National Agenda 2011: Girding for Battle featuring Valerie Biden Owens and Joe Slade White
A University of Delaware National Agenda speaker series audience got a behind the scenes look at political advertising from some of the most successful professionals in the field during a presentation Wednesday evening, Oct. 19, in Mitchell Hall. The award-winning Joe Slade White and Valerie Biden Owens, a UD alumna and the sister of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., also a Blue Hen, discussed key principles and best practices for successful media campaigns in a presentation titled “Selling the Candidates.”
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National Agenda 2011: Girding for Battle featuring Candy Crowley
Politics in the United States might well be at “defcon level” in terms of rage, gridlock, misunderstanding, disinformation and preening, CNN political reporter Candy Crowley told a large National Agenda speaker series audience Wednesday evening, Sept. 14, in the University of Delaware’s Mitchell Hall. But, she added, there is hope. “In terms of pure vitriol, this is the worst I’ve seen,” Crowley said, from angry citizens at rallies and town hall meetings to the heated rhetoric of elected officials on Capitol Hill. “I am stunned, sometimes, at the rage.”
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National Agenda 2011: Girding for Battle featuring Steve Schmidt and Chris Lehane
Handicapping the 2012 presidential race is problematic, two leading political consultants told a National Agenda speaker series audience Wednesday night in Mitchell Hall, because a potential game changer — Chris Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey and a University of Delaware alumnus — remains on the sideline.
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