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William S. Bike is Senior Vice President of ANB Communications, a communications consulting and political consulting firm based in Chicago. Bike has worked in journalism, public relations, and politics since 1979 and is the former Communications Chair of Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century Chicago, a Democratic activist group.
Bike has won the highest award in Chicago journalism, the Peter Lisagor Award, four times, as well as numerous other journalism awards. He also is the author of the books Streets of the Near West Side (ACTA Publications, 1996, and 1stBooks Library, 2001) and Winning Political Campaigns (Denali Press, 1998 and 2001, and Smashwords E-Books, 2012) a how-to book about political campaigning; and the editor of Essays on Earl Renfroe--A Man of Firsts (UIC College of Dentistry Press, 2001).
A political pundit, Bike has made numerous radio, television, and print appearances concerning politics and government in numerous venues including CNN, Fox News, and the Chicago-Sun Times.
(1 comments) SHARE Tuesday, August 25, 2015 Will GOP Nominate a Businessman for President? They've Done It Before
If the GOP nominates Donald Trump for President, he won't be the first businessman who never held elective office to snag the top spot on the Republican ticket. Wendell Willkie did it in 1940.
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 20, 2013 Sequestration Abomination
If Congress and President Obama had known their history, they would have foreseen that sequestration was the 21st Century version of the "Tariff of Abominations."
(3 comments) SHARE Friday, March 15, 2013 Suddenly, British Conservatives Face Their Own Tea Party-Like Challenge
British conservatives could look across the pond and laugh at the fratricide of their American counterparts in the Republican Party--until the Tories suddenly and unexpectedly were confronted with the very same situation.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 13, 2013 Rove Effort to Destroy Tea Party May be Doomed
The history of the Republican Party shows that the effort of Karl Rove and his Conservative Victory Project and Crossroads political groups to neutralize the Tea Party wing of the GOP likely is doomed.
(17 comments) SHARE Monday, February 18, 2013 Obama and Newt are Wrong: Hillary Doesn't Have 2016 in the Bag
Many politics watchers believe that Hillary Clinton already has the 2016 presidential election sewn up. Not so, says William S. Bike, author of the book "Winning Political Campaigns: A Comprehensive Guide to Electoral Success."