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...first days of the George W. Bush Administration, Ken Mehlman, then head of the White House political office, would show up at the daily department heads' meeting carrying a printed sheet of paper with the day's priorities meticulously broken down into hyperorganized points and subpoints. "Everyone is looking at him bemused," Bush adviser Karl Rove recalled to TIME. "Then they all started making their own versions...
...Bush is re-elected, it will be in large measure because of Mehlman's discipline and attention to detail. As Bush's campaign manager, Mehlman, 38, a bachelor workaholic, has essentially built a half-a-billion-dollar company in a year and a half and imprinted on it his own fanatical focus on the tiniest task. He cites statistics about the organization: 7 million e-activists who have signed up online, 1.2 million volunteers who have offered to do grunt work like knocking on doors and making calls, 47,000 house parties for Bush, even 379,000 letters...
...Kerry by a solid margin. Al Gore carried the women's vote by 11 percentage points in 2000, but it was still not enough to win him the White House. "Both parties have had a gender gap--Democrats with men and Republicans with women," says Bush campaign manager Ken Mehlman. "At the moment, our gender gap has been fixed, and theirs hasn...
...recovery our country has had since the 1930s," says Gene Sperling, an economic adviser to Kerry. "Most Americans have a higher standard for economic growth." Republicans say Democrats are ignoring all the hopeful signs. "What you've got is folks who are searching for negative statistics," says Ken Mehlman, the Bush-Cheney campaign manager...
...response to a question from Nicholas F.B. Smyth ’05—who was sporting a shirt supporting Kerry’s candidacy—on renouncing the use of “wedge” issues such as race and gay marriage, Mehlman said that he did not consider gay marriage a wedge issue but rather one of great importance to the American people...