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...thrust of negative campaigning more than the late Lee Atwater, who applied to politics the ancient military maxim: Know yourself, and know your enemy. As manager of George Bush's 1988 campaign, Atwater emphasized the role of what he called the "35 excellent nerds" in his Opposition Research, or "Oppo," unit. They pored through the political record of Michael Dukakis and dug up the emotional issues -- the Pledge of Allegiance, Willie Horton -- with which Bush battered his rival...
Ever since, the term Oppo has conjured to many Democrats sinister images of muckraking and distortion. In fact, Oppo was a vital component of major local and national campaigns long before 1988. And practitioners in both major parties distinguish between "political pornography" and legitimate inquiry into public statements and actions that might bear on an opponent's fitness to hold office. Fred Malek, manager of the Bush campaign, says his campaign's research efforts are aimed at scanning old and current news stories and other public records and coding them into computers by topic, "so that we can pull...
...Oppo shop at the Bush campaign employs six paid staffers and about a dozen young volunteers under the direction of David Tell, a slender, red- bearded 32-year-old who, friends wryly note, flicks his Camel butts into an "Elvis Lives" ashtray. This team is helped by a staff of 20 to 40 people at the Republican National Committee who work shifts through the night, when time is available on the RNC mainframe computer. Comparable staffs at the Democratic National Committee and Clinton campaign number about 30. The Perot campaign says it employs only two researchers. All the campaigns eagerly...
...inherited wealth and clannish up bringing were mixed blessings. His ad vantages could have cut him off from the world; instead, they helped him to perceive the miseries of those at the oppo site end of the social spectrum. His sympathy for the wretched of the earth was visceral. But he had undisguised patrician contempt for the middle class, those who hankered after comforts he took for granted and who felt threatened by the prospect of militant poor. Significantly, Kennedy's most bitter political enemies were men, like L.B.J., who had scrambled up from poor or straitened childhoods...
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