Advocacy Groups May Reshape Message During Holidays

(Blog Post) The Senate debate on health care, set to begin the week after Thanksgiving, is now on course to collide with the holiday season. One question for advocacy groups on all sides will be whether to keep up their barrage of pointed commercials, even as chestnuts roast and stockings are hung. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Nov 22, 2009 - 9:33 AM PST
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Nov 22, 2009 - 9:35 AM PST
Fabrice Florin
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by Fabrice Florin - Nov. 22, 2009

Interesting article about the challenges faced by health care advocates looking to influence the debate in Congress in the middle of the holiday season.

My Quality Tags: Interesting, informative, surprising, reasonable.

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Kaizar Campwala
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by Kaizar Campwala - Nov. 22, 2009

An interesting story in concept, this piece doesn't really do a good job of forecasting what how we can expect the debate to change because of the holidays.

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Nov. 22, 2009

A mildly interesting look at holiday advertizing tactics regarding health care. Nothing on the merits of the bills. There is an interesting tid-bit that the Chamber has spent double what progressives have spent, and that seems not to include some corporate expenditures.

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