A lot of smart people were wrong about this election. The poll-takers blew it. The talking heads didn’t see it coming. But if they had seen what I saw last month, they might have smelled it coming. Looking for Help…

If you are running for office, or plan to someday, there are valuable lessons in the events of the past few days. Today, some thoughts on preempting, avoiding, and dealing with an October surprise. Looking for Help in Your Campaign?…

Running for office of the Presidency, should victory visit Hillary Clinton’s door it shall not come bearing a mandate for a grand new vision or bold new policy direction. Looking for Help in Your Campaign? Call Jay at (845) 458-1210. The call…

In this series we’ve been talking about ways to crawl out of a hole when running for office. Using a debate to change the narrative, becoming a more disciplined candidate, and in the case of Ronald Reagan, offering a compelling…

I am old enough to remember the Presidential campaign of 1980. The talking heads and elites said the Republican candidate running for office was dangerously flawed, unqualified, ill-informed, naïve and prone to dangerous gaffs. Looking for Help in Your Campaign?…

In a previous video we discussed ways a candidate, running for office, going through a difficult time could crawl out of a hole, and I used Donald Trump as an example…how he overcame a polling slump by becoming a more…

If you are running for office, or plan to run for office some day, there is a lesson about how to handle a stupid mistake, an affair, bad judgment, a scandal, or an embarrassment in your past. Looking for Help…

This Module is about spreading your campaign message through social media, internet ads, telephone calls, yard signs and volunteers when running for office. All of these tools are very important to what we call your ground game. In a competitive…

Last week, I offered some tips on how to keep your volunteer workforce operating like an efficient, highly tuned machine while running for office. Today, I will share some tips on how to keep your campaign volunteers happy, and coming…