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NEWS & ANALYSIS: Aug. 3, 2011

CAMPAIGNS & ELECTIONS WEB EXCLUSIVE
Postal Service Woes Could Hit Direct Mail Vendors
Dropping Saturday mail delivery would save the U.S. Postal Service an estimated $3.1 billion a year, but could be a major hit for political direct mail firms, writes Justin Quittschreiber. Read the full article.

Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and Jon Huntsman
Romney, Bachmann and Huntsman
DEFICIT POLITICS
Most Republican Presidential Hopefuls Oppose Debt Deal
Courting the party's faithful, Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann and most other Republican candidates lined up against the debt-ceiling compromise. Only Jon M. Huntsman Jr., who served as President Obama's ambassador to China, expressed support for the deal.
>> New York Times
The Public's View: 'Disgusting ... Stupid'
From liberal Democrats to tea-party Republicans, there is broad public consensus that the budget negotiations of recent weeks can be summed up in words such as "ridiculous," "disgusting," "stupid" and "frustrating."
>> Pew Research Center for the People & the Press
Will the Debt Fight Shape the Battles of 2012?
As messy and ugly as the battle to lift the debt ceiling was, it also has been a clarifying moment--one that could define the terms of engagement of the 2012 election.
>> Washington Post

A recall ad targeting Wisconsin Sen. Alberta Darling
A recall ad targets Republican
Wisconsin Sen. Alberta Darling
RECALL FEVER
In Wisconsin's Ad Deluge,
Signs of a 2012 Onslaught

A deluge of political advertising in Wisconsin this summer to sway the largest wave of state recall elections in U.S. history may be a harbinger of a partisan onslaught in the 2012 national elections. About 50 outside groups have so far spent between $5 million and $6 million on ads to influence party control of the Wisconsin Senate.
>> Reuters

THE REMAP
Redistricting May Stretch into 2013
Think redistricting will be over next year? Think again. There's a possibility that several key states will go into overtime, with lawsuits dragging the process past the 2012 elections. Texas and Florida are likely to have the most controversial and litigious maps.
>> Roll Call

DEMOGRAPHICS
For Hispanic Republicans, Big Electoral Gains
More Latino Republicans are running for state and local offices--and winning. Since 2006, the number of Hispanic Democratic officeholders has shrunk by nearly 2 percent, while the number of Hispanic Republicans in office has increased by 22.5 percent.
>> National Public Radio
DNC's First Presidential Ad Aims to Lure Latinos
The Democratic National Committee's first advertisement of the presidential election is a Spanish-language television spot signaling that both parties see Latinos as potential kingmakers in 2012.
>> Wall Street Journal

Los Angeles city council President Eric Garcetti
Eric Garcetti
THE LOCAL SCENE
Want to Be Mayor? Play One on TV.
Like most aspiring actors in Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti has a day job: president of the city council. But he is openly pondering a run for mayor, and stints portraying the city's chief executive on TNT's crime drama "The Closer" have given Garcetti a prime-time, national stage on which to look mayoral.
>> New York Times
Houston Mayor Raking in Campaign Cash
Houston Mayor Annise Parker has more than doubled her campaign account to more than $2.3 million, intensifying pronouncements that the door is closing on credible threats to her re-election.
>> Houston Chronicle

THE PRIMARY GAME
Will Arizona Scramble the Primary Calendar?
Arizona could upend the 2012 presidential-primary calendar if Gov. Jan Brewer carries through with a plan to move the state's presidential-preference election to Jan. 31, possibly prompting the traditionally early states of Iowa and New Hampshire to hold their contests before Christmas.
>> Arizona Republic

New Mexico Secretary of State Dianna Duran
Dianna Duran
VOTING
In New Mexico, a Partisan Flap
over Illegal-Voting Claims

New Mexico's Republican secretary of state, Dianna Duran, is taking fire from Democrats and others who say she has overstated her case on illegal voting and object to her use of the state police to examine 64,000 voter-registration records.
>> Los Angeles Times
Of All Places, Voter ID in Rhode Island?
Rhode Island, where the legislature is dominated by Democrats, would seem the last place where a voter-ID law would be enacted. How did it happen?
>> Governing

TECHNOLOGY
Software Aids a Referendum Petition Drive
A Maryland state lawmaker's effort to repeal a law allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-state tuition rates at public colleges will go to a statewide vote next year, thanks in part to software that avoids the risk of signatures being rejected on legal technicalities.
>> Washington Post
California Aims to Enable Texting of Contributions
California's Fair Political Practices Commission--the state's political watchdog--is moving toward allowing people to text campaign contributions to candidates and causes.
>> Los Angeles Times
County Tests Web-Based Election Management
Organizing election operations could become a little easier for Anoka County, Minn., if a trial run of a new Web-based election-management application goes as planned.
>> Government Technology

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IN THE MAGAZINE
When Things Go Wrong
Mark Ruggiero reviews a new book on handling the media in a crisis. John Zogby explores Obama's enthusiasm deficit, and the Campaign Doc serves up wisdom on online voting, the birther issue and what to do when your not-so-bright opponent is killing you in the polls.

