Election Officials Who Work for Key Obama Surrogate Ignore State Law in Wisconsin

By: Brian Fraley (Diary)  |  October 23rd at 12:23 PM  | 

Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is the Obama campaign point man in Wisconsin. The three-time Democratic candidate for Governor (who lost to Republican Governor Scott Walker in 2010 and again in this Summer’s failed recall election) routinely  acts as a local surrogate for the President. Barrett enven flew down to the Republican National Convention in Tampa earlier this year to hold a press conference on the | Read More »

Small President Clings to Big Bird

By: Brian Fraley (Diary)  |  October 10th at 11:47 AM  | 

Barack Obama, 2008: “If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.” Barack Obama, 2012: Big Bird! Big Bird! Big Bird! Today’s lesson in campaign implosions brought to you by | Read More »