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...behind the scenes, the McCain team is already thinking about how to win in a general election. "We will certainly try to remind voters of his independence and his reputation as a reformer," says Charlie Black, a senior McCain adviser and leading Republican lobbyist. "His positions on the issues, which he certainly won't change, do change the Republican stereotypes...
...scientists say the pump's actual devastation would be more like 200,000 acres, which is why 541 of them signed a letter calling for a veto. The Clinton Administration dismissed what then Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt called a "godawful, cockamamie" project in 2000, and even the top lobbyist for the Corps once described the pump and a second project in Missouri as "economic duds with huge environmental consequences...
...Downstairs, in the theater's press filing room, Al Cardenas, a Washington lobbyist who chaired Romney's Florida campaign, continued in the same frame of reference. "We think that the conservative movement activists are now beginning to panic about losing their grip on the Republican Party," Cardenas said. "They better start working hard, and they have told us they are going to have to start working hard...
...comeback in California; veteran strategist Charlie Black, whose counsel has found an ear in every Republican White House since Reagan; Mark McKinnon, the political advertising genius who made John Kerry's wind surfing famous; Mark Salter, McCain's co-author, speechwriter and id; and Rick Davis, a successful lobbyist and Washington sage. They've all been with the campaign since it began, and they all survived its implosion last summer; the only thing that really took a hit in its aftermath, they joke, is their pocketbooks...
...Besides a lack of energy, Thompson was plagued by tactical missteps out of the gate. He had to defend his stance on abortion after the Los Angeles Times reported that, during his time as a lobbyist, he'd done work for a pro-choice group. During a stop in Florida his seeming ignorance over a controversial proposal to allow oil and gas exploration in the Everglades earned him criticism. And while the rest of the G.O.P. field ran on a platform of 'I'll keep you safe, I'll cut your taxes and I'll overturn Roe v. Wade' (rotate...