An election like no other?

Campaigning for President 2008: Strategy and Tactics, New Voices and New Techniques

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-28

  Johnson, Dennis W ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84917320656     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203878972     Document Type: Chapter

References (28)

1. Dennis W. Johnson, "First Hurdles: The Evolution of the Pre-Primary and Primary Stages of American Presidential Elections," in Winning Elections with Political Marketing, ed. Philip Davies and Bruce I. Newman (New York: Routledge, 2006), 177-203.
2. William G. Mayer and Andrew E. Busch The Front-Loading Problem in Presidential Nominations (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2004).
3. Craig Garthwaite and Tim Moore, "The Role of Celebrity Endorsements in Politics:Oprah, Obama, and the 2008 Democratic Primary," August 2008, www.econ.umd. edu/~garthwaite/celebrityendorsements_garthwaitemoore.pdf (accessed January 1, 2009).
4. Nielsen Company, September 4, 2008, Nielsen Wire, http://blog.nielsen.com/ nielsenwire/category/politics/ (accessed January 1, 2009).
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7. Lisa de Moraes, "Biden and Palin Draw Record 73 Million to the Veep Show," Washington Post.com, October 4, 2008, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/ content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100301690.html (accessed January 1, 2009)
8. Rick Kissell "Audiences Tune In for Final Debate," Variety, October 16, 2008, www.variety.com/article/VR1117994135.html?categoryid=1064&cs=1 (accessed January 1, 2009).
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10. Kate M. Kenski, "No-Excuse Absentee and Early Voting during the 2000 and 2004 Elections: Results from the Annenberg Election Survey," paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., www.allacademic.com/meta/p41477_index.html (accessed January 1, 2009).
11. Also, Thad Kousser and Megan Mullin, "Does Voting by Mail Increase Participation? Using Matching to Analyze a Natural Experiment," Political Analysis 15 (4) (2007): 428-445.
12. Jon Cohen and Kyle Dropp "Early Voters Breaking Records," Washington Post, October 30, 2008, A2.
13. Eli Saslow "In Flag City USA, False Obama Rumors Are Flying," Washington Post, June 30, 2008, A1.
14. Scott Keeter and Nilanthi Samaranayake, Can You Trust What Polls Say about Obama's Electoral Prospects? Pew Research Center (February 7, 2007), http:// pewresearch.org/pubs/408/can-you-trust-what-polls-say-about-obamas-electoralprospects (accessed January 1, 2009).
15. Keeter and Samaranayake, Can You Trust What Polls Say about Obama's Electoral Prospects?.
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17. Robert Draper "The Making (and Remaking and Remaking) of the Candidate," New York Times, Magazine, October 26, 2008.
18. Jim Webb quoted in Peter J. Boyer "The Appalachian Problem," New Yorker, October 6, 2008.
19. Peter Beinart "Last of the Culture Warriors," Washington Post, November 3, 2008, A21.
20. Dennis W. Johnson, No Place for Amateurs: How Political Consultants Are Reshaping American Democracy, 2nd ed. (New York: Routledge, 2007), 163-164.
21. Michael Luo and Mike McIntire "With Ambitious Campaign, Obama Is Both Big Spender and Penny Pincher," New York Times, October 31, 2008.
22. William Kristol "Fire the Campaign," New York Times, October 13, 2008.
23. See, for example, Elisabeth Bumiller "Internal Battles Divided McCain and Palin Camps," New York Times, November 6, 2008.
24. Thomas M. Holbrook Do Campaigns Matter? (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996)
25. Thomas M. Holbrook, "Do Campaigns Really Matter?" in The Electoral Challenge:Theory Meets Practice, ed. Stephen C. Craig (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2006), 1-21.
26. Ray C. Fair, Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things (Stanford, Calif.:Stanford University Press, 2002). Fair maintains a website where he posts papers and predictions for the 2004 and 2008 presidential elections, http://fairmodel. econ.yale.edu (accessed January 1, 2009).
27. Allan J. Lichtman, "The Keys to the White House: Forecast for 2008," International Symposium on Forecasting, San Antonio, Texas, June 12-15, 2005, www.forecastingprinciples.com/Political/PDFs/ISF2005/Lichtman_Keys. pdf (accessed January 1, 2009)
28. See also Allan J. Lichtman and Ken DeCell, The Thirteen Keys to the Presidency (Lanham, Md.: Madison, 1990).