Word: mehlman
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It’s not as if Kuo is godless, either. He was an Ashcroft aide and has an evangelical blog, and represents the kind of voter the Bush White House relies on as its base. But Kuo notes that Bush political operatives Ken Mehlman and Karl Rove called the evangelicals “ridiculous” and “nuts” in strategy meetings—an excellent way to alienate that base before next election...
...here, too. Many of the OFBCI’s 2004 conferences and public events were held in districts where Republican candidates were mired in close races, and these were planned and scheduled not by the Office’s director, but by Bush’s political strategists and Mehlman...
...always, a key part of the campaign involves money--the national Republican Party is dumping at least three times as much into key states as its Democratic counterpart is--but money is only the start. "Panic results when you're surprised," says Republican National Committee (R.N.C.) chairman Ken Mehlman. "We've been preparing for the toughest election in at least a decade...
...close the deal in tight races with a get-out-the-vote strategy that was developed in the wreckage of the 2000 presidential campaign. Bush's team was led then, as it is now, by Rove, Bush's political architect and now White House deputy chief of staff, and Mehlman, then White House political-affairs director. Their theory was that Bush lost 3% or 4% of his expected vote in 2000 because those people just stayed home...
...Republicans are more chipper than they have been in months, with falling gas prices and an uptick in President Bush's approval ratings. In a Gallup poll of likely voters last week, 48% said they would vote Democratic for Congress--and 48% said they'd vote Republican. Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, says the opposition hasn't sold a vision for handling terrorism, Iraq or jobs. He also cites a drop-off in turnout for most Democratic primaries this year as one sign that the Dems aren't strong enough to mount a takeover of power...