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...don’t-like-my-record-the-other-guy-will-murder-your-children campaign, President Bush should have known not to cede one of his biggest strengths: likeability. A tough comparative message delivered without the occasional Reaganesque wink, grin or chuckle can seem mean. That night, polling put Kerry??s “personal favorability” rating above Bush’s for the first time. And the president’s scowling, stammering arrogance—his shock and awe that someone in the same room would doubt his judgment—might also call...
...other guy spend a million dollars explaining it.” I cannot wait to see the Annenberg School of Communications study that follows this campaign, but I suspect it will show that the president’s political operation dictated the message of the day far more than Kerry??s. Unless bad international or economic news overshadowed the candidates (and luckily for the Democrats, that happened with abnormal frequency), it was almost always the Bush campaign making a charge and the Kerry campaign explaining it. Or it was the president’s people diverting reporters?...
...appearance of consistency matters. Kerry??s biggest Iraq problem wasn’t saying “I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it,” it was voting against the $87 billion at all—despite legitimate concerns about how the money got spent. Newsweek magazine reported that Senator Hillary Clinton, among others, advised Kerry that he had to vote for funding the troops after voting to authorize the war. It wasn’t a national security issue; it was a character issue. And even though Bush...
...That was Kerry??s “pre-9/11 mentality.” Bush’s pre-9/11 mentality—as of 36 days before 9/11—was to ignore a briefing entitled “Bin Laden Determined to Strike Inside the United States,” because he felt it was an “historical” curiosity...
...McSorley Jr. ’06, legislative director for the Harvard Democrats, said the club would urge its members to contribute to New Deal, after the presidential election when their commitment to Sen. John F. Kerry??s campaign ends...