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...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...
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...
...higher gear than you might think a year before voters go to the polls. The Bush campaign is on track to raise $200 million, which, perhaps more than anything else, is a testament to the devotion of his supporters. And at Bush's suburban Virginia campaign headquarters, manager Ken Mehlman has taken to asking staff members who knock off early, "Does Howard Dean's staff go home...
...country, there was no more heartening aspect of the election than the fact that Schwarzenegger cut deep into constituencies that Democrats regard as their own. "Significant parts of what the Democrats take for granted as their base cannot be taken for granted," says Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlman. In union households, Schwarzenegger ran roughly even with the leading Democratic contender, Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante, and he won nearly a third of Latinos and close to 20% of African Americans. He did far better among women than strategists on either side had expected in the wake of a late-breaking...