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	Political campaign - Open Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Campaigning on specific issues is related to lobbying and propaganda but is distinguished from the first by the involvement of mass action and the second by the fact that it is limited in scope and acts within the constitutional system.
		The ideal of the campaign for the numbers of people involved, the media presence, the funds available, the hours worked by volunteers and the number of people reached by the message to increase rapidly and to keep increasing until the goal of the campaign is reached.
		Modern election campaigns in the US Political campaigns in the United States are not merely a civic ritual and occasion for political debate, but a multi-billion industry, dominated by professional political consultants using sophisticated campaign management tools, to an extent far greater than elsewhere in the world.
	open-encyclopedia.com /Political_campaign (1672 words)

	Midlothian, Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Midlothian (Meadhan Lodainn in Gaelic) is one of 32 unitary council regions in Scotland, and a Lieutenancy Area.
		There is a Midlothian constituency of the Scottish Parliament and a Midlothian constituency of the House of Commons.
		William Gladstone was MP for Midlothian 1880-1895 and conducted his famous Midlothian campaign across the county in 1880.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Midlothian,_Scotland (140 words)

	Midlothian campaign -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Midlothian campaign was a series of (A policy governing international relations) foreign policy speeches given by (Liberal British statesman who served as prime minister four times (1809-1898)) William Gladstone.
		It takes its name from the (additional info and facts about Midlothian) Midlothian district in (One of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; located on the northern part of the island of Great Britain; famous for bagpipes and plaids and kilts) Scotland.
		Equally important to the large scale of attendance at these meetings (several thousand came to each, and given the relatively narrow scale of the franchise, this meant Gladstone could address a large proportion of electors in each district) was the widespread reporting of Gladstone's speeches and the public reaction to them.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mi/midlothian_campaign.htm (331 words)

	Encyclopedia: Political campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Some examples of political campaigns are: the effort to execute or banish Socrates from Athens in the 5th century BCE, the uprising of petty nobility against John of England in the 13th century, or the recent push to remove Michael Eisner from the helm of The Walt Disney Company.
		A poltical campaigner (or political activist) is someone (generally not a politician) involved in politicial campaigning, that is, lobbying the government and politicians on political issues (such as the environment) and encouraging other citizens to do the same.
		Recent election campaign Methods in the US Political campaigns in the United States are not merely a civic ritual and occasion for political debate, but a multi-billion dollar industry, dominated by professional political consultants using sophisticated campaign management tools, to an extent far greater than elsewhere in the world.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Political-campaign (4316 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Scotland - Edinburgh - Midlothian unites in road tolls opposition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Thousands of leaflets and car stickers were sent to Midlothian residents and businesses urging them to voice their opposition to the road tolls, which could be in place across the city as early as 2005.
		Midlothian Council is furious that its residents will have to pay a £2 toll to get into the city while drivers living within the city limits, but outside an outer cordon, will not have to pay a penny.
		Midlothian Council is expected to consider the 800 responses alongside a further report on road tolls before making their formal response to the official consultation, which ends next month.
	news.scotsman.com /edinburgh.cfm?id=1388462003 (817 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh - Row over taxpayers' cash used in tolls fight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		AN anti-road tolls campaign by Midlothian Council may be investigated by local authority watchdogs over its use of public money.
		Mr Baxter said: "Midlothian Council is spending £6000 of taxpayers’ money on this venture and claims their literature is merely informing people of the consultation exercise under way.
		Mr Baxter wrote to Midlothian Council, asking it to destroy the leaflets and bring a halt to the campaign, but it refused.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /edinburgh.cfm?id=1281532003 (699 words)

	Midlothian SNP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Ewart Gladstone came up to Scotland for two weeks at the end of November 1879 and began the most famous election campaign of the nineteenth century.
		Midlothian constituency was geographically much larger in those days, and included for example parts of Edinburgh and took in West Calder.
		The first election ever contested by a Scottish independence party was in Midlothian in 1928.
	www.kevingreig.co.uk /midlothiansnp/history.htm (200 words)

