Sean Smith Gets Grilled

Record (0.00 / 0)

Do you think that program will allow us to record it and repost it here at MLN?

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by: concorde @ Fri Jun 30, 2006 at 13:24:09 PM UTC

Not the entire civilized world... (0.00 / 0)

...because 7:30 Sunday morning is actually the middle of the day in a lot of the civilised world. Time zones, BranfordBoy.

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by: bluestater @ Fri Jun 30, 2006 at 23:30:51 PM UTC

i feel bad for the dude (0.00 / 0)

that man must hate his job. i sorta feel bad for him cuz sometimes you can tell in his face that he's doing it "for the mortgage," as thank you for smoking puts it so nicely.

someone get that guy a bulletproof vest lol.

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die." - Teddy Kennedy

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by: bartletispresident @ Sat Jul 01, 2006 at 01:42:29 AM UTC

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Mortgage? (0.00 / 0)

The guy is a mercenary whose entire philosophy encapsulates everything wrong with Beltway politics.

Sean has pioneered a communications technique known as “impression management.” Based on the premise that it is the low-information, episodic voter that swings elections—and that those voters only make broad impressions of candidates—Sean has developed an innovative approach to political communications. He has successfully applied these principles to issue campaigns and general communications campaigns.

The politics of cynicism.

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by: Scarce @ Sat Jul 01, 2006 at 01:48:39 AM UTC

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lol (0.00 / 0)

nevermind what i said then. whered you get that blurb?

"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die." - Teddy Kennedy

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by: bartletispresident @ Sat Jul 01, 2006 at 04:40:00 AM UTC

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His website (0.00 / 0)

http://www.smithstrategies.com/

I suggested a symbol change. No reply.

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by: Scarce @ Sat Jul 01, 2006 at 04:46:58 AM UTC

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I Listened This Morning (0.00 / 0)

Sean started in with pro-Republican votes in Greenwich, said Ned resigned from Greewich DTC over their unhappiness with his voting (first time I heard that); hit on the "contradiction" of a campaign manager saying he was against an Iraq vote , then Ned saying he would have voted for it. Mentioned $11/2 million of his own money being spent to call Joe names.

Sean got in some good blows on "crusade or jihad" which Sean couldn't respond to.

The most interesting part of the interview were the questions about push polling. Sean claimed not to know what it was, did not know any of the firms allegedly doing it, denied that the campaign was doing it or ever would, and said don't believe anything you read on the blogs.

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by: Jon Kantrowitz @ Mon Jul 03, 2006 at 03:19:00 AM UTC

Actually... (0.00 / 0)

...if I heard right, Sean *did* admit to knowing what push-polling is, and also he did not rule out that he would use it.

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by: bluestater @ Mon Jul 03, 2006 at 15:29:25 PM UTC

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At First He Denied It (0.00 / 0)

Then he admitted he knew what it was - - said he would never want to work for a candidate who had to use it - finally said he wouldn't rule out any option.

But he still denied that Joe was using it.

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by: Jon Kantrowitz @ Mon Jul 03, 2006 at 17:02:18 PM UTC

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