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...Governor and both U.S. Senators were, and still are, Republicans - a depressed economy and dissatisfaction with the Iraq war made the Kerry campaign hopeful they could put Ohio in the win column. More than hopeful, really. "Look at the advantages that my party had," says Democratic consultant Paul Begala, a Kerry adviser who's just one of the swarm of pundits interviewed by the filmmakers. "We had a soft economy, we had a very unpopular President...we had an unpopular occupation...and we had a candidate who had a terrific record of personal heroism in combat." Republicans saw the exact...
...define themselves. And not just news competitors. After Bill Clinton got off an on-camera harangue against Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace, for an aggressive line of questioning about his administration's anti-terror efforts, the New York Times reported that prominent Democrats, from Howard Dean to Paul Begala, had begun an open campaign of attacking Fox as a covert Republican shill...
...there are still major differences on tactics, such as the proposal to censure Bush over his warrantless spying program offered by Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold. That idea won little support among his fellow Democrats. "I don't think it's a lack of ideas; it's coherence," says Paul Begala, the veteran Democratic strategist. The anti-war left is so mad at Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman, for instance, that they're running a primary campaign against...
...Last week, although the election is still seven months away, both sides were fiercely trying to define the real Chris Shays. At a Farrell fundraiser, veteran Democratic political strategist Paul Begala called Shays "President Bush's rubber stamp," and Farrell's staff put out a memo detailing how often Shays supports Bush initiatives in Congress. Shays staff quickly responded with data showing that the Congressman's voting record is one of the most moderate in Congress...
Democratic strategists and former Clinton aides Paul Begala and James Carville led the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on a whirlwind tour of the problems facing their party last night, promising the “election of a lifetime” in 2008. Almost exactly a year after CNN announced the cancellation of their talk show “Crossfire,” Begala and Carville released a new book in January, “Take It Back,” a strategy guide for Democrats to oust Republicans and restore Clinton-era politics. “The Democrats...