Word: rove
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...Bush camp struck first, shipping in the President's father, an old friend of Dispatch publisher John Wolfe's, for a quiet breakfast during the Democratic Convention in July. A long line of other White House allies, including Karl Rove, Ken Mehlman, Treasury Secretary John Snow and Budget Director Josh Bolten, has also marched through the Dispatch's Third Street offices. Last month the President even invited Wolfe and Dispatch president Mike Curtin, along with a reporter, on Air Force One to discuss the issues...
Eager to energize evangelical Christians--4 million of whom White House adviser Karl Rove believes stayed home on Election Day 2000--George W. Bush said he would work to pass a U.S. constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But as the race got under way, the Bush campaign had to decide whether to portray Kerry as a committed lefty or a squishy flip-flopper. Though both caricatures were used, the G.O.P. campaign focused far more on the question of whether Kerry could provide steady leadership in uncertain times. Saying that Kerry takes multiple positions has now made it harder to claim...
...Republicans began building their database, which they call Voter Vault, back in the mid-1990s. It's no accident they got a head start: Bush adviser Karl Rove used to run a direct-mail company, so he knows the value of a few good leads. "We don't say a lot about Voter Vault," notes Christine Iverson, press secretary for the Republican National Committee. "A lot of the information is strategic, and the less the Democrats know the better." Secret it may be, but Voter Vault caused a stir last month when it emerged that the Republicans had--wait...
...Bush Administration, Ken Mehlman, then head of the White House political office, would show up at the daily department heads' meeting carrying a printed sheet of paper with the day's priorities meticulously broken down into hyperorganized points and subpoints. "Everyone is looking at him bemused," Bush adviser Karl Rove recalled to TIME. "Then they all started making their own versions...
...suburban Baltimore, Md. A Harvard Law School grad, he practiced environmental law in Washington but found he was spending much of his free time on campaigns and figured, "Why not get paid for doing my hobby?" He became chief of staff to Texas Republican Congresswoman Kay Granger in 1996. Rove, Granger's campaign consultant, hooked Mehlman up with Bush, then Governor of Texas. Mehlman became field director of the Bush 2000 presidential campaign, in which he focused, as he does in this year's race, on the prosaic mechanics of politics. "I'm not a guru," says Mehlman...