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Voters in November should re-elect President Bush because his “proactive” foreign policy is required in the post-Sept. 11 world, Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman told the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum yesterday...
...confidence during these dark days is its ground organization. While Democrats were attacking, the Bush team says it was quietly laying track. Much of the $41 million the campaign has spent so far out of the $140 million raised has been on this quiet infrastructure. Indeed, campaign manager Ken Mehlman, the Harvard-educated son of a CPA, has worked so diligently to build a field organization that some call him the "accountant" for his excessive attention to detail...
Historically, Republicans have been behind Democrats at get-out-the-vote efforts, the tedious but vital work of calling people, getting them to the polls, making sure there is eye contact. But Rove, Mehlman and the G.O.P. have been trying to make a science of voter motivation since the 2000 election and have determined that reluctant voters are four times as likely to turn out if they are contacted personally. Bush officials found, for instance, that this kind of effort is the most effective with Latinos who have never had such attention from the G.O.P. If you are a swing...
That's impressive--for a Democrat. But Kerry's fund-raising operation pales in comparison to the colossus that is the Bush-Cheney re-election effort. Bush raised a record-setting $132 million in 2003. Ken Mehlman, campaign manager of the President's re-election effort, says that his team "still has its goal of raising $170 million" by this September's Republican Convention in New York City, but no one will be surprised if they clear closer to $200 million. So far they have been frugal, says Mehlman, striking good cash-up-front deals with vendors. Indeed, the cash...
...intelligence spending--while conveniently ignoring the instances in which he voted to increase both. "Howard Dean has said that America's military will not always be the world's strongest. Senator Kerry's voting record would make Governor Dean's vision a reality," says Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlman. But the Bush team knows that if Kerry, a pugnacious campaigner, is the nominee, he won't be passive, like a previous Massachusetts Democrat. As a presidential adviser put it, "He won't make that Dukakis mistake...