A slick trade journal for professional campaigners, political consultants, and those running (or interested in running) for public office.
Unabashedly committed to candidate-packaging and -marketing, most of the articles are how-to pieces and interviews with successful practitioners. The ads are intriguing, and each issue’s
“directory of resources” (paid listings for PR firms, mailing-list brokers, fundraisers, computer specialists, etc.) seems like an essential tool. My favorite column is “Politics Across America”: local campaign stories rarely picked up by reporters outside the immediate locale.
C&E has an odd pricing policy: subscriptions cost 50% more than
