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"We're going to meet the voters where they are," Shrum had told me early in the Kerry campaign, which sounded innocent enough-but what he really meant was, We're going to follow our polling numbers and focus groups. We're going to emphasize the things that voters think...
Politics was all about getting the public to answer yes to those three questions. Of course, an integral part of the job was aggressively-often stealthily and sometimes disgracefully-painting the opposition as weak, untrustworthy and effete. McKinnon was amazed the Democrats had never quite figured this out. In fact...
Presidential campaigns are, inevitably, about character. In 2004, at a moment of real national consequence for the United States, character was expressed in the most limited, nonpositive way imaginable: I know you don't agree with me-in fact, most polls showed the public thought that Bush had taken the...
I think partisans want to believe there's something fundamental about political choices, that a vote is a reflection of character - a hopeful thesis, given that most Americans don't vote at all. In the end there's nothing all that exotic about a firmly held political opinion, and the...
In his own remorseless testimony, Moussaoui presented himself as a hideous and dangerous character, eager to kill, indifferent to the sorrow his co-conspirators had unleashed. But let reason and logic now interrupt us. He also appeared sufficiently crazy that, apart from an insanity exemption, you can easily conclude that...