I made a comment to National Journal’s Elahe Izadi about how Republican campaigns are run … GOP political strategist Soren Dayton uses a war analogy to illustrate the conundrum: “Part of the reason World War I was so bloody was that they had the basic tools of modern warfare, but Read more…
Politico’s Byron Tau writes a very good piece on the rise of American lobbies in Brussels. My comment: “Business and other players in the policy debate should not be complacent with gridlock and stasis in Washington,” said Soren Dayton, a senior vice president with Prism Public Affairs, who has worked Read more…
At Redstate, I wrote about the dysfunction of the Senate Budget process: During the last debt ceiling fight, some pundits in the media and on the left wished for the “Gephardt rule” when the House automatically raised the debt ceiling when they passed a budget. Josh Green at the Atlantic praised it in 2011, Read more…
I was asked about the future of sentiment analysis in campaigns. My answer: Still, there are plenty of caveats. Sentiment analysis can still be costly for down-ballot campaigns. And Soren Dayton, SVP at Prism Public Affairs, says only presidential races would have the signal-to-noise ratio for sentiment analysis to truly Read more…