	Midlothian Rural Schools Action Group - Changes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The campaign has been underway since 2002 and they are currently taking their council to the high court for a judicial review and are even getting legal aid.
		The campaign issues page now has a series of documents, reports, letters and responses that were submitted to Midlothian Council in support of the campaign.
		We want the council to provide the improved schools that Midlothian needs, but we want the rural schools to be removed from their proposals and a separate programme formed to address any rural school and community issues.
	www.theblackcat.co.uk /mrsag/changes.html (4113 words)

	Media & Politics
		A demonstrated effect of negative campaigning is that while it motivates the base of support it tends to alienate centrist and undecided voters from the political process reducing voter turnout and radicalizing politics.
		Politicians are often the targets of smear campaigns by their opponents but the motives for engaging in smear tactics are many and varied, including personal, financial or even at trial as a tactic to undermine the credibility of a witness.
		In particular, he was largely responsible for the creation of an official campaign blog, and the use of Meetup.com and other social networking technologies to connect supporters, both innovations widely utilized today by other social and political campaigns.
	www.mediumismessage.com /MP.htm (15157 words)

	Gladstone's Midlothian Campaigns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1880 he successfully contested the Midlothian constituency, winning it for the Liberals from the Tories.
		The Midlothian Campaigns refer to Gladstone's approach to the hustings in 1879 and 1880 in which he travelled around Scotland on the "stump" attacking Disraeli's foreign policy at a series of mass public meetings - quite a novel idea in the early years of widespread male adult suffrage.
		The text of the Midlothian Campaign diaries can be found here.
	www.macs.hw.ac.uk /~nkt/midlothian/people/gladston.sht (114 words)

	frontline: blair's war: the prime minister: better angels - kosovo war \| PBS
		The need of the moment was his single-handed campaign to influence American opinion in favour of a more vigorous conduct of the war, a campaign which he launched in the city which had been at the heart of US isolationism in the years before the Second World War.
		Although it was a speech of the moment, it was, unusually, not written on the plane or finished at five o'clock on the morning it was delivered.
		Of course, there were parallels between the moral populism of Blair and Gladstone, who in the Midlothian campaign curdled the blood of the Liberal electorate with tales of Turkish atrocities against Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/blair/prime/better.html (2622 words)

	Political_campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Examples of political campaigns are: the effort to execute or banish Socrates from Athens in the 5th century BC, the uprising of petty nobility against John of England in the13th century, or the recent push to remove Michael Eisner from the helm of Disney.
		Successful campaigns usually require a campaign manager and a treasurer who along with a candidate make the strategic decisions.
		This can involve 'joining' the campaign, donating money, doing voluntary work, writing letters to the media, voting in a particular way, and generally proselytising for the cause.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Political_campaign (1793 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 - This Sceptred Isle - Gladstone Returns
		His campaign was called The Midlothian Campaign and it was the first time a Party leader would take his message to the electorate as politicians do today.
		Then there was the whizz and rip of the assegais, of which I had experience during the Kaffir Campaign.
		We had plenty of ammunition, but we were told to save it and so we took careful aim at every shot, and hardly a cartridge was wasted.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/sceptred_isle/page/164.shtml?question=164 (587 words)

	LIBERAL PARTY (UK) FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He formally resigned as Liberal leader and was succeeded by the Marquess of Hartington, but he soon changed his mind and returned to active politics.
		He was appalled by Disraeli's pro-Ottoman foreign policy and during 1880 he conducted the first modern outdoor mass election campaign in Britain, known as the Midlothian_campaign.
		Since the House of Lords no longer had the power to block the bill, the Unionists, led by Sir Edward_Carson, launched a campaign of opposition that included the threat of armed resistance in Ulster, and by 1914 threatened to lead to a mutiny by army officers in Ireland (see Ulster_crisis).
	www.flowergods.com /Liberal_Party_(UK) (3964 words)

