Word: reed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time Dole arrived, his enemy had a new name. It was no longer Forbes, who had scared the bejeezus out of Dole before Iowa; in fact, Dole campaign manager Scott Reed and Forbes' manager Bill Dal Col suddenly found common cause again, since according to tracking polls many of those who supported Forbes were turning to Alexander. The Dole team quarreled about whom to target. Some said it should be Buchanan, who draws much of his support from places the others cannot go. Others pointed to Alexander, whose surprising third-place finish in Iowa gave him an instant platform...
...candidate. "The right to life is more important to me than the presidency of the United States" he told an Arizona Right to Life meeting. Meanwhile, Dole promised he will slightly temper his attacks on Buchanan. Aides to the Senator say Dole, in response to criticism from Ralph Reed and other religious conservative Republicans, will stop calling Buchanan an 'extremist.' Instead, Dole will take care to take on Buchanan in a more subtle way. Campaigning in Oregon, the Senator did not mention Buchanan's name, but instead attacked his ideas -- "extreme views about women, extreme views about maybe giving nuclear...
...style, the two heads of this campaign's bitterest rivalry are not so much fire and ice as ice and ice. Businesslike but affable, Reed, 35, is efficiency personified. His desk is so meticulously organized that he can pinpoint an individual document in the stacks of neatly piled papers. Pale and intense, Dal Col, 39, resembles a 15th century monk in a Renaissance painting. Yes, he too is efficient ("Both Scott and I make lists of lists," he says), but Dal Col is strung a little tighter. "He never loses his temper," Dal Col says of Reed. "I sometimes blow...
...beginnings of both their political careers were serendipitous. While working as a wind-surfing instructor on the Delaware shore in the summer of 1980, Reed volunteered as a chauffeur for his neighbor, Representative Tom Evans. The Congressman got Reed his first Washington job: driving around a Republican National Committee bigwig who was distributing presidential cuff links to the faithful. Reed's political godfather was consultant Roger Stone, who saw his charge's talent as an organizer and engineered his rise to deputy regional political director for the Reagan-Bush re-election in 1984. Four years later Reed became a shining...
...controversial 1992 convention speech. Forbes resolutely avoided criticism, saying repeatedly, "I preferred Ronald Reagan's speech." Dal Col looked on admiringly. "We never discussed that," he says. "His instincts and discipline make me look good." Plus, says a grateful Dal Col, Forbes carries his own bags. Dal Col and Reed know that ultimately they are only as good as their candidates, and they take solace in the campaign manager's consolation: Victory is always ascribed to the manager, but defeat is chalked up to a lousy candidate...