Hi folks, the CAP just posted the video of today’s presentation. I’ll be writing a summary/analysis later this weekend, but I encourage you to check out what the presenters had to say — it was an excellent event.
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December 1st, 2006
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The George Allen “macaca” video has already become legend in the political world — a captured moment that spread spontaneously around the web and helped sink the campaign of a man who’d been touted as presidential contender.
Or at least that’s the simplified version that’s entered much of the public discussion about the 2006 campaign. But what really happened? At today’s New Organizing Institute/Center for American Progress event, Jim Webb campaign manager Jessica Vanden Berg told a much more nuanced story about how the campaign took their opponent’s mistake and ran with it as far as they could. Macaca didn’t just happen; the Webb people MADE it happen.
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December 1st, 2006
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