Opposition Research

Opposition Research
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2024-10-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Explore the strategic world of "Opposition Research," an essential guide in Political Science. In the ever-changing political landscape, understanding how data shapes campaigns is crucial. This book provides insights into gathering and using information to sway outcomes, examining methods, controversies, and ethical questions. 1: Opposition Research - Learn key principles of opposition research vital for political campaigns. 2: Lee Atwater - Discover Lee Atwater’s legacy in modern political strategy. 3: Push Poll - Uncover how push polling subtly influences public opinion. 4: Southern Strategy - Explore how opposition research evolved in Southern U.S. politics. 5: George H. W. Bush - Learn about opposition research in George H. W. Bush's campaigns. 6: Karl Rove - Examine Karl Rove's use of opposition research to shape electoral narratives. 7: James Baker - See how James Baker used research to overcome political hurdles. 8: October Surprise - Study the impact of late-breaking political revelations. 9: White House FBI Files Controversy - Explore ethical questions surrounding FBI files during a White House transition. 10: Presidential Transition of George H. W. Bush - Understand the role of research in shaping presidential transitions. 11: Margaret D. Tutwiler - Analyze Tutwiler’s tactics in political messaging. 12: Ed Rollins - See how Ed Rollins employed research in his campaign strategies. 13: Ken Khachigian - Discover Khachigian’s influence on political discourse through strategic messaging. 14: Robb Austin - Learn from Robb Austin’s expertise in complex political strategies. 15: Operation Sandwedge - Investigate the covert nature of historical opposition research. 16: Robert Bork Supreme Court Nomination - Examine the role of research in judicial nominations. 17: William Timmons (Lobbyist) - Study lobbying’s intersection with opposition research through Timmons' career. 18: Todd Blodgett - Learn from Todd Blodgett’s insights into shaping public opinion. 19: Mike Roman - Analyze Roman’s use of research to enhance campaign management. 20: Presidential Transition of Ronald Reagan - Assess the evolution of research practices in Reagan’s transition. 21: Presidential Transition of Richard Nixon - Reflect on Nixon’s transition and the legacy of research in shaping presidential outcomes. This guide is a must-read for professionals, students, and anyone interested in the intricate dynamics of political strategy. "Opposition Research" offers invaluable insights into how campaigns function, making it an essential resource for understanding the complexities of modern politics.

Opposition Research Handbook

Opposition Research Handbook
Author: BPI Information Services
Publisher:
Total Pages: 96
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781579791964

Designed for the membership of issue oriented grassroots organizations, lobbyists, prosecutors, journalists, etc. Guides the reader through the process of compiling information on political candidates. Includes: tracing donations, conducting library research, profiling a candidate, using election records, investigating campaign spending, uncovering hidden agendas, exposing conflicts of interest, and much more. Contains checklists, sample letters, and forms.

The Opposition Research Handbook

The Opposition Research Handbook
Author: Larry Zilliox, Jr.
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1993-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780788103247

Designed for the membership of issue oriented grassroots organizations, lobbyists, prosecutors, journalists, etc. Guides the reader through the process of compiling information on political candidates. Includes: tracing donations, conducting library research, profiling a candidate, using election records, investigating campaign spending, uncovering hidden agendas, exposing conflicts of interest, & much more. Contains checklists, sample letters, & forms. Bibliography.

We're with Nobody

We're with Nobody
Author: Alan Huffman
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2012-01-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0062098802

We're With Nobody is a thrilling, eye-opening insider’s view of a little-known facet of the political campaign process: the multi-million dollar opposition research industry, or “oppo” as it’s called. For sixteen years authors Alan Huffman and Michael Rejebian have been digging up dirt on political candidates across the country, from presidential appointees to local school board hopefuls. We're With Nobody is a fascinating, riveting, sometimes funny, sometimes shocking look at the unseen side of political campaigning—a remarkable chronicle of a year in the life of two guys on a dedicated hunt to uncover the buried truths that every American voter has a right to know.

