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During the semester, I shall post course material and students will comment on it. Students are also free to comment on any aspect of the presidency, either current or historical. There are only two major limitations: no coarse language, and no derogatory comments about people at the Claremont Colleges.

The course syllabus is at
http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/pages/faculty/JPitney/gov102-14.html

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Friday, September 12, 2008

Negative Campaigning, 1800

Okay, the 1800 election did not have TV ads. But the script for this video comes almost verbatim from a Federalist attack on Jefferson.

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