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Steele preferred Palin to Pawlenty on McCain’s 2008 presidential ticket

By Chris Steller | 04.20.09 | 7:29 am

steele-palin-sequence2Michael Steele, the current chairman of the Republican National Committee, says he preferred Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty as the party’s nominee for vice president last year. He didn’t say who he likes for president…

‘Parks and Recreation’ provides what local governments desperately need: lampooning

By Chris Steller | 03.31.09 | 7:30 am

parks-and-rec-websiteA new network TV comedy, NBC’s “Parks and Recreation,” premieres Thursday, April 9. Fans of the show’s star, Amy Poehler (late of “Saturday Night Live”), or of another NBC series, “The Office” (off of which “Parks and Recreation” is…

RNC host committee’s financials say it all — with flowers

By Chris Steller | 10.16.08 | 6:18 pm

Found, in the Republican National Convention Minneapolis St. Paul Host Committee’s filings with the Federal Election Commission over the last few days: big corporate donations (Target, Best Buy and UnitedHealth each gave more than $1 million) and a sizable sum left over unused ($4.7 million). Together with analyses of donors’ lobbying activities, they tell a tale about the costs and benefits of throwing a party for the national Republican Party.

Lost amid the news accounts and watchdog reports: some of the lesser line items that suggest their own story lines. Here are a few, after the jump.

The day the earth did not stand still: Updates post-Indiana and North Carolina

By Steve Perry | 05.07.08 | 11:33 am

Editor’s note: The plates are shifting under both Democratic presidential campaigns today, making this potentially the most pivotal news cycle since very early in the race. So we’ve opened this item to filter some of the more interesting…

Video: The post-primary speeches

By Steve Perry | 05.07.08 | 10:37 am

Both post-primary speeches were interesting this time around–Obama’s for tactical and rhetorical reasons, Clinton’s for its unfolding psychodrama. As I said in the previous post, watch Bill.

Barack Obama in North Carolina (10:38)

Hillary Clinton in Indiana, part

Indigent in Indianapolis: Hillary’s fate is up to Obama now

By Steve Perry | 05.07.08 | 9:36 am

You could learn everything you needed to know about the suddenly transformed circumstances of the Clinton campaign from the face of Bill as he grimaced and fidgeted at Hillary’s side during her post-primary speech in Indianapolis last…

Campaign ads: Another primary week, another pair of 11th-hour attack ads

By Steve Perry | 05.06.08 | 1:58 pm

In what has become an obligatory bit of choreography on the eve of a primary, the Clinton campaign on Monday released a new attack ad going after Barack Obama’s opposition to a gas-tax holiday. The Obama campaign fired right back…