{"id":990,"date":"2003-12-29T16:46:39","date_gmt":"2003-12-29T23:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/the-talk-radio-campaign\/"},"modified":"2003-12-29T16:46:39","modified_gmt":"2003-12-29T23:46:39","slug":"the-talk-radio-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/the-talk-radio-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"The Talk Radio Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bush’s Campaign Finds Platform on Local Radio<\/a> By JIM RUTENBERG, NYTimes<\/p>\n

While the Bush campaign maintains a low profile on the national campaign stage \u2014 content for now to watch the Democrats beat on one another \u2014 it is aggressively working the expansive hustings of Republican-friendly talk radio, priming the grass roots faithful for battle next year<\/b>. …<\/p>\n

It is a network that the Democrats do not have<\/b> \u2014 though they are trying to cultivate one \u2014 and one that Mr. Bush’s campaign strategists believe will give him an edge<\/b> in an election that could go to whichever side best mobilizes its core voters.<\/p>\n

Presidents have used radio to reach voters virtually since its invention. But strategists and radio experts say the Bush campaign has taken it to a new level of sophistication<\/b>, using it far earlier in the campaign cycle and appearing regularly on shows with even the tiniest of audiences. …<\/p>\n

The Republican courtship of talk radio began in earnest in 1994<\/b>, when Newt Gingrich used the medium to push the “Contract With America” and, ultimately, bring about a Republican majority in the House of Representatives. <\/p>\n

Mr. Bush’s political staff further perfected the strategy in the 2002 midterm election<\/b>, when they invited radio hosts to the White House to interview top officials less than a week before the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bush’s Campaign Finds Platform on Local Radio By JIM RUTENBERG, NYTimes While the Bush campaign maintains a low profile on the national campaign stage \u2014 content for now to watch the Democrats beat on one another \u2014 it is aggressively working the expansive hustings of Republican-friendly talk radio, priming the grass roots faithful for battle … Continue reading The Talk Radio Campaign<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}