Sentences with phrase «political junkies»

But, by far the most important element (for political junkies at least) of Van Susteren's interview came when the FNC anchor asked the Alaska Governor about her future plans.

Erik heads Crain's political coverage, pens the masthead editorials and edits Crain's Insider, a blog that has long been a must - read for government officials, business leaders and political junkies in New York.

it might make it safe for the children / real political junkies who can't help themselves to find a fun place to play with the other kids.

Our group of political junkies met in the local Chat «n» Chew last night, and it was a rip roaring session.

The general public isn't paying nearly as much attention to this spat as political junkies think — and that's what matters in the referendum.

This effect is probably more important before a primary election than in a general, since uncommitted voters probably aren't reading blogs aimed at political junkies, but blogs can still influence the level of excitement local activists feel as elections loom and hence affect the effort they'll put into campaigns.

For political junkies like myself, it beats the Super Bowl and the NCAA basketball tournament any day!

Colorado is single - handedly keeping political junkies from falling into the typical August doldrums with a trio of fascinating intraparty fights.

General election races may attract the most interest from the casual political observers but for true political junkies there is nothing that matches the intensity (read: nastiness) that defines primary fights.

California - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R): Schwarzenegger's ascension to the governorship in October 2003 will be retold by political junkies for decades to come.

«C - Span Gives Political Junkies 160,000 Hours of Video to Explore Main Tuesday's Three Burning Legal Questions»

Television is still the best way to reach that great mass of potential voters who are NOT political junkies; it's a road running straight toward the Holy Grail of American presidential politics, the Independent Voter.

Fortunately for political junkies there are still a few competitive races to watch in the city council election... sort of.

This is what political junkies like us live for.

«A rule of thumb among political junkies says that that the actual vote for a third - party candidate tends to be roughly half of what that candidate was getting in pre-election polls around Labor Day,» said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland.

Political junkies now have more than 160,000 hours of C - Span footage to explore.

In fact, normal people are less predictable than political junkies think.

We'll be kicking the promo campaign into high gear over the next couple of weeks, trying to get this sucker into the hands of as many journalists, bloggers, Twitterers, texters, smoke - signalers and flat - out political junkies as possible.

Pennsylvania isn't really going to say very much about November no matter who wins, but the T's are so lacking in overt campaigners that their getting massacred won't be particularly visible except to real Political Junkies with sharp eyes, good computer skills, and a true geek's knowledge of Spreadsheet work.

Most political junkies by now have heard the term «Truthers,» the far - left - fringe nuts who think that the George W. Bush Administration was responsible for 9/11.

In Trump's first year in office, PredictIt's population of traders has grown to 80,000 from 50,000 as the White House deals political junkies a litany of new policy, personnel and, yes, Twitter events.

In a deft synthesis of escapism and dreadful reality — like successfully mixing ice cream with Buckley's cough syrup — an unknown sports sophisticate and political junkie named Paul Kaplan (an Atlanta Braves fan, but that's not a crime) sent a letter to his congressman to protest the defeat of his baseball team in the National League playoffs and demand they be crowned the winners anyway.

American political junkies have been frustrated with Republican presidential hopefuls playing hard to get.

Both mouthy political junkies guilty of polluting the intellectual environment.

While the election campaign that Mr. Gore appeared determined to keep going until the numbers came out right may have exhausted all but the most hard - core political junkies and made the rest of us grateful that there is not another presidential election for four years, we should not too quickly acquiesce in the urgings that we «put it behind us» and «move on.»

The other thing that jumped out this weekend as I've been reading the reviews of presidential campaign websites is just how crazy early in the electoral process it is for so many political junkies to be producing so much analysis of the 2008 campaign.

It's perfectly understandable when political junkies and box office watchers conclude that Web buzz augurs big things, but it's also perfectly backwards.

David A. Singer is a former political consultant / campaign professional and political junkie currently toiling as a lawyer in Westchester and managing real estate and media investments.

I exclude any contests for Judicial Delegates & Alternates and County Committee as they are so obscure that even political junkies don't usually care about them.

There were relatively few major scandals in 2010, but there's still enough red meat to keep carnivorous political junkies happy.

True, there IS LaGuardia Airport But most New Yorkers — save for the most mainlining political junkies — don't even know (a) he was mayor; and (b) he was a Republican.

Live - tweeting now affords political junkies and assorted social media users the privilege of experiencing this brutal teardown in real time.

Top - level political reporters can be difficult to pin down, since they're typically on the road with the campaigns (and are oh - so - important as well), so definitely branch out by trying to connect with bloggers, tweeters and other online influentials who might have an interest in your issues — it's time - consuming, but it's one of the few ways to make your materials stand out from the constant information - clutter in which political junkies constantly drown.

But it seems like only political junkies reallly understand who he is.

I consider this topic to be a real eyes - glaze - over thing that can only hold the interest of die - hard political junkies.

An indispensable resource for journalists, political professionals, students and political junkies around the world.

Eight days are all that separate political junkies from the first significant vote of the 2007 - 2008 election cycle.

Each candidate will make their pick, the media will be all abuzz, yet nobody outside of us crazy political junkies will give it a second thought, especially with the Olympics looming.

For political junkies craving a preview of the 2006 election, look no further than today's special election in California's 50th District — the seat most recently held by Randy «Duke» Cunningham, the fighter - pilot - turned - lawmaker who resigned from Congress in disgrace last year after pleading guilty to taking bribes from a defense contractor.

My point here is not to debate these policies, but to observe one of the differences between normal voters and political junkies such as myself and (probably) you.

And last week's Republican debate may have winnowed the field for some local political junkies, but only by a bit.

W. is, in the end, an ambitious failure that'll most likely please political junkies, with the remainder of viewers sure to be left frustrated by Stone's increasingly uneven modus operandi.

Former soldier John Cale (Tatum) is trying to land a job with the Secret Service, and he brings his estranged political junkie daughter Emily (Joey King, who looks like the little sister of Alia Shawkat) with him to his interview at the White House in the hopes of buttering her up.

Teachers, activists, and political junkies need to follow Weingarten.

I must not have noticed that the pages were all boys because, later, as a 13 - year - old political junkie, I wrote a letter to my senator, Everett Dirksen of Illinois, asking how I could become a page.