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Gore Puts Global Warming in a Partisan Lock Box

Gore endorsing Obama for the Democratic nomination during the primary campaign. Standing on stage before a national TV audience at Mile High Stadium, Al Gore was a symbolic reminder of what could...

Started in Framing Science • 17 hours ago • 0 responses
Tags: global warming
GOP Platform Calls for Banning ALL Embryonic Stem Cell Research...

If this National Review report is true, the GOP platform calls for making illegal all forms of embryonic stem cell research, even privately financed research. Definitely a story to watch. Read the...

Started in Framing Science • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: stem cell/ cloning research
A Strong Speech That's Trumped by a 3AM Phone Call

The people running John McCain's campaign know what they are doing. By linking their advertising strategy to the news narrative, they continue to successfully counter-punch against an anemic...

Started in Framing Science • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: 2008 election
Could a New Orleans Hurricane Derail the McCain Message?

For a campaign that appears to be making all the right moves, Mother Nature might be the one variable that the McCain team can't control. As New Orleans prepares to evacuate three years to the day...

Started in Framing Science • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: 2008 election
Quoted at Washington Times on Anti-Obama Movie

There's an anti-Obama documentary in release and don't underestimate its potential impact. McCain needs something to intensify his base and research shows that political documentaries--whether...

Started in Framing Science • 1 day ago • 0 responses
Tags: 2008 election
Madison Avenue Creative Directors Suggest Their Own Election Images

Adweek asked the creative directors at some of the country's largest advertising agencies to create their own mock up print ads for either McCain or Obama. Read and see what they came up with. Read...

Started in Framing Science • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: 2008 election
2004 Redux: A Democratic Convention Without a Message?

"Well, if this party has a message it has done a hell of a job of hiding it tonight I promise you that," James Carville said on CNN Monday night (see ABC's The Note). "I look at this and I am about...

Started in Framing Science • 3 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: 2008 election
McCain Ad Looks to Break the "Spiral of Silence" Among Hillary Supporters

A McCain ad released today features a former Clinton delegate telling fellow Hillary supporters that she plans to vote for John McCain and it's okay for them to do so too. Strategically, the TV...

Started in Framing Science • 4 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: 2008 election
The New Evangelicals? Mega-church Pastor to Appear at Dem Convention

"New Evangelical" Joel Hunter (blue shirt) works with church members on a recycling campaign. Evangelical leader Joel C. Hunter, a registered Republican, will give the closing prayer at the...

Started in Framing Science • 6 days ago • 0 responses
Tags: 2008 election
Expect Obama to "Prime" the Scanner Moment

Is McCain's "House" Gaffe Similar to George Bush's 1992 "Scanner" Moment?In his first major negative ad of the campaign, Obama is defining McCain as out of touch with Americans' economic woes....

Started in Framing Science • 1 week ago • 0 responses
Tags: 2008 election