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Charles Campion, deputy campaign chairman for the 1984 Walter Mondale campaign; Mary Anne Marsh, a commentator for Fox News; Charles Manning, senior advisor for Mitt Romney’s 2008 presidential campaign; and Alex Castellanos, media consultant to seven U.S. presidential campaigns and current IOP fellow, spoke about the successes and failures of the two current presidential campaigns, as well...
...This is clearly not the best year in the world to be a Republican,” said Castellanos, who advised Mitt Romney’s failed campaign. “For McCain, it’s like swimming against a current...
...ground-up” and “based on communication.” Castellanos has served as a media consultant for seven presidential candidates. After advising the Bush campaign in 2004, Castellanos was the chief strategist for the presidential campaign of former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney. He currently serves on the John McCain for President Ad Council. Carrie Sheffield, a first-year public policy student at the Harvard Kennedy School, said that she was impressed by Castellano’s broad range of knowledge and his frank assessment of the heated presidential race. “I was interested...
...comes star power - Palin has it; McCain doesn't, and neither did any of the other men who ran for the party's nomination this year, which is why McCain managed to outlast them. As the also-rans trooped onstage to deliver their obligatory endorsements, Republicans were reminded that Mitt Romney looked like a leading man but lacked the magic; that Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee were never going to be more than character actors; and that Rudy Giuliani was a one-hit wonder as a leading man. While the runners-up looked on bravely, Palin blew past them...
...come down to a chaotic scramble in the last week - a reaction, it seems, to the fact that the Republican Party elders had vetoed his first two choices, Senator Joe Lieberman and former governor Tom Ridge. McCain wasn't going to give the bosses the choice they wanted - Mitt Romney - and he cast about, deciding on Palin, an occasional maverick, at the last minute. He had never worked with the governor. He had spoken to her a few times. His team, it now seems clear, had not vetted her very well. In her first appearance alongside McCain, she claimed...