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	Opposition research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Opposition research often referred to as oppo is the section of an election campaign designed to investigate the life and record of the opposing candidate.
		Opposition research differs immensely depending on the size of the campaign.
		Research also tends to gather huge amounts of rumour and innuendo, some of which is true but much of which is not.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opposition_research (554 words)

	Society&Animal Forum - Society & Animals Journal
		The highest level of opposition to animal research was found in France, where 68% of the population either strongly disagreed or disagreed with the statement regarding the use of animals in scientific research.
		Opposition to animal research is of a stronger nature in all of the European nations than in Canada with the exception of Greece (18% strongly disagree) and Portugal (16% strongly disagree).
		Opposition to animal research is slightly higher in the fourth cluster nations than was seen in the third cluster.
	www.psyeta.org /sa/sa2.2/pifer.html (4913 words)

	Opposition research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The information gathered in opposition research goes into attack ad s and other forms of negative campaigning.
		BBC News Ghanaians celebrate opposition win - Opposition supporters celebrating the victory of John Kufuor in Ghana's presidential election - the country's first democratic transfer of power.
		Afghan Opposition Flexes its Muscles In northern Afghanistan's Panjshir Valley held by the opposition, there is a sense of expectation as pressure builds up on the Taleban.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Opposition_research.html (819 words)

	Sun Tzu and Opposition Research Strategy: Part II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For a 21st century opposition researcher, what's underdeveloped in the mix is what Antonio Gramsci called society's "superstructure," and what conservative theorists in the 1960s and 1970s referred to as "the war of ideas." That's what links wars permanently to politics.
		Opposition researchers identify those areas of comity, the opponent's particular weaknesses, and generate information that supports a certain type of comparison message - one that highlights attributes that will endear your candidate to the public, while contrasting sharply with a specific negative aspect of the same issue.
		An opposition researcher's goals are identical - attacks may be necessary, but they must be part of a larger political strategy, not utilized in a cookie cutter fashion.
	kerpeden.financialaidservice.info /Sun_Tzu_and_Opposition_Research_Strategy_Part_II_politics_bush_government.html (768 words)

	Campaigns & Elections: Gotcha! - opposition research in political campaigns - includes related article
		Another concern with opposition research, he says, is that it focuses too much attention on the personal peccadilloes of candidates, at the expense of serious policy debate.
		To be sure, opposition research is not a recent symptom of modern social decline -- it's been around in one form or another since the birth of the Republic.
		Opposition research is not the sole province of any specific ideology or political party.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2519/is_n8_v15/ai_15721107 (1495 words)

	Global Fellows Forum
		The question of opposition loyalty in times of crises is, thus, a good case study for a larger inquiry into the constitutional status of the opposition.
		Indeed, opposition research is not very developed even in political science, as the focus is usually aimed at the electoral winners and power holders rather then those who came in second-place.
		Hence, because of the special role of the opposition in democracy, and because of the tendency, in times of crises, for judicial review to be ineffective and for minority views not to be well-represented politically, the opposition has a constitutional duty to oppose unconstitutional acts of the majority.
	www.jeanmonnetprogram.org /fellowsforum/ymersel_GRF.html (831 words)

	Sun Tzu and Opposition Research Strategy: Part I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Opposition research is one of the least understood aspects of political campaigning.
		Oppostion research is a great deal more than that: It provides the meat to a campaign's message and rapid response in heated debate.
		Particularly difficult for opposition researchers, who after all fancy ourselves as attack specialists, is resigning oneself to the idea that winning without fighting, or without going negative, should sometimes be preferred as an outcome.
	kerpeden.creditcardsprocessing.info /Sun_Tzu_and_Opposition_Research_Strategy_Part_I_politics_bush_government.html (694 words)

	Grits for Breakfast: Sun Tzu and Opposition Research Strategy: Part III
		That said, if many campaigns today rely too heavily on polling instead of paying human beings to research issues, it must be at least in part because too few opposition researchers understand that their task has an artistic, not just a perfunctory, component.
		But the opposition researcher might also consider the weather in Sun Tzu analogous to two factors: the vicissitudes of current events and public opinion, both of which in some seasons simply storm at the wrong time, for reasons beyond anyone's control.
		Discovering all this is the job of the opposition researcher, just as in the world of foreign affairs, spies and diplomats provide (sometimes faulty) information to modern generals and civilian leaders.
	gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com /2005/07/sun-tzu-and-opposition-res_112079173911184252.html (1312 words)

	San Antonio Current - front page - 04/07/2005 - Election - 'Reputation mercenaries'A necessary evil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		or years, opposition research has been to politics what plastic surgery is to the movie industry.
		By the strictest of definitions, opposition research is merely the practice of investigating an opposing candidate to make sure that the record matches the rhetoric.
		He describes opposition research as an exact science that swiftly weeds out the uncommitted or unprepared.
	www.sacurrent.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14297012&BRD=2318&PAG=461&dept_id=484045&rfi=6 (796 words)

