Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Hiring? What Works: Fresh blood or old hands? Experience or Novicity?

  Published: September 5, 2007, 3:45 am

  Tags: Analytics, Customer Satisfaction, Leadership, Marketing Tips, Voice Of Customer, Web Analytics, Web Metrics, Advanced Analytics, Web Insights, Usability, Search Engine Marketing, Business Analyst Requirements, Hiring Web Analysts, Qualifications In Web Analysts, Web An

  A reader of the blog had a interesting question that made me think about the value of experience, or the value of “having been around for a while”, vs the value of pure passion and excitement and moldability. I get lots of wonderful email every day with delightful questions, this one made me think harder. Here is the actual excerpted

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• Unfair this Missal

  Published: September 28, 2007, 11:16 am

  Tags: Religion, Qualifications, Monarchy, Injustice, United Kingdom, Belfast, Photo

  Religion, qualifications, monarchy, injustice, United Kingdom, Belfast,

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• Dobson-Huckabee Endorsement Watch

  Published: November 13, 2007, 9:04 am

  Tags: Political Strategy, Candidate Qualifications, Electability

  According to The Prowler, sources close to James Dobson are insisting that a Huckabee endorsement is imminent, and is to be unveiled in Iowa. We've expressed skepticism about such an endorsement, but for the sake of discussion, let's assume it actually takes place. Where would we be? First, Huckabee would be established as the

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• Bill to Expand Head Start, Bolster Its Teacher Qualifications Is Approved

  Published: November 15, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Bill, Expand, Head, Start, Bolster, Its, Teacher, Qualifications, Approved, Edward M Kennedy, George W Bush, Virginia, Washington Dc, John Boehner, Kathy Patterson, Tim Kaine, Pre K Now

  With two overwhelming votes, Congress approved a bill yesterday that would boost teacher qualifications in federally funded Head Start preschools, expand access to the program for children from low-income families and scrap a controversial system for testing 4-year-olds.

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• Push Polling — The Latest

  Published: November 17, 2007, 10:28 am

  Tags: Political Strategy, Questions, Religious Bigotry, Candidate Qualifications

  There is little new information on the anti-Mormon push polling story out of Iowa and New Hampshire.  But there has been much written, and much of it worth attention.  Because of how hot this story is we are going to present those writings here in simple link/bullet format.  We'll save the analysis and commentary for Monday.

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• Push Polling - Anything New?

  Published: November 18, 2007, 9:39 am

  Tags: Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry, Candidate Qualifications, Electability, News Media Bias

  Really there isn't, but a few more stories have appeared and we want to keep our research complete. The Huffington Post tried to pass on the Romney did it ridiculousness, thus pointing a finger at a lefty 527.  Larry Kudlow discusses his interview with Romney on Friday.  This is essentially the same stuff he addressed on Hewitt, but

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• Peggy Noonan on The Question

  Published: November 24, 2007, 1:39 pm

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, Electability, Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry

  Just yesterday Peggy Noonan weighed in on The Question. I think she is pitch-perfect. Some excerpts: [W]e have come to an odd pass regarding candidates and their faith. It’s not as if faith is unimportant, it’s always important. But we are asking our political figures–mere flawed politicians–to put forward and talk

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• The Speech, And Nothing But The Speech (UPDATED IV)

  Published: December 3, 2007, 9:43 am

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, Electability, News Media Bias, Political Strategy, The Speech, Understanding Religion

  It is being widely acknowledged that with the announcement of a speech on religion, Romney has effectively sucked all the air out of the political coverage room for the week. There is so much coverage and discussion that we are going to change our routine a bit to try and to keep our readers as up to date as possible. You can find our initial

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• Considering The Speech (UPDATED II)

  Published: December 4, 2007, 9:42 am

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, Electability, Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry, The Speech, Understanding Religion

  Coverage of this Thursday’s impending speech remains massive, but at this point repetitive and lacking insight. We will see what the day holds. As yesterday, keep your eyes peeled on the blue box in the sidebar which will act as a sort of “ticker” linking to almost everything we find written about the speech. We will update

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• Speech Reaction Commentary

  Published: December 6, 2007, 4:24 pm

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, News Media Bias, Political Strategy, The Speech

  I find myself with some time in the airport prior to returning to sunny SoCal so I have done a quick read through of the reaction pieces. You will find almost all of them listed, as we have done all week, in the blue box in the sidebar. Though not available at press time for this post, the video of the speech will appear in “Straight From

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• The Reaction Keeps Rolling

  Published: December 7, 2007, 6:00 pm

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, Issues, News Media Bias, Political Strategy, The Speech

  I am fairly sure that no speech ever given by a candidate before a single primary vote has even been cast has ever received anywhere near this amount of coverage and commentary. It’s extraordinary. As has been true all week, the blue box at right is a “ticker” of sorts for you to follow most of what is worth reading and in this

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• Yes, There Are More Reaction Pieces

  Published: December 8, 2007, 10:49 am

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, Electability, Issues, Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry, The Speech, Understanding Religion

  OK, for regular readers, this week should have demonstrated the REAL reason we have argued against a speech - trying to do this blog’s task this week has been overwhelming. (Please remember Lowell and I, and those that help us - Sonja, Dale, Asher - have “day jobs” that pay actual bills.) [Lowell: Well, we used to, at

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• “Context” Just Won’t Cut It

  Published: December 12, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, Political Strategy, Religious Bigotry

  In their press release attempting to exonerate Huckabee from his outrageous comments regarding Mormon beliefs, the campaign said: In fact, the full context of the exchange makes it clear that Governor Huckabee was illustrating his unwillingness to answer questions about Mormonism and to avoid addressing theological questions during this campaign.

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• Krauthammer Cries ‘No Mas’

  Published: December 15, 2007, 9:44 am

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, Doctrinal Obedience, Issues, Political Strategy, The Speech, Understanding Religion, Amazing Grace, Article Vi, Charles Krauthammer, George Will, Mike Huckabee, Mitt Romney, Tocqueville

  Charles Krauthammer wrote a column yesterday that said everybody was dipping too deeply into the well of religiousity this election cycle. This campaign is knee-deep in religion, and it’s only going to get worse. I’d thought that the limits of professed public piety had already been achieved during the Republican CNN/YouTube debate

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• The Ideal and The Practical

  Published: January 10, 2008, 8:15 pm

  Tags: Candidate Qualifications, News Media Bias, Questions, Religious Bigotry

  Earlier Today, Lowell Quoted Jonathon Martin analyzing Michigan: Huck poses two problems for Romney. First, his vote share of the conservative base of the party particularly in western Michigan could come out of Romney’s hide. The conservative Catholics, evangelicals and Dutch Reformed members some of whom first came to the

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