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The Bush camp is exulting in the president’s victory over John Kerry on Tuesday. While Bush himself hasn’t come right out and said it, Vice President Dick Cheney and several others have: the election is a “mandate” which the president plans to use to aggressively pursue his policies.

The mandate, according to Cheney and others, comes from the fact that George W. Bush garnered more…

So bloggers blew it on election day. According to a commentary by Steve Rosenbush at BusinessWeek, blowing a story isn’t the unique province of bloggers. “Young bloggers and aging ink-stained wretches with cigarette burns on their faded tweed sport jackets have all missed and mishandled their share of stories,” Rosenbush writes. But bloggers, he says, are now part of the “media food chain.”

There are…

There was speculation this morning from CBS Marketwatch’s Frank Barnako that bloggers could start leaking exit poll results before polls closed. Whether these leaks have had an impact on the election is an open question, but they have had an effect on the financial markets. According to Reuters, blogs speculating that John Kerry was leading in key swing states sent the Dow…

CBS Marketwatch ‘s Frank Barnako warns that bloggers could leak exit poll results well ahead of major news organizations. “With inside sources and a willingness to pass along rumors, Webloggers are likely to be where confidential information from about polling, lawsuits and vote counts appear first.”

Barnako’s piece features the transcript of an interview with Blogads founder Henry Copeland, who notes that bloggers will be…

One of the plusses about working in public relations is that our job is predicated on the notion of building relationships with audiences. Some advertisers, it seems, are bent on doing as much damage as possible to those relationships, if they existed in the first place. The latest bonehead move from the advertising world (not surprisingly, a political ad) is…

Factiva, the news content company from Dow Jones and Reuters, has introduced four RSS feeds that aggregate coverage of key presidential campaign issues. The campaign coverage offers four panes, each listing an issue: Jobs & Economy, Health Care, War in Iraq, and Budget & Taxes. The headlines in each pane are updated regularly. But for those with news readers, an RSS…