Dole Institute -- Discussion of 2008 Presidential Campaign

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Straight From the Trail: Part II

Lynn Sweet is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun-Times. She writes a column and a blog for the paper. For the past year, she has been focusing on the 2008 presidential campaign.

In 2004, Sweet was a fellow at Harvard University's Institute of Politics at the Kennedy School of Government. In 2002, as the violence between Israelis and Palestinians was deepening, she was sent to the region to cover the conflict. In 1995, Sweet broke the story on the perks the Clinton White House offered major donors. In 1990, Sweet was one of the first journalists in the U.S. to analyze political ads for accuracy.

She is a regular guest on MSNBC and other political shows. Sweet is a former president of the Washington Press Club Foundation and is a member of the Gridiron Club. Sweet has a master's from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley after attending the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Geoff Earle has covered politics in Washington DC since 1994. For the last nine months he has followed Hillary Rodham Clinton on the campaign trail for the New York Post, one of the nation's largest circulation metropolitan daily newspapers. Prior to taking on the Clinton beat, he was an investigative reporter at The Post, covering homeland security, Congress, and the White House.
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Earle has covered the congressional leadership for The Hill, National Journal, and Congressional Quarterly. His freelance works have appeared in a variety of publications, including The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune, and he has reported abroad from Germany and Indonesia. He has received fellowships and training awards from the American Council on Germany, Washington University, and Loyola University Law School, and has been a contributing writer for Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections and Politics in America books.

Tom Beaumont has been The Des Moines Register's chief political reporter since 2002 and has covered presidential politics nearly continuously during that time. He was the primary writer during the Register's coverage of the 2004 Democratic caucus campaign and most recently led the coverage of the year-long campaign for the 2008 Democratic and Republican caucuses. During the 2008 campaign, Beaumont was a regular on the campaign trail, but also focused on far-reaching enterprise stories that looked deep into the candidates' policy positions, statements and support networks. He has been a featured contributor to CNN, C-SPAN, MSNBC, Fox News and other national broadcast news outlets.

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