Word: schmidt
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...conference call on Wednesday with reporters, the campaign laid out its cards. "It's beyond dispute that he has become the biggest celebrity in the world," Schmidt said of Obama. "The question we are posing to the American people is this: Is he ready to lead...
...debate has come to an end, and the more aggressive approach has clearly won out. The McCain campaign, under the direction of its new leader, Steve Schmidt, has settled on a story line that could last through the election. It is, at root, an experience argument, adjusted to undercut the enormous enthusiasm that Obama generates. It can be seen in the recent McCain campaign ad that compares Obama to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton, or the recent Republican Party ad that compares Obama to David Hasselhoff. It can be seen in the recent self-deprecating distribution of "junior varsity" press...
...Ohio while Buckeye State Republicans scrambled to come up with events to fill the suddenly empty schedule. Going to the German sausage restaurant while Obama was in Berlin probably endeared him to a lot of voters in the central Ohio, a pivotal region in a key swing state where Schmidt's bratwurst are a point of local culinary pride. But the picture of him emerging from the joint with almost nothing to say while Obama was talking to 200,000 in the Tiergarten might have had a shrinking effect on McCain's rep elsewhere. It was after those three, horrible...
...always, there were limits. The White House quietly pushed two other Republicans for the G.O.P. nomination in 2005 - first Bill Frist and then George Allen, both of whom flamed out. Even as some of his own top campaign advisers, including McKinnon, Nelson and Steve Schmidt, went to work for McCain, Bush doubted McCain's chances of winning the G.O.P. nomination. "The President was never one to count McCain out," says a former senior Bush aide, "but he felt like [Mitt] Romney was the best positioned." Though his campaign has been coordinating with the White House through regular conference calls ever...
John McCain has retooled his campaign - yet again - and put Steve Schmidt, a veteran of Karl Rove's old shop, in charge of the day-to-day operation. He's back out again doing what he says he loves best, mixing it up with voters in town hall settings. Where he once professed not to know much about the economy, it's now what he talks about constantly. But in spite of all the changes, there is still one key hurdle that McCain has yet to overcome, something a supporter in Portsmouth, Ohio, summed up pretty neatly...