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Month: October 2007
Seamus McCaffery campaign
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Campaign ad: Olivia Nutter on public schools
The delightfully simple, effective and well-received campaign advertisement supporting Michael Nutter. The catch, of course, is that Michael doesn’t say much at all, but rather his daughter Olivia, who boasts being the only child of any of the other candidates for mayor to be in a public school, does the talking.
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Honors Thesis: time to focus on Philadelphia
Suddenly October is melting away, and I need to move on this thesis project.
After a summer of intellectual wandering, casually Philadelphia-focused reading, broad urban political reading, and comparative city campaign research, I am returning to a focus on Philadelphia.
Interview: Karen Kaufmann, University of Maryland associate professor of government and politics
Today, I got the chance to briefly sit down with Karen Kaufmann, an associate professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and author of the Urban Voter, which I may likely use to frame a
portion of my final paper.
It was the first interview of my thesis, for which I expect to do many, and a fine start, indeed.