QUOTABLE
Giffords greets her House colleagues
Giffords greets colleagues
"She said, 'Flake!' and I gave her
a hug.
"
U.S. Rep. Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona and friend of Democratic Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, describing their encounter as Giffords made her first appearance on the floor of the House, for Monday's debt-ceiling vote, since she was severely wounded by a gunman in January
>> Arizona Republic

Tony Fabrizio
Tony Fabrizio
"He's a straight shooter. If he was a physician and you had a disease and you were going to die, his answer would be: 'You know, you're going to die.'"
Florida's Republican governor, Rick Scott, on pollster and Scott strategist Tony Fabrizio, who Scott insiders point to as the brains behind Scott's improbable transformation from a political unknown
>> Miami Herald

"The initial is especially meaningful to me because my favorite fictional hero is Zorro, who splendidly carved a Z to mark the scenes of his good works."
Texas state Sen. Judith Zaffirini of Laredo, a Democrat known by friends and constituents simply as "Z," who agreed to remove her signature symbol from her campaign truck and rally signs after police in the border town warned that the symbol could cause the truck to be mistaken as a vehicle belonging to the deadly Zeta drug cartel
>> Reuters

DATAPOINTS
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus
Reince Priebus
Nearly $37 million
Amount raised from major donors in the first half of this year by the once-nearly bankrupt Republican National Committee, most of it since Reince Priebus took over as RNC chairman at the end of January and amounting to more than the RNC raised in all of 2009 and 2010 under its former chairman, Michael S. Steele
>> Washington Times

$1.19 million
Amount raised by U.S. Rep. Jared Polis of Colorado for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee for the 2009-10 campaign cycle, nearly matching the combined $1.2 million raised for the DCCC by the rest of the Democrats from his 2008 congressional class
>> Denver Post

$800,000-$1 million
Cost to Oregon taxpayers for a special primary and general election to replace U.S. Rep. David Wu, the Portland Democrat who is resigning in the wake of allegations that he had an "aggressive and unwanted sexual encounter" with a teenage girl
>> Portland Oregonian

RESOURCES
Guidance from the FEC
The Federal Election Commission has posted new supplements updating its campaign guides for congressional candidates and committees; corporations and labor organizations; nonconnected committees; and political-party committees. To download the original guides and the July 2011 supplements, click here.
 
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Italy, under market attack, seeks EU political support
LUXEMBOURG/ROME (Reuters) - Italy sought European political support on Wednesday as its stocks and bonds gained some respite from a selloff triggered by the euro zone's unresolved debt crisis and fears of a global economic slowdown. | Full Article
Private sector added 114,000 jobs in July
August 03, 2011 08:47 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private employers added more jobs than expected in July, though less than in June, but planned layoffs rose to a 16-month high, according to separate surveys on Wednesday. | Full Article
World's private sector falters as debt crisis bites
August 03, 2011 09:00 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - The world's economy moved closer to stagnation last month as firms in Asia and Europe reined back in the face of an ongoing debt crisis and signs of a new U.S. slowdown, business surveys showed on Wednesday. | Full Article
Default avoided but fears on economy remain
August 03, 2011 08:52 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States stepped back from the brink of default on Tuesday but congressional approval of a last-ditch deficit-cutting plan failed to dispel fears of a credit downgrade and future tax and spending feuds. | Full Article
MasterCard profit jumps 33 percent
August 03, 2011 09:31 AM ET
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - MasterCard Inc's second-quarter profit rose a better-than-expected 33 percent as the company processed more card transactions and revenue increased. | Full Article
BUSINESS NEWS
Stocks set to bounce after selloff, ADP
August 03, 2011 09:05 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street equity futures were set for a higher open on Wednesday as buyers looked to halt the market's longest losing streak since October 2008 after a better-than-expected reading on the labor market. | Full Article
Mortgage applications rose last week: MBA
August 03, 2011 07:01 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Applications for U.S. home mortgages rose last week as interest rates fell, an industry group said on Wednesday. | Full Article
Comcast profit up on Web subscribers, ad sales
August 03, 2011 08:29 AM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Comcast Corp's quarterly earnings beat Wall Street expectations on a better-than-expected rise in Internet and phone subscribers and advertising sales growth at its NBC Universal joint venture. | Full Article
SNB cuts rates as safe-haven Swiss franc soars
August 03, 2011 07:55 AM ET
ZURICH (Reuters) - The Swiss National Bank announced a shock cut in interest rates and threatened more action to cap a soaring Swiss franc, but was seen fighting a losing battle as investors seek respite from debt crises elsewhere. | Full Article
Chrysler CEO: Industry faces reckoning with China
August 03, 2011 09:20 AM ET
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan (Reuters) - U.S. and European automakers better watch their rear-view mirrors as competition from Chinese rivals will result in a "day of reckoning" down the road, the head of Fiat SpA and Chrysler Group LLC said on Wednesday. | Full Article
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