retail politics

It’s still the economy, stupid.

I was going door-to-door last night for Barack Obama in my neighborhood. This time the list was pretty inclusive- every registered voter. On the homes without any registered voters (and there weren’t many) I went up and tried to register people. I only ran into a few that thought they were voting for McCain. One, Read More

A florist, a jackeroo, but no advertising professionals- on picking congress.

I read a lot. Today, I came across a passage in “Confessions of an Advertising Man” by the great copywriter and agency chief, David Ogilvy. It was originally published in 1963, a year after my birth. I’ve wanted to read this book for years, so the timing of this paragraph was almost prescient: “But even Read More