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Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta - Garance Franke-Ruta is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where she oversees the Politics Channel.
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She was previously national web politics editor at The Washington Post, and has also worked at The American Prospect, The Washington City Paper, The New Republic and National Journal magazines. At The Prospect she won the 2007 Blog Hillman Prize awarded to its group blog, "Tapped."

In 2006, she was fellow at the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School in Cambridge, Mass., and in 2007, a summer fellow with The Iowa Independent, based in Des Moines, Iowa.

She has lectured at the Kennedy School, the Harvard Art Museums, Williams College, Wellesley College, and Brandeis and Georgetown Universities. She also has made numerous appearances on national and regional television and radio programs.

Born in the South of France, Garance grew up in San Cristobal de las Casas in Chiapas, Mexico; New York City, New York; and Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has resided in Washington, D.C., since graduating from Harvard in 1997.
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Bill Clinton Ran Against Gingrich in 1996 in 3 Ads

By Garance Franke-Ruta

Dec 11 2011, 1:45 PM ET Comment

Building a bridge to the 21st century did not involve the expectation of another chance for Democrats to run against the party of Gingrich in 2012

University of Maryland political science professor Thomas Schaller points us to these Museum of the Moving Image advertisements from 1996 showing incumbent Democrat Bill Clinton running against Newt Gingrich and the "Dole-Gingrich" ticket in three advertisements in 1996, and the Dole-Kemp ticket responding in one that featured the then-Speaker. For those who didn't live through the political fights of the mid-90s, it's hard to recall how extraordinarily toxic Gingrich was on the national scene after the government shut-down at the end of 1995. These ads serve as a reminder -- and also as a bittersweet reminder of what a pre-9/11, pre-Iraq and Afghanistan wars campaign in an era of economic prosperity looked like.

The Dole-Kemp campaign responded to one of the ads featuring Gingrich:



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