The Permanent Campaign
This is the archive page for The Permanent Campaign, which is no longer actively sending. Sarah Isgur, a veteran of national campaigns and the hard-knocks world of political communications, provided insight into strategy and mechanics of political campaigns with some behind-the-scenes flavor along the way.
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The Sweep: Why Insurgents Win
Plus: Glenn Youngkin locks up the Republican nomination in the race for Virginia governor.
The Sweep: How McCain-Feingold Ruined Everything
Plus: Mike Pence tries to get his 2024 train rolling.
The Sweep: According to Their Respective Numbers
The census, College Republicans, a Texas special election, and Ohio Democrats.
The Sweep: Rock, Paper, Partisan Voter Index
Plus: Reverse coattails and the early goings-on in Missouri's 2022 Senate race.
The Sweep: The Eyes of Texas Are Upon the 6th District
Plus: Taxing and spending in the leadup to 2022.
The Sweep: The Eyes of Texas Are Upon the 6th District
Plus: Taxing and spending in the leadup to 2022.
The Sweep: Was Trump Good for the GOP?
Plus, the off-off-year gubernatorial elections in New Jersey and Virginia.
The Mop-Up, with Gabe Sterling
'We can’t be making public policy based on essentially lie after lie after lie that had been done for partisan reasons.'
The Sweep: The GOP’s Retirement Community
Plus: Some very partisan bills to overhaul our election processes.
The Sweep: Coast-to-Coast
From California’s recall effort against Governor Newsom to the race to succeed Mayor Bill de Blasio in New York.
The Mop-Up, with Lanhee Chen
'I think our society and our politics are better for it when there is that substance because, fundamentally, I want elections to be about ideas.'