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...media spotlight, he has become more like the other candidates who for the most part are “listening to their handlers and gurus and fat-cat contributors,” as Bob Herbert of the New York Times so aptly put it. This is a formula for caution, not courage. If Obama continues with this tempered approach, he runs the risk of losing support to candidates like John Edwards, who has already shown a tendency to take politically bold positions on issues such as poverty and the war in Iraq...
...Internet. "You don't have to go from city to city to city to do events," says former Senator Bob Kerrey, who ran for the Democratic nomination in 1992. "You don't have to be there for people to feel that you are." But there will also be the caution of knowing that every stray utterance could end up on YouTube. "The margin for rhetorical errors is quite small today. Any slight misstep can be distributed in all 50 states simultaneously," Kerrey adds. "There will be less creativity in talking--and in thinking...
Campaign veterans caution against taking this early frenzy of election action too seriously, noting that actual voters aren't likely to start paying much attention until after Labor Day. But the mania has a way of feeding on itself, as every campaign seeks to impress the media, the donors and one another with its poll numbers, endorsements, financial strength and organization on the ground...
...nominee. Muskie delivered the well-received Democratic response to Nixon on election eve 1970, and, as TIME noted, "Some politicians thought his congressional election eve TV speech last November gave him a virtual lock on the nomination." The magazine also wrote that some Democrats worried about Muskie's political caution and lack of emotional connection with voters. But the nomination was his to lose...
...cares enough about you and your future to plunk down more than $3,000 to smooth your rough edges. But if you appear via corporate command to what has been called charm school, you are probably in manners trouble. Sometimes bosses use Pachter to deliver embarrassing news, like the caution to the female executive who was wearing a bra that was hopelessly wrong...