Exciting Internship and Job Opportunties for Swatties

Eva Barboni, a Swarthmore Alumna, has sent us descriptions for an internship position and a job opening with Joe Trippi and Associates.  Joe Trippi was the campaign manager on such groundbreaking campaigns as Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign and John Edwards’ 2008 presidential campaign.  The position descriptions follow:
Intern:
Come work for veteran political strategist Joe Trippi [...]

A Summary of the Ad Race

The New York Times offers a great tool to compare the advertising spending, by media market, of different 527s, the candidates, and their parties.  It even lets you view the individual ads they’ve released.  Now that’s cool.
Just think, I’d never have known what Barack thinks about Deuteronomy, Leviticus, and the Sermon on the Mount, if [...]

Biden won.

Well, according to the Poll gurus at 538, citing multiple polls, Biden seems to have won.
10:06 CDT: [Nate] The CBS poll of undecideds had Biden winning the debate 46-21, with 33 percent calling it a tie. But few votes were moved as as result. Among the undecideds, 18 percent committed to Obama, and 10 percent [...]

Palin’s winning…

Could Palin actually win this thing?  She’s connecting with voters, she’s much more personal, she’s got some pretty good points actually (granted they’re all bullshit, but they sound good).  Heck, she just got away with calling McCain the candidate of change and Obama the candidate of old politics!  That statistic that he voted with his [...]

“Can I call you Joe?”

The VP Debate should be quite amusing…

Scary

This is an incredibly interesting tactic by the Obama campaign.  Granted this probably isn’t going to be airing in any television markets, but even to release such a thing online, I think, is interesting.  It seems like most campaigns want their candidate to seem more presidential, while making the other seem less presidential, so showing [...]

Ack mah, ack mah, Ahmadinejad. Pardon me.

Are Republican candidates coached to purposefully exhibit difficulty in saying the President of Iran’s name?  I think it may be a carefully planned machination.  It makes them seem more “American,” more traditional, less cosmopolitan, less intellectual, which are traits that Americans can look for in their candidates.
If not done to make the candidates seem more [...]

Ooooh!

After Barack Obama leveled a claim that John McCain has said he won’t even meet with the Prime Minister of Spain, McCain said “I’m not going to lay out my meeting schedule before I’ve even been elected, I don’t even have a Presidential seal yet.”
Ouch.
Of course, this refers to Barack Obama’s “seal,” used for only [...]

Bracelets

“Let me just make a point Jim, you know I’ve got a bracelet too.”-Barack Obama. 
At least we know, no matter who wins, they both have bracelets.  God Bless America.

Bernie Sanders, the best (independent) Senator in the U.S.

Check out the letter, sign the petition, don’t let the bailout leave the American people in the dust, and don’t let the same mistakes of deregulation happen again.
Sanders, you’re awesome.