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Washington's political marketeers scramble for campaign contracts The New Hampshire primary may be only three weeks away, but this year's political image-making is a lowly candidate for ad agency and [...]

Q: Is it ethical to use gender-laden terms, like 'sharp-tongued' or 'outspoken' when your opponent is a woman? A: Using a gender stereotype to undermine a woman's credibility may be [...]

The invitations were mailed a month ago, the guest speaker confirmed last week. When the day of your fund-raiser finally arrives, everybody from caterers to volunteers have given the green [...]

Dominic Pangallo has opened his own shop in Salem, Mass. The Northfields Group will focus primarily on polling and research for Democratic campaigns in the New England region. The firm [...]

Stephanie Cutter has opened her own communications firm, the Cutter Media Group. Cutter is a former adviser to Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and U.S. Sen. Ed Kennedy (D-Mass.). [...]

Congressional Media Group, has opened in Washington, D.C. The firm will offer TV advertising, video news releases, script writing and press event services to corporate, nonprofit and political clients. Lee [...]

Direct-mail consultant Duane Baughman is seeking the spotlight--sort of. He's coproducing the off-Broadway play 'RFK: A Portrait of Robert F. Kennedy,' which is showing at 45 Bleecker Theater in New [...]

Bruce Barcelo Jacksonville, 52, Consultant, Barcelo & Co. Barcelo is the political consultant and pollster of choice for Republican bigwigs in Jacksonville. In addition to working with northeast Florida's political [...]

Former House Republican Conference Chair J.C. Watts Jr. of Oklahoma went into business with prominent GOP pollster Frank Luntz. The new company, Watts-Luntz Communications will be based in Washington, [...]

Eddie Mahe, a long-time GOP political consultant and former Republican National Committee deputy chairman, and his business partner, Ladonna Lee, joined up with Foley & Lardner, a law and government [...]

GOP consultant Katie Cook opened Direct Line Politics, her own Alexandria-based consulting firm. Cook was most recently a principal in Arlington, VA,-based The Lukens Cook Company. Before joining Lukens in [...]

Political consultants face difficult challenges in regrouping from a failed election bid as seen with the case of Senator Phil Gramm. After withdrawing from the presidential primary race, Senator Gramm has decided to run for re-election in his home state of Texas. Political consultant Alex Castellanos must adapt from the role of a presidential consultant to that of a senatorial consultant in formulating advertising for the new campaign., Consultants find it's not easy to regroup after losing an election As his apoplectic colleagues gear up for the presidential primary blitz called Super Tuesday, political consultant Alex Castellanos of [...]

Use of political consultants is the next big problem the municipal bond community must reform. If political contributions are bad for the market, political consultants are bad for it, too. [...]

Louisiana political consultant Carville is receiving credit for Harris Wofford's upset of former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh in the PA Senate race. Carville's populist campaigns are a throwback to the brand of liberalism of the early Democratic Party.

He's at home in corporate, political worlds MIAMI - 'The greatest void in South Florida the past 20 years has been the lack of a decent pool hall.' The statement [...]