Archive for December, 2007

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30Dec07

Catch Keli on CNN’s “Reliable Sources” at 10:30 AM EST and at 10PM EST on CNN for a year end look at political highlights of 2007. 


By: Keli Goff 
In the last 7 years nearly all of us have done it, at least once. Have asked ourselves the inevitable question “what if?” As in what if the 2000 election had turned out differently?

It’s almost impossible to remember so far way back when, to a time when Barack Obama was to most Americans [...]


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24Dec07

Catch Keli on “Studio B with Shepard Smith” on the FOX News Channel today at 3:30pm EST. Happy Holidays!


By: Keli Goff 
Today, former Senator Bob Kerrey said, “I’m sorry.” In doing so, he continued a long tradition of politicians saying those two magic words when they get themselves into trouble. Politicians have apologized for every infraction you could possibly imagine (and some you can’t): taking a bribe, having a drug or alcohol problem, committing [...]


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19Dec07

Catch Keli on “The Live Desk with Martha MacCallum” on FOX News Channel at 1pm EST.


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14Dec07

Keli to appear on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the FOX News Channel today at 4pm EST. 


By: Keli Goff
ELECTABILITY. It’s the word that pundits and pollsters get paid to obsess over. More than experience or qualifications, it is the magic word that determines which candidates win and which ones don’t. Its actual meaning is about as elusive as the word “chemistry,” as in when you hear critics say, “Julia Roberts and [...]


By: Keli Goff

In a piece that appeared in the International Herald Tribune in 2005, Deborah Sontag wrote, “Despite dire predictions that America’s streets would be awash in military-style guns, the expiration of the decade-long assault weapons ban in September has not set off a sustained surge in the weapons’ sales, gun makers and sellers say. [...]


Why Clinton Can’t Afford to Attack Obama
(And Why She Can’t Afford Not To)
By: Keli Goff 

In the film “Presumed Innocent” Harrison Ford portrays a district attorney accused of murdering a colleague. He hires one of his longtime legal adversaries, portrayed by the late Raul Julia, to defend him. When it becomes clear that the trial is [...]


By: Keli Goff 
As I have touched upon in this blog before, political strategists and pundits just love labels. They take comfort in being able to lump voters into convenient categories that allow them to make safe (although often not entirely accurate) generalizations. Each election cycle they then talk about these various voter groups in the [...]