Opposition Research

Opposition Research
Author: D. Spice
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2008-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595514332

In this Presidential campaign, someone is trying to steal the election. It's not the press or the government who finds the culprit. It's a former cop now working for a Presidential candidate. Barron Childress, dubbed "the genius" by his former co-workers at Florida's Department of Law Enforcement, has an inquisitive mind and a sound moral compass. He also has a magical ability for finding missing evidence and getting people to say more than they intend. After years of risky undercover work and drug busts, Barron thought opposition research would be a safe haven from the dangers of police work. That is, until he discovers that his boss knows how to hack the machines that record the vote. Now it's up to Barron and two trusted friends to keep The White House from being stolen. On the road to the Oval Office, candidates do what they do best: turn on each other with smear campaigns, distortions, and outright lies. It's the battle of evil versus evil for The White House!

Oppo

Oppo
Author: Tom Rosenstiel
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2019-12-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0062892622

A breathless and highly charged political thriller: the story of a senator who is offered the vice presidential slot by both parties’ presidential nominees and then gets ominous threats It’s presidential primary season in Washington, DC, and both parties are on edge. At campaign rallies for all the candidates around the country, there are disturbing incidents of violence and protest and shocking acts of civil disobedience. Rena and Brooks are happy to sit it out. Against this backdrop, Wendy Upton, the highly respected centrist senator, must make a choice: she’s been offered the VP slot by both parties’ leading candidates. When she receives an anonymous, unnerving threat that could destroy her promising career, she hires Peter Rena to investigate her past and figure out which side is threatening her and what they are threatening her with. As Rena digs through the senator’s seemingly squeaky-clean past, he must walk the tightrope between two parties at war with each other and with themselves, an electorate that is as restive as it has ever been, and a political culture that is as much driven by money as it is by ideology.

Why Civil Resistance Works

Why Civil Resistance Works
Author: Erica Chenoweth
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2011-08-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0231527489

For more than a century, from 1900 to 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts in achieving their stated goals. By attracting impressive support from citizens, whose activism takes the form of protests, boycotts, civil disobedience, and other forms of nonviolent noncooperation, these efforts help separate regimes from their main sources of power and produce remarkable results, even in Iran, Burma, the Philippines, and the Palestinian Territories. Combining statistical analysis with case studies of specific countries and territories, Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan detail the factors enabling such campaigns to succeed and, sometimes, causing them to fail. They find that nonviolent resistance presents fewer obstacles to moral and physical involvement and commitment, and that higher levels of participation contribute to enhanced resilience, greater opportunities for tactical innovation and civic disruption (and therefore less incentive for a regime to maintain its status quo), and shifts in loyalty among opponents' erstwhile supporters, including members of the military establishment. Chenoweth and Stephan conclude that successful nonviolent resistance ushers in more durable and internally peaceful democracies, which are less likely to regress into civil war. Presenting a rich, evidentiary argument, they originally and systematically compare violent and nonviolent outcomes in different historical periods and geographical contexts, debunking the myth that violence occurs because of structural and environmental factors and that it is necessary to achieve certain political goals. Instead, the authors discover, violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds.

The Black Arts

The Black Arts
Author: John Burton
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-05-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0316497037

From a campaign operative and former staff member for President Obama, this brilliant dissection of modern politics is the first book to explain how political opposition research is done -- and why it matters. In the vein of Michael Lewis' Liar's Poker and Mark Leibovich's This Town, Black Arts is the first-person narrative of a well-placed insider revealing the workings in a part of society that is as influential and powerful as it is unfamiliar. You'll meet irreverent trash-talking campaign hacks and ordinary citizens volunteering in the "Resistance," ride the ups and downs of an underdog Presidential campaign, and navigate through the fog generated by Trump's political machine. John Burton shares the nitty-gritty details of how he finds and disseminates information and along the way, tell stories -- some sobering, some hilarious -- that have never been publicly told. In our current moment of rising populism and distrust of institutions like "the media" and "the political establishment," the lack of knowledge about how these institutions work becomes the vacuum in which distrust and conspiracy theories flourish. By offering a crystal-clear account of exactly how political campaigns and journalists interact, Burton interrogates the "fake news" debate, showing that a certain strain of populism grows stronger when we don't understand how politics works. The Black Arts will empower the American people to participate in politics. Unafraid to "go low", The Black Arts describes in unforgettable detail what it takes to win an election. John Burton also has a powerful personal story. Growing up a black gay kid in working class Miami, he traced a path from the margins of our society through some of America's most elite institutions of education, influence, and power. Perhaps the unlikeliest of political operatives, John Burton is an outsider's insider.