VMMI Policy Perspectives

Romney in a Box

Mitt Romney finds himself in quite an interesting position right now. He’s been overtaken in the national polls by Rick Santorum, as he has been several times in the past months by other candidates. Each time this has happened, the Romney machine has geared up and laid waste to the opposition with negative ads from ...

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Moving the School Board Elections: An Insider’s Perspective

I write about this particular topic with personal and intimate knowledge of the subject. Many people do not understand the inner workings of a school district until they have served on a local school board, donating their time and sweat equity to make their public schools the best they can be. In April of 2008, ...

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Governor Christie Town Hall

Yesterday, I had the privilege of attending a Town Hall meeting in Denville, N.J., hosted by our beloved Governor Chris Christie. I attended with my mother, a 36-year veteran of the Denville Board of Education, in hopes of getting some much needed answers regarding the merit-based pay system proposed by Christie, in which teachers will ...

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The Death Spiral

A few years ago, at the height of youthful overconfidence and Obama-fueled hubris, I started a blog called Republican Death Spiral. Its purpose was to catalogue instances of Republicans moving further and further to the right in order to placate the conservative base, in the process ruining their chances in general elections. Of course, I ...

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Is Newt Back?

There’s a lot of action in South Carolina right now, where the tide seems once again to be turning against Mitt Romney. Nate Silver of Five Thirty Eight and The New York Times now sees Newt Gingrich as the clear frontrunner for Saturday’s primary based on his polling model. National trends show the race tightening ...

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Colbert for President?

Earlier this week, television personality Stephen Colbert announced that he is seriously exploring a presidential run in South Carolina, making it legal by handing over control of his beloved Super PAC to Jon Stewart last evening. A recent survey from Public Policy Polling showed the former “Daily Show” correspondent leading former Utah governor Jon Huntsman ...

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Iowa 2012: Final Thoughts, Facts, Figures

Eight votes. Eight votes separated the top two finishers in the 2012 Republican Iowa caucus. That’s the closest finish ever, with Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum both getting approximately 25 percent of the vote each, and Ron Paul coming in with about 21 percent. Now much of this has already been reported, so I thought ...

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A Good Year

2011 has been a good year here at Vision Media. There were ups and downs, as there are in any year, but on the whole, we are a stronger, better-positioned company to tackle the challenges and opportunities that will present themselves to us than we were a year ago – and that’s a good place ...

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Shining the “Light” on a Green Holiday

The holiday season is upon us with full force, and the annual battle of the lights in my neighborhood is a steeper competition than ever. So neighbor number one wants to try and outdo neighbor number two with a blazing rooftop display that can be seen from outer space? Well, neighbor number three just passed ...

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American Association of Political Consultants

This past week, I took a time out from my busy work schedule to attend a professional development conference. The American Association of Political Consultants gathered at the graduate campus of Fordham University to discuss developments in our industry, where we are going and the general tone of the upcoming Presidential election cycle. Moderated by ...

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