Word: mehlman
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...hopes of delivering a win that could help mobilize their base in 2006. Meanwhile, G.O.P. strategists think they will benefit from what they say is yet another political blunder by the party that resisted creating the Homeland Security department before the 2002 elections. Said Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman: "It seems amazing Democrats would go down this road again...
...Republican National Committee has switched on its intricate "72-hour program" of door-knocking and phone-calling to supporters who have been identified by well-honed techniques that include both the high-tech and laborious. The party chairman, Ken Mehlman, made appearances all over the state this weekend, including a stop at a phone bank in Fredericksburg that had made more than 40,000 calls in just a couple of days. Mehlman will be out again Monday, as will Mary Matalin. White House Political Director Sara Taylor canvassed the state as if she were a candidate herself, making appearances...
...nominee, longtime Baltimore Congressman Ben Cardin. Still, Steele will have company: the GOP hopes to have several African-Americans on the ballot in Maryland, and at least two gubernatorial candidates, Kenneth Blackwell in Ohio and Lynn Swann, the ex-Pittsburgh Steelers receiver, in Pennsylvania. Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman says those candidates will help as the party seeks to win black voters by showing blacks they are a part of the Republican Party: "Inclusion means you get candidates like Michael Steele...
...Mehlman has been particularly aggressive in this initiative. Since taking over as head of the Republican Party earlier this year, the former White House political director has spoken at 31 events focused on outreach to African-Americans, from historically black colleges to small NAACP chapters. He's pointedly criticized the so-called "Southern Strategy" Republicans used in the past to appeal to white voters in the South by using race as a wedge issue. Mehlman's message is twofold: that some GOP policies appeal to blacks better than those of the Democrats, and that because blacks give 90% of their...
...secret of Republican electoral success be ... baseball? Actually, it's Moneyball, Michael Lewis' best-seller about how Oakland A's manager Billy Beane built a top team by picking players on the basis of their stats, not their reputations. Republican National Committee chairman and Baltimore Orioles fan Ken Mehlman is applying Moneyball's stats-centric strategy to his own game. "Politics, like baseball, for years was less effective than it could be because you didn't try to quantify things," he told TIME. Mehlman managed Bush-Cheney '04, which set "metrics" for making phone calls and knocking on doors...