Disclosing Candidate Illness: Winning Campaigns Start with Controlling the Agenda

Today's sophisticated technology climate coupled with its "all bets-are-off" level of media scrutiny promotes an environment in which candidates must consider each and every aspect of their personal and professional lives potential campaign issues.

CONTROLLING THE AGENDA is the No. 1 rule of campaigning. Campaigns spend months combing through lists of issues to ready themselves for battle. Position on taxes? Check. Health care? Check. Social Security? Check. Medical records?

Candidates with no prepared strategy for dealing with their personal medical history risk losing control of the agenda. Today's sophisticated technology climate coupled with its "all-bets-are-of�" …