Word: napolitan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavily on professional American campaign strategists. Herrera's adviser was Manhattan-based David Garth, whose credits include the victories of New York Governor Hugh Carey and New York City Mayor Edward Koch. Piñerua had the services of Clifton White, a former Barry Goldwater aide, and Joseph Napolitan, author of The Election Game and How to Win It, who ran the successful 1973 campaign of outgoing President Carlos Andr...
...Garth and Deardourff best typify this frenetic business. Deardourff spent one recent week racing to Florida for an anti-casino campaign; then to Venezuela for the presidential race, where he is opposed not only by Garth but also by the legendary Joe Napolitan, onetime seer for Hubert Humphrey; then to Detroit, where he is handling the re-election campaign of Governor William Milliken; then to Ohio to write some TV spots for Governor Rhodes; then to Pennsylvania for a conference with Gubernatorial Candidate Richard Thornburgh. Says Deardourff: "You either win or you lose, and people who lose fall...
...seen was the Alaska election in 1968, when Mike Gravel, then a relative unknown, challenged Incumbent Ernest Gruening in the Democratic primary. On a Saturday a week before the voting, a poll showed Gruening ahead 2 to 1. On Sunday, a heavily promoted film, prepared by Political Consultant Joseph Napolitan, ran on television. On Monday, a new poll showed Gravel ahead, 55 to 45. He then won by that margin...
...shape images on paid political commercials insist that the voter has an adequate protection against their arts in the appearance of the candidate on television news shows, interviews and debates. "We don't have to show the warts," Joe Napolitan says. "They'll come out in the unpaid. The paid and the unpaid are different." There is some validity to the claim, for instance, that the display of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's demagogic qualities is an example of television's ability to reveal the truth about...