Political logos define campaigns

(CNN) — Candidates can only be in one place at one time, but their logos can be anywhere. The carefully-crafted designs represent a candidate’s brand, attempting to capture a multi-million dollar campaign in a symbol simple enough to fit on a button. “Logos are that first handshake with a voter,” said Ty Fujimura, a graphic…

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Emerge Kentucky Graduates Its Second Class of Women Candidates

By Kathy Groob – When Emerge Kentucky launched its female candidate training program for Democratic women in 2009, the state was ranked 45th in the nation for women in politics and just 15% of the members in the state legislature were women.  On Saturday Emerge Kentucky graduated its second class of 24 women and encourages…

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Want to Reach Women? Social Media.

By Eli Rosenburg for The Atlantic Wire – Chart: Ladies Love Social Networking, But Not LinkedIn Though the jury’s still out on whether the digital world has truly shaken up traditional power structures, The Pew Research Center has just tossed a fun little nugget into the debate: its new study shows 56 percent of the users of…

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Why Political Balance on Supreme Courts Matters

By Kathy Groob The 2010 elections resulted in a Republican-dominated Ohio Supreme Court, with six of the seven justices from the GOP. The lone Democrat – and newest member of the court – is Justice Yvette McGee Brown, who shared the campaign ticket with Governor Ted Strickland. Before leaving office, Gov. Strickland appointed Brown to…

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Hahn Campaign to file FEC complaint Against Huey Campaign for alliance with maker of horrible commercial

Hahn Campaign Calls for Federal Investigation into Possible Coordination Between Huey Campaign and Independent Expenditure Following the release of the most explicit, racist and sexist pro-Huey online smear commercial, the Janice Hahn for Congress campaign announced it was filing a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) calling for a Federal Investigation into linkages between…

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THIS WEEK – The Art of Political Campaigning, Washington, D.C.

The Art of Political Campaigning begins Thursday this week as Campaigns & Elections (Politics Magazine) hosts its annual three-day campaign training program that has trained more than 10,000 politicos around the world.   ElectWomen Magazine will be featured with Kathy Groob, EW Publisher, speaking on a panel to discuss women’s campaign issues on Friday, June 12th…

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Running Start – Empowering Young Women to Dream Big

By Kathy Groob, Publisher ElectWomen Magazine Study after study has shown that women do not think about politics as often as men – and especially when it comes to thinking about actually running for public office.  Running Start was founded with one specific purpose in mind – to encourage young women to become involved in…

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South Carolina Women Serious About Winning

There isn’t any doubt that the women of the Southeastern Institute for Women in Politics are serious about taking their state from the bottom, dead last (50th) for women in politics in South Carolina.  The bi-partisan Institute held their annual banquet and Leading Women 2009 campaign training this past weekend. 300 guests attended the banquet…

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