	The Media Report: 22 July 2004 - Role Reversal: Journalists Investigating Journalism
		Joshua Green: Up until very recently, opposition research was seen as a task for junior staffers, and what they tended to do was compile a list of what they call ‘Votes and Quotes’, and that would be an opposing candidate’s voting record, and also anything he said that was controversial, potentially embarrassing, or damaging.
		So I think the fact that opposition research was so effective four years ago has made people not just in the United States but in other countries, in Australia as well, more cognisant of how it can be used as a political tool, as a political weapon.
		And an opposition researcher took a picture, blew it up into a placard and brought it to a rally, which had the effect of instantly ruining the guy’s campaign.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/mediarpt/stories/s1157918.htm (4171 words)

	Opposition research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A larger campaign, such as that for the American Presidency will have many dozens ofworkers doing opposition research scanning through vast amounts of information, searching through judicial records, all publicstatements, youthful writings.
		The information gathered in opposition research goes into attack ads and otherforms of negative campaigning.
		The most sophisticated opposition research does not just release any negative information it can find, it tries to build acomplete picture of the opponent in the voter's mind.
	www.therfcc.org /opposition-research-34727.html (526 words)

	Native Forest Council: News
		More important, she and her team understood how to use opposition research in the service of a larger goal: not simply to embarrass Gore with hard-to-explain votes or awkward statements but to craft over the course of the campaign a negative "storyline" about him that would eventually take hold in the public mind.
		Not long ago the RNC brought Griffin back in anticipation of this year's election, and in an indication of just how closely research and communications are intertwined, took the unusual step of bestowing two titles on him: director of opposition research and deputy communications director.
		Opposition research will be the key, and hidden, factor in the campaign.
	www.forestcouncil.org /tims_picks/view.php?id=123 (4854 words)

	Opposition Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Restraint by the opposition when it challenges the results of the vote, and...
		Dov Lynch is senior research fellow at the EU Institute for Security Studies, Paris...
		Opposition parties saw DF's tough talk and their deal with the government to allocate more funds for fighting terror as...
	opposition-research.wikiverse.org (683 words)

	Stanford Research: Opposition Research
		Founded in 1997, Stanford Research has built an impressive track record of success as one of the leading Democratic opposition research companies in the country.
		The highest purpose of opposition research is to ground political rhetoric in documented fact.
		We know that research is no good to you unless it’s 100-percent accurate, easily documented, in context, and on deadline.
	www.oppresearch.com (322 words)

	chargen 19/udp: Opposition Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		There is nothing wrong with looking for vulnerabilities in your competitor's products, and Neel Mehta has built enough of a rep for himself that he doesn't need to take "marching orders" from anybody.
		Snort is the most popular IDS deployed on the planet, and it is perfectly fair game: researchers are doing the community a service when they find holes in it.
		Quickly, though: I agree with a lot of Bejtlich's wormability analysis, but the fact that Snort's code is freely available (to be compiled on a variety of different toolchains on a variety of different operating systems in a variety of different configurations) makes it less wormable, not more.
	www.sockpuppet.org /tqbf/log/2005/10/opposition-research.html (176 words)

	Introduction and Summary: Public Makes Distinctions on Genetic Research
		While white evangelical Protestants stand out as the group most opposed to federal funding for stem cell research, this opposition is largely limited to highly-committed white evangelical Protestants, who oppose federally-funded stem cell research by three-to-one (58%-19%).
		The vast majority of those who support government funding of stem cell research are influenced by what they have seen in the media (42%) or their education (28%).
		This is particularly the case among white evangelical Protestants, fully 55% of whom explain their opposition to stem cell research in terms of their religious beliefs.
	people-press.org /reports/display.php3?ReportID=152 (957 words)

	CJR Daily: Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		For Republicans, it was Mission Accomplished: one small piece of opposition research, magnified and amplified as it bounced around the media echo chamber; one step forward in the wider effort to paint Kerry as the consummate flip flopper.
		In this case (as in most, opposition research purveyors and recipients alike stress) the research consisted of information in the public domain, or "votes and quotes," as it's called in the trade.
		While several reporters told Campaign Desk that they regard opposition research as an essential resource, some were unsurprisingly reluctant to point to examples of when or how they have made use of it in their own work, preferring to speak in hypotheticals.
	www.cjrdaily.org /archives/000609.asp (2303 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Bush reiterates opposition to research
		Instead, the research community has been pressing for legislation that would free scientists from restrictions in areas such as stem cell research.
		Advocates of such research say the news from South Korea provides a tremendous boost to prospects for therapeutic cloning, and makes it difficult for Washington to block new areas of research in diabetes or Alzheimers.
		Research into all forms of cloning is banned in Iowa, Virginia, Arkansas and Michigan, where the US scientist who advised the South Korean team works.
	www.guardian.co.uk /international/story/0,3604,1147158,00.html (453 words)

