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Marj Halperin spouts off as the Democratic analyst on WGN-TV's Morning News, and occasionally guest anchors on WXRT. Her consulting biz focuses on strategic communications and messaging: how to target your audience whether you want to make news or AVOID making news. She's done both, running political campaigns and working for various government agencies, businesses and non-profits.

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Do we really want to know what Obama ate on the campaign trail?

I'm not sure anyone did market research before publishing a book detailing the menus from various events on the...
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Obama's Notre Dame commencement speech promises to deliver a real education

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Be careful what you ask for might be the lesson learned by Notre Dame officials who touched off a firestorm of...
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Surviving the Purple Tunnel of Doom: what happened there?

As one of the thousands of people who held great tickets to the swearing-in but wasn't able to get inside, I am...
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Blago's Senate pick: will it stick? Advantage: Roland Burris

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When the smoke clears, you can expect Roland Burris to be Illinois' junior Senator, despite efforts on the state...
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What Obama would do about health care, if Rahm Emanuel's brother has a say

When it comes to health care, there's a loud voice ringing in the ear of Barack Obama's chief of staff, Rahm...
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Name Hillary Secretary of State? Yes, he can!

Good news: the national fascination with Hillary Clinton will continue for at least four more years. Politico.com...
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History making? Sure, but Obama's election will also rewrite the books on branding

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Brand analysts will spend the rest of Barack Obama's term--at least--chewing on the marketing meat of this...
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Election winners, losers (continued)

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Hate to dwell on the negative, but there were some real losers in this cycle. 1. Negative campaigning. I am not...
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The election's 3 winners, 3 losers on 3 hours sleep

No point in stating the obvious: we know who won and who lost elections last night--in most cases, anyway. But this election also shaped trends...
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The McCain blame game started early

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Even more distasteful to me than the negative smear ads that are hallmarks of the GOP campaign are reports of...
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