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Running and Hiding From Media, Mark Kirk Blowing Illinois Senate Race

by Gordon Hensley | Jun 22, 2010 | Campaign 2010, GOP Politics, Media Relations | 0 comments

Just several months ago, Illinois GOP Senate candidate, Rep. Mark Kirk, was flying high — and a solid front runner to win Barack Obama’s Senate seat while Democrat Alexi Giannoulias was being dogged by a family banking scandal. Giannoulias still has severe...

New National Poll on Grateful Dead: Even Republicans Like Them

by Gordon Hensley | Jun 16, 2010 | GOP Politics, Uncategorized | 0 comments

The results of a recent Mark Mellman survey on public attitudes surrounding the Grateful Dead — where even Republicans give the band a higher favorable than unfavorable rating — was reported today on Tucker Carlson’s Daily Caller website. Tucker saw...

Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Road to Political Oblivion

by Gordon Hensley | Mar 6, 2010 | Campaign 2010, GOP Politics | 0 comments

As Clayton Williams’ press secretary during the 1990 campaign for governor against Ann Richards, I flew around Texas with the candidate on many an occasion accompanied by a variety of surrogates. Kay Bailey Hutchison, then State Treasurer, was enormously...

Michael Steele: The Antithesis of Haley Barbour as RNC Chairman

by Gordon Hensley | Jan 5, 2010 | GOP Politics | 0 comments

Among other tone deaf offenses rooted in self-aggrandizement, RNC Chairman Michael Steele recently decided to collect speaking fees when out on the hustings on the rubber-chicken circuit. This is highly unusual, unseemly, and unprecedented for a chairman of either...
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