	Confessions Of A Political Junkie: Opposition Research
		As a political consultant, I cannot stress enough that you should do opposition research.
		Of all the campaigns I have worked on, the least successful ones were those where no oppo research was done.
		In fact, in one campaign, my guy lost the primary only to have his opponent destroyed by a lefty who got hold of public records showing the Republican nominee had tried to pull favors for convicted felons while in a government job.
	www.erickerickson.org /archives/002274.html (377 words)

	Opposition research - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Opposition research, Equal time, Expenses, Automated calls: ALSO: Should you complete interest-group issue questionnaires?
		Indonesian mitochondrial DNA and its opposition to a Pleistocene era origin of proto-Polynesians in island Southeast Asia.
		Memory, History, and Opposition Under State Socialism (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /opposition_research.htm (675 words)

	Opposition research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A local election will generally have a desk dedicated to reading through all of the opponents statements in Hansard to the press and their voting record.
		This investigation might go so far as finding high school year books but significant resources are rarely applied.
		This page was last modified 16:56, 6 Aug 2004.
	www.encyclopedia-online.info /Opposition_research (554 words)

	Americans for Medical Progress : Research Opposition : Animal Rights Groups
		The HSUS fields a well-funded Animals in Research section which works towards abolishing the use of animals in research.
		Ray Greek’s claims are repeated by many animal rights groups in their attempts to justify their opposition to animal-based biomedical research.
		The fact is that Dr. Sabin worked for years to develop and determine the efficacy and safety of the vaccine in animals, before it was tested on the first human subjects, including his own young daughters.
	www.amprogress.org /ResearchOpposition/ResearchOppositionList.cfm?c=18 (1132 words)

	Fight the Right Network Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		We have been in existence since April of 1994 and have organized a number of political projects in opposition to the political ascendancy of theocrats and fascists.
		Opposition Research is done jointly with other groups associated with the Pennsylvania Alliance for Democracy (PAD).
		The publications and Internet mailing lists of the Communications Working Groups of the FTRN and the PAD provide a forum for numerous organizations who are working to counteract the political and religious right in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.
	www.critpath.org /ftrn/ftrn.html (271 words)

	Open Source Opposition Research? \| Personal Democracy Forum
		Last week, I had the opportunity to join PDF contributor Brian Reich on a panel on blogging, media, and campaigns at a conference organized by Campaigns and Elections Magazine.
		I left with a lot to think about, but one thing that's stuck in my head is a raft of questions about how blogging - especially within active communities or so-called blogswarms has changed the field and demands of opposition research.
		It's always been an iron law in political campaigns that not only is research on your opponent valuable - but research on your own candidate is critical.
	www.personaldemocracy.com /node/350 (456 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thorough and well-written research will be the basis for benchmark polling in competitive campaigns.
		A full research project will allow the campaign to cite votes and quotes to back up the candidate’s message.
		Self-research allows the team to prepare for possible attacks by the opposition, and often highlights positive aspects of the candidate’s personal or public story that may have been overlooked.
	www.copelandresearch.com /page3.html (130 words)

	Wisconsin Gov's Plan to Fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research Faces Opposition
		Madison, WI (LifeNews.com) -- Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle's plan to spend $750 million funding embryonic stem cell research in the Badger State is running into opposition from state legislators who are concerned the state can't afford it.
		Doyle announced the proposal on the heels of California voters approving a $6 billion measure to finance unproven embryonic stem cell research.
		After two decades of research, embryonic stem cells have yet to produce a single treatment.
	www.lifenews.com /bio602.html (567 words)

	SCG \| International Risk - INTELLIGENCE DIVISION - Opposition Research Unit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Our Opposition Research Unit finds accurate, documented information that helps campaigns develop effective contrasts between candidates.
		We understand that research is no good to you unless it’s 100-percent accurate, easily documented, in context, and on deadline.
		Our Opposition Research Unit relies on time-tested research methods to get the job done right and on time.
	www.scgonline.net /DI/OppResearch/ORoverview.htm (145 words)

	SCG \| International Risk - INTELLIGENCE DIVISION - Opposition Research Unit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Many research groups simply hire interns or fresh college graduates with no more experience than having been president of their fraternity to conduct their research for them.
		Our Opposition Research Team has two distinct advantages over most opposition research groups.
		Our team researchers are former CIA, FBI and NSA officers with professional experience in collecting information and analyzing it.
	www.scgonline.net /DI/OppResearch/ORwhy.htm (180 words)

	Astrology Software for Research - Saturn-Pluto Opposition - a research study
		Given the unusual times we are living through, I thought it might be a good idea to make the Saturn-Pluto opposition the "newsmaker of the week".
		I would like to focus our collective wisdom on creating a vision for the best that could come out of this opposition between the two most challenging planets in the Solar system.
		We would love to hear some inspiring, amusing and even gut wrenching stories of how the Saturn-Pluto opposition is playing out in the lives of people you know.
	www.astrodatabank.com /AS/SaturnPluto.htm (608 words)

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