Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem is, strategists are at least as harmful as they are helpful. Vice President Al Gore '69 blamed his campaign for his own early misteps, and so hired disgraced former Democratic representative Tony Coehlo to run it. And then, Coehlo hired a consultant, a tabacco company lawyer named Carter Eskew, who hates current Gore consultant Bob Squier. That means that two top Gore advisers are giving each other the silent treatment...
...fighting consultants is not the story. What is is the failure of the Gore campaign to deflect attention from their own internal woes. What good are Gore's image consultants if they can't even spin internal disagreements with in their own campaigns? No wonder that Gore's issue message is being eclipsed by former New Jersey senator Bill Bradley. Polls in key states like New Hampshire and Michigan show a definite Bradley surge at a time when Gore is supposed to enjoy the benefits of incumbency...
...really didn't need. He won the 1992 elections because his idealism inspired voters and because H. Ross Perot stole votes and momentum from George Bush. He beat Bob Dole principally because the economy was strong and Dole was weak. None of these require a Harvard education--or a campaign consultant--to figure...
Candidates have policy aides, political directors, advance aides, personal aides. The senior aides have aides of their own. There are campaign chairs who don't, and campaign managers and statewide managers and statewide organizers...
Bush the Younger has yet to learn the ways of running a campaign--and yet, long-time political journalists tell me that his campaign is better run than them all. First, they note, Bush, has a relatively small staff. He's known to switch speech topics at the last minute, change his schedule, and cancel events because he's too tired...