Salena Zito is a political analyst, reporter and editorial page columnist. She has also reported on Pennsylvania politics for The Weekly Standard. A board member of the Center for Media & Public Policy at the Heritage Foundation, she honed her skills working on the campaigns of George H.W. Bush, Senator Rick Santorum, Bush2000, Bush-Cheney 2004 served on the senate staff of U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. Miss Zito has interviewed one on one Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director General Hayden, Homeland Security Director Chertoff, Attorney General Gonzales and First Lady Laura Bush. Zito spends a third of her time on the road interviewing legislators as well as current policy makers and the contenders that are running for president in 2008. http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito http://media.townhall.com/TownHall/icons/TH-feed-icon-128x128.gif http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito TownHall.com, Where your opinion counts. 128 Copyright (c) 2008 Townhall.com, A Salem Communications Web. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED jim.dearras@townhall.com (Jim De Arras) Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:00:46 GMT Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:00:46 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss RSS.NET: http://www.rssdotnet.com/ ST. PAUL-The one thing that Democrats, Republicans and analysts agreed on regarding Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin was that the double standards on parenting directed toward her crossed all kinds of... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/09/07/sexism_in_the_twin_cities 5ca190cb-ba34-4725-8abb-26e6ab81ca94 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:00:46 GMT Welcome to Pennsylvania. Check your assumptions at the door and take nothing for granted -- because this commonwealth is about to become the epicenter of the political universe. "The Democrats can't win the... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/08/31/wooing_pennsylvanians 9d7fd559-d80f-4358-ad7a-df51cc80a078 Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT UNITY, Ohio - On a billboard in this small eastern Ohio town, white letters on a black background read: "I saw that." The message is signed, "God." Yet that stark reminder shouldn't lead you to believe that God is... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/08/24/ohios_up_for_grabs 6e338454-2fc5-4bd9-bde2-cf23a5a4592d Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT Rumors of a contentious Democrat convention appear to be greatly exaggerated. David Morehouse, a senior campaign adviser to Sen. John Kerry's 2004 presidential campaign, says the threat of revolt is a perception some... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/08/17/no_sinking_feeling_about_hillary d738934c-1d57-453d-b0c8-d1e98ca5711c Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:01:32 GMT A longtime Western Pennsylvania politician once said, "You run with the top of the ticket when you can, and run away from it when you have to." Which explains U.S. Rep. Jason Altmire's short answer as to whether he... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/08/10/considering_obama bccaf05d-be0a-45f6-9c4d-a7aeed332b80 Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:00:03 GMT An old political adage says, "He who sets the debate wins the election." If the presidential election was held tomorrow, it would be hello President Barack Obama because, so far, John McCain is handing him a... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/08/03/mccain_is_forgetting_the_first_rule_of_fight_club 7f55199a-35e5-47ab-bae3-f731f191b5d5 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 04:01:00 GMT It's complicated. Pennsylvania is a "purple" state that must go Democrat blue instead of Republican red for Barack Obama to win the November election. John McCain does not need Pennsylvania to win the White House,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/07/27/cornering_pennsylvania e18b9fe5-ff8f-45d8-8287-b83fe286d95a Sun, 27 Jul 2008 04:00:11 GMT "The Appalachian voting bloc will be critical in the . 2008 presidential election," former Democratic National Committee executive director Mark Siegel says. Yet his broad statement comes with its own geopolitical... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/07/19/the_hatfield_n_mccoy_vote bdc21452-28c8-4c77-851b-1b232ff9192c Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:00:32 GMT The clashing worlds of razor-sharp discipline and campaign fatigue are an ever-present factor in the daily lives of presumptive presidential nominees Barack Obama and John McCain. In a 24-hour news cycle, words... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/07/13/shut_up_and_surrogate 2c0fe587-cb62-4b27-a72d-d0062a5645ac Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:01:00 GMT Two weeks ago, Newsweek released a poll showing Barack Obama 15 points ahead of John McCain. Days later, the Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg poll showed a similar gap. Yet over at Gallup, the daily tracking poll showed... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/07/06/weighing_the_polls 5bd5cef7-5dbb-4995-a34f-3571d1d83472 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:00:16 GMT By all accounts, Barack Obama should win this election. He and his brand control the image, the message and, to a large extent, the media of this election cycle. Yes, the media. He has enough money to buy ads every... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/06/29/character_judgment dadaa0ed-d66f-4436-aed8-55cc7dbd0a64 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:00:57 GMT When Howard Dean crashed the party in the summer of 2003, his quixotic approach to trying to win the Democrat nomination for president was so outside the box that no one really knew what to make of him. Five years,... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/06/22/howard_dean,_winner 02b5d0cd-cde6-4959-a802-3d1b6eaa9007 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:00:48 GMT Could Pennsylvania be the keystone to the vice presidency? Both Tom Ridge and Ed Rendell are reported as in the hunt to be on the national tickets of their parties' presidential nominees. Ridge is Pennsylvania's... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/06/15/rendell_vs_ridge 708c85bf-bc19-4e4a-b8f2-37717fbc4d93 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 04:00:01 GMT What we say or do has a way of coming back to us, especially if you're a political candidate. Thanks to technology, words are like boomerangs, always traveling in a curved path and returning inevitably to their... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/06/08/promising_platforms 49384758-eb20-40c2-8c82-d99f9d1f70c2 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:41:00 GMT Maybe it's time John McCain got another person to run on the Republican ticket with him besides George W. Bush. Branding is a big part of campaigning. So far, the best branding on the 2008 campaign trail has been... http://www.townhall.com/columnists/SalenaZito/2008/06/01/is_mitt_mccains_top_wingman 0d4ffc24-d117-457e-b5b1-898d8f579830 Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:39:56 GMT