	Midlothian Council
		Midlothian Active Lifestyle Campaign aims to encourage Midlothian residents to become physically active and adopt a healthy lifestyle by providing opportunities and information on how to Be Active.
		Midlothian Ageing Well Project seeks to maintain and improve the health of over 50's using the knowledge and skills of older people themsleves.
		Explore a range of activities for young people in Midlothian this summer.
	www.midlothian.gov.uk /Topic.aspx?TopicId=63 (76 words)

	Ken Stott - Save Our Hearts campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Ken Stott is a life-long Jambo and has joined the campaign to save his team from extinction...
		Heart of Midlothian Football Club was established in 1874 and it's home is at TyneCastle, Edinburgh.
		On Thursday 4th March 2004, the Federation of Hearts Supporters Clubs and the Heart of Midlothian Supporters Trust launched 'Save Our Hearts', a campaign to raise funds to purchase shares in Heart of Midlothian Football Club in order that Hearts fans can play a major part in securing the future of the Club.
	www.kenstott.info /save_our_hearts.htm (1339 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Health - Pupils taking steps to show the benefits of walking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		YOUNGSTERS are being urged to walk to school as part of a health campaign in Midlothian.
		Councillor Jim Muirhead, spokesman for transport at Midlothian Council, said: "Walking to school occasionally has been proven to improve health, but will also help the environment because there will be fewer cars on the road during the school run.
		Twenty-eight local primary schools and nurseries are participating in the scheme in its second year in Midlothian, involving around 6000 pupils between the ages of three and 11.
	news.scotsman.com /health.cfm?id=2001822005 (426 words)

	Press - Liberal Democrat Spring Conference - Edinburgh 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is to launch our campaigns for May 6th and June 10th.
		Jim, I am proud to be here tonight campaigning with you for the Scottish Parliament you and I have fought for together for so long.
		Starting today - starting tonight - our job is to campaign for the new kind of politics that we have done so much to create, as we have never campaigned before.
	www.edinburgh99.scotlibdems.org.uk /press/pr001.htm (830 words)

	Politics \| How to stir up apathy
		Its campaign had style and glitter, but the party was not seen as a credible alternative to a government that was respected if not loved.
		As a result, the election has been fought in a hermetically-sealed domestic bubble in which the parties operate like first world war armies, bombarding each other with salvoes of statistics and inching their way across the churned-up political battleground.
		The party's strategists seem to define the government in this campaign by highlighting the need for private sector management of the public sector, thereby deliberately antagonising the trade unions and the party's core supporters, rather than by accentuating the positive.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4193771-107865,00.html (1183 words)

	Liberal_Party_(UK)
		He was appalled by Disraeli's pro-Ottoman foreign policy and during 1880 he conducted the first modern outdoor mass election campaign in Britain, known as the Midlothian campaign.
		With many traditional domestic Liberal policies now regarded as irrelevant, he focused the part on opposition to both the rise of Fascism in Europe and the appeasement foreign policy of the British government, arguing that intervention was needed, in contrast to the Labour calls for pacifism.
		Despite the party's weaknesses, Sinclair gained a high profile as he sought to recall the Midlothian Campaign and once more revitalise the Liberals as the party of a strong foreign policy.
	www.tuxedo-shop.com /search.php?title=Liberal_Party_(UK) (3853 words)

	Broadsides to Brass Bands
		The first Midlothian brass band was first set up by the Duke of Buccleuch at his Dalkeith mines in 1843; he saw this as an alternative to a library, given that there was no suitable library building.
		The campaign was a series of mass rallies, modelled after the religious revival meetings of Sankey and Moody five years earlier.
		(The 1880 Midlothian campaign gave the world the word ³heckle²: it was originally used in the weaving industry, meaning to comb the dirt out of fibre, and got its political meaning as a result of the questioning Gladstone got from the textile workers in his audience).
	www.purr.demon.co.uk /dalkeith/C19/C19.htm (2176 words)

