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If you're reading this magazine there is a good chance you are familiar with a voter file. For a generation, it has been the common ingredient in everything we do. [...]

Traditional media isn't collapsing, but it sure isn't growing. 2012 marked the first decline in television ownership since its invention. With the end of Saturday mail delivery, the cash-strapped Postal [...]

Running this 30-year-old institution means we have the responsibility--or burden, depending on how you look at it--to have to consider the 'struck by lightning' scenario a million different ways. Here's [...]

Tracking major campaigns even in the off-season can be a daunting task. There were three errors in the December Win-Loss list: Voter Survey Service was inaccurately listed as Susquehanna Polling. [...]

It's time to end waste, fraud and abuse. I don't mean in government. I mean in our campaign messaging. We have become so adept at finding a phrase that works [...]

The professional political community lost a friend and mentor recently, Alan Locke. A longtime Campaigns & Elections employee, Alan spent years growing our organization. He was a friend who challenged [...]

Thirty years ago this month, the first issue of Campaigns & Elections was published. Between the covers of Volume 1, Issue 1 lay the future community of political professionals. I [...]

This is the 50th issue in my tenure as publisher at Campaigns & Elections. In the years I've been around 'we've made some important changes and modernizations, most of which [...]

Since our launch in 1980, each successive publisher has taken care to keep Campaigns & Elections out of the policy debates that defined most other magazines. We're followed equally by [...]

Summer break is over, my friends. The signs are here. In Washington, the interns have departed and the traffic has returned. My son has started kindergarten and hordes of recent [...]

Exactly twenty years ago, Francis Fukuyama famously declared 'the end of history' because the debate over how humans should govern themselves was nearing its end. At that point, Western liberal [...]

My home phone number is (202) 652-0039. Call it. Your chance of reaching a live person is not so good. When nobody picks up, leave a message. I haven't checked [...]

As we wrapped up the recent Politics Online conference, run in partnership with George Washington University and the Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet, I was struck by the [...]

Trying to figure out who invented political consulting is sort of like the debate over who invented baseball. The further we get away from the origins of the game, the [...]

While many in our community are preparing for the next campaign, we're closely watching four areas that will define our industry for years to come: Will the technological leaps of [...]

Full disclosure: I haven't followed Obama's first hundred days. Our attention has already swung to the tens of thousands of local candidates up for election in 2009. It's enough to [...]

Since the close of the 2008 campaign cycle, my role has been to plan. Planning to support our long-term print advertisers, planning to keep Campaigns & Elections strong while other [...]

If you are reading this magazine, there is a 90 percent chance you worked on a campaign this fall. You may have developed an unhealthy personal relationship with David Axelrod [...]

Families have a way of making brutal observations seem so loving. My cousin, a high-profile magazine editor, recently described me as experienced in the 'black arts' of campaigning. That was [...]

Campaigns & Elections--in fact the entire political community--lost a pioneer and I lost a friend last month. Stanley Foster Reed, the founder of our magazine, passed away after a long [...]

Never one to miss the best toys in politics, I've pounded my way through no less than five Blackberries and a Palm Treo over the last several years. Regardless, I [...]

If you think Rove's first race was Bush-Cheney 2000, you are wrong. If you think James Carville's first race was Clinton-Gore 1992 wrong again. And if you thought Arthur Finkelstein's [...]

Got plans for June 1, 2 and 3? We do. Those are the dates of our annual June seminar in Washington. Nearly 40 sessions are scheduled with some of the [...]

When Stanley Foster Reed founded Campaigns & Elections magazine in 1980, he had no idea that the world of politics would change so fast. Two and a half decades after [...]