The 2008 presidential campaigns will long be remembered as historic.  Of course, one of the most remarkable thresholds crossed was the record breaking financial resources raised and spent through the process.  In fact our fund-raising for McCain-Palin 2008 raised over $450 million, by far the most...

Sen. John McCain "is rewriting the part of presidential loser," the New York Times observes. "Unwilling to vanish into retirement like Bob Dole, or retreat into academia like Al Gore, or even quietly convalesce like John Kerry, Mr. McCain has quickly reclaimed a place on center stage in Washington, ...

DKC is handling PR and logistics for the Huffington Post’s Preinagural Ball, taking place the night of January 19 at the Newseum in Washington. The agency is conducting outreach to titles across a broad spectrum of media to promote pre-, post-, and during-event coverage of the ball, which boasts a...

Via the Politico: Palin: Media goes easy on Kennedy Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska) believes Caroline Kennedy is getting softer press treatment in her pursuit of the New York Senate seat than Palin did as the GOP vice presidential nominee because of Kennedy’s social class. “I’ve been interested to...

Via the Politico: Obama little help to Dems post-election In the three Congressional races decided since Barack Obama defeated John McCain on November 4, the president-elect has kept his distance from the Democratic candidates. While Obama did lend Georgia senate candidate Jim Martin some of his cam...

For an upcoming JQA, I spoke with Katie Connolly, a political correspondent for Newsweek . Connolly was granted behind-the-scenes access to the McCain campaign under the agreement that none of the reporting would be published until after Election Day. One question not included in the printed interv...

Last night's results in Georgia's U.S Senate run off were striking in that Sen Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) beat Jim Martin (D) by 14 points, 57% to 43%, when he only led by three points on Election Day, 49% to 46% The big question: How much did Barack Obama's name on the ballot help Martin last month? Th...

Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) defeated challenger Jim Martin (D) in today's runoff to win re-election, according to the Associated Press. The Hotline: "Sorry Jim Martin, but Al Franken might be the biggest loser tonight. How likely is it that Democratic senators will push for Franken -- or vote not to...

There are so many events and activities for World AIDS Day than I wasn’t able to fit them all in my article from the December 1 issue of PRWeek. Day With(out) Art is one campaign from Visual Arts, which increases awareness of AIDS through visual arts. Positively Aware magazine released a speci...

The final Public Policy Polling survey in Georgia's U.S. Senate runoff finds "overwhelming support from white voters" likely to result in the reelection of Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) over challenger Jim Martin (D), 53% to 46%. A big caveat: "Polling a special election is hard. You usually don't hav...