD-Video discs.
• Documentary films.
• Nonfiction films
• Case studies
• Electronic books
• Documentary films

Note

• Includes index.
• Accompanying disc titled "2008 Annenberg election debriefing", includes an edited video digest of two days of presentations by those responsible for the campaign held in Dec. 2008 by the Annenberg Public Policy Center and FactCheck.org.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

System Details (note)

• DVD, NTSC.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The National Annenberg Election Survey -- The vice presidential campaign -- Campaign management and field operations -- Campaign organization and strategy -- The role of polling -- Advertising -- The campaign and the press -- Political party panel -- Democratic/liberal panel -- Republican/conservative panel.

ISBN

9780812220964 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2009017225

OCLC

• 320621669
• SCSB-11105057

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library