http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ thoughts & observations on politics, the first campaign, books, and la joie de vivre en-us 2008-08-13T08:04:00-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000164.html I've spent much of the last couple of weeks interviewing people and thinking about Barack Obama's online and offline organizing strategy. It's a very impressive operation—one that is not getting the credit it deserves (which is, I believe, precisely what... Garrett 2008-08-13T08:04:00-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000166.html My latest Capital Commentary today celebrates the 2nd birthday of the "Macaca video" that doomed George Allen with my roundup of the best, most influential, and groundbreaking political videos of the 2008 election. My favorite is still the Chuck Norris... Garrett 2008-08-11T11:11:42-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000163.html I've spent much of this spring and summer working on a giant piece for the magazine about the FBI Director Robert Mueller and the Bureau post-9/11. It was a fascinating story to write and research—I was really surprised at how... Garrett 2008-08-06T10:57:11-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000167.html I spend a lot of time trying to cajole Republicans towards understanding and better using technology and so I wanted to give credit where credit is due: John Culberson and other House Republicans are really doing some ground-breaking stuff in... Garrett 2008-08-04T12:15:59-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000168.html I'm really concerned about the extent to which John McCain has checked out of the technological era and so spent this week's Capital Commentary talking about it: There was a time back in 2000 during his maverick, Straight Talk Express-debuting... Garrett 2008-07-28T14:28:17-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000169.html Thanks to Micah Sifry and Andrew Rasiej for including "The First Campaign" in their roundup of the best "Politics 2.0" books for summer reading.... Garrett 2008-07-24T16:52:13-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000165.html I'm starting to write a weekly political/Washington column for the magazine website entitled "Capital Commentary," playing off my section, Capital Comment. The first column deals with the Netroots Nation convention in Austin, Texas, where I spent the last week. It's... Garrett 2008-07-21T14:09:08-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000170.html I achieved one of my mini-career goals this month with the publication of my first Wired article. In the article, which was part of their cover package on "The Petabyte Age," I look at the Democratic firm Catalist, which is... Garrett 2008-06-23T22:46:23-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000162.html Just wanted to give a nod to one of my star students from the spring semester, who does public affairs for the Navy and just returned from helping to set up the public affairs portion of a hospital ship's trip... Garrett 2008-05-22T16:28:15-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000161.html Here's my debut on G4's "Attack of the Show" from last night, talking about YouTube and the 2008 election:... Garrett 2008-05-06T06:57:41-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000160.html I found out this week that one of my colleagues from Dean for America passed away. Hunter and I worked really closely together during my first months at the campaign before he shipped out to Iowa. He'd come to the... Garrett 2008-05-01T08:15:42-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000159.html So an email just arrived from Hillary Clinton thanking me for all of my support: "I want to personally thank you for all you've done to support our campaign. Your continuing commitment over the past months to the values we... Garrett 2008-04-15T12:39:28-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000158.html So I'm the exact reverse of the media trend right now: I just signed up for my second hard-copy dead-tree newspaper. I subscribed last week to the Wall Street Journal, which I've been reading more and more over the last... Garrett 2008-04-15T08:14:08-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000157.html News today that Waterford Crystal could "quit" Ireland if the government refused to back a new round of loans there: In a statement, Waterford said it "believes that it is desirable for Ireland to maintain Waterford Crystal in Ireland. It... Garrett 2008-04-14T21:44:12-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000156.html Would it be that terrible for us to admit that Barack Obama had some truth in his statements? Howard Dean ran into similar trouble in 2004 when he was talking about people in the South who wave the Confederate flag.... Garrett 2008-04-14T15:10:53-05:00