http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ thoughts & observations on politics, the first campaign, books, and la joie de vivre en-us blog@garrettgraff.com 2008-11-05T17:30:07-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000173.html As this seemingly endless election nears its final days, I've been talking nearly endlessly about the themes of "The First Campaign" and especially about young voters. I've given something like a dozen speeches in the last two weeks of this... 173@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-11-05T17:30:07-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000171.html I called it! Back in January, the day after the Barack Obama lost the New Hampshire primary, during a TV interview for a New York show called "The Digital Age," I predicted that Obama would still be the nominee for... 171@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-11-05T16:13:23-05:00 http://garrettgraff.com/blog/archives/000172.html I've got a piece in today's New York Post about the incredible amount of money that's been raised so far in this presidential election. I've been following this story for two years and even I was surprised when I dove... 172@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-10-26T12:16:32-05:00 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... 164@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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... 166@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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... 163@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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... 167@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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... 168@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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.... 169@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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... 165@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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... 170@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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... 162@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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:... 161@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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... 160@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 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... 159@http://garrettgraff.com/blog/ 2008-04-15T12:39:28-05:00