The Permanent Campaign

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"The Permanent Campaign" was written by Norman J. Ornstein and Amy S. Mitchell.

This article appeared first in The World & I, in January 1997.

Norman Ornstein is regarded as one of our nation's foremost experts on Congress.

Mr. Ornstein received a Ph.D.. from the University of Michigan, he writes for the New

York Times, USA Today, Washington Post, and he has a regular column in Roll Call

newspaper called "Congress Inside Out". Mr. Ornstein is also an election analyst for

CBS and appears frequently on television shows including the Today Show, Nightline

and the Mac Neil/Lehre News Hour where he has been a consultant and contributor for

Mr. Ornstein is a Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute for Public

Policy Research and is also an advisor and member of the Free TV for Straight Talk

coalition. The coalition is a group of 80 leaders from the worlds of politics, corporations,

broadcast journalism, the entertainment industry and public interest groups. They

support giving political candidates free air time on TV to promote their political views

without the media's input. He has authored or co-authored recent books such as How We

Can Get Out of It, Debt and Taxes: How America Go


era political campaigning was considered undignified.

our government. While it is great that we know more about our candidates than we ever

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How did we go from being a country that denounced any campaigning at all to

campaigning to one in which candidates start campaigning for seats that haven't even

political party wanted them to vote for. This seems to me to not convey the spirit of

After the riot at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968 reforms



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