	Midlothian News
		She was murdered in her Midlothian home just before Christmas of 2000 by a man who professed to love her.
		The National Park Service says a Midlothian, Virginia man drowned off the Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge after he and his 3-year-old daughter were caught in a rip current.
		In response to Jeanne Minnix's Sept. 12, I agree with her, but the truth of the matter is the American people are so spoiled and greedy that they care more about what they want than they do about the cost of...
	www.topix.net /city/midlothian-va (1093 words)

	TRANSVAAL - LoveToKnow Article on TRANSVAAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In one speech, referring to Cyprus and the Transvaal, he said: If those acquisitions were as valuable as they are valueless, I would repudiate them, because they were obtained by means dishonourable to the character of our country.
		So keenly were the Midlothian speeches appreciated by the Boers that the Boer committee wrote a letter of thanks to Gladstone, and expressed the hope that should a change in the government of Great Britain occur, the injustice done to the Transvaal might find redress.
		Flirtation, juncture as a volatile, sanguine man, with visionary ideas of the important part Germany was to play in the future as the patron and ally of the South African Republic, and of the extent to which the Bismarckian policy might go in abetting an anti-British campaign.
	61.1911encyclopedia.org /T/TR/TRANSVAAL.htm (21716 words)

	Midlothian Wildcats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Wildcats finished off a very succesfull 2005 campaign with a 5th place finish at the AAU Nationals - 54' / 80' Division.
		The Wildcats were victorious over the eventual 4th place Lake Erie Baseball in Pool Play and lost in the championship round to 3rd place finisher Florida North Stars in a late innings rally.
		The 14U Midlothian Wildcats are entering their sixth year as a competitive travel team.
	eteamz.active.com /midlothianwildcats/index.cfm (261 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - WE Gladstone, Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland - Part One
		This role came to be shared between Lord Hartington in the Commons and Lord Granville in the Lords.
		He was successfully returned as the MP for Midlothian and was joined by his son Herbert who won his back-up seat of Leeds.
		A constituency where the vote was controlled by usually one wealthy benefactor or occasionally a group of concerned businessmen.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A757361 (1710 words)

	Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - William_Ewart_Gladstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born in Liverpool in 1809, William Ewart Gladstone was the fourth son of the merchant Sir John Gladstones and his second wife, Anne MacKenzie Robertson.
		In 1880 the Liberals won again, and the new Liberal leader Lord Hartington retired in Gladstone's favour.
		Gladstone won his constituency election in Midlothian and also in Leeds, where he had also been adopted as a candidate, only being able to serve as MP for one constituency Leeds was passed to his son Herbert.
	www.vaaltriangleinfo.co.za /wiki/index.php?title=William_Ewart_Gladstone (2237 words)

	Dalmeny House Edinburgh
		William Wilkins designed the two-storey Entrance Hall with a decorative hammer-beam ceiling similar to the one he later created for the Hall at King's College, Cambridge.
		The marble bust of Gladstone was made during the Midlothian election campaign of 1879 which returned him to power; the sculptor Boehm sat opposite Gladstone, one modelling while the other wrote his speeches.
		The five delightful tapestries of Spanish childhood scenes were designed by Francisco Goya for Spanish royal palaces and woven in 1800; except for a set owned by the Queen, they are the only such tapestries outside Spain.
	www.dalmeny.co.uk /visiting/hall.htm (96 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Top Stories - Row over taxpayers' cash used in tolls fight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is clear to anyone reading it that the objective is to convert people to Midlothian’s point of view."
		If upheld, it could lead to councillors being surcharged to recoup the costs.
		"The campaign also invites people to let Midlothian Council know their views, including whether they support congestion charging or not.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1281532003 (699 words)

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