Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Daniel Yankelovich. "But the man didn't live up to the urge. He represented a wish, a gesture of hope, but the sober appraisal of the voters is that he is not ready. There is no reason to believe this race will turn yet again." Declares veteran Democratic Strategist Ted Van Dyk, head of a Washington-based think tank: "Hart shattered his image. Suddenly, he was trying to out-promise Mondale. He tore up the snapshot that forms in voters' minds of every candidate. He can paste it back together, but it will never be the same...
...Democratic officials regard Hart's position as more precarious, noting that, after Pennsylvania, Hart must win roughly two out of every three delegates. "Gary can suffer a loss in Pennsylvania and still be a viable candidate, but he has to win everything after that," says a top party strategist...
...same personality as the frequently defensive and sometimes conciliatory figure he seemed in the New York debate. Mondale was more consistently on the attack, both in ads and as he presented himself for news stories, winch cost nothing. But David Garth, his New York media strategist, contended that commercials rarely have much impact in a presidential primary anyway, because they have only days to get a message across...
...President can also disappear from TV screens when it suits him. No videotape exists of his ordering the Marines to retreat to the ships; this was one announcement he did not make on-camera. As his former political strategist John Sears says, "He walks away from more political car crashes than anyone...
...Hart's standing in the polls rose last week, the question became easier to answer. Gloated Political Strategist Pat Caddell, who advises Hart: "It's everybody at the moment." Caddell agreed that the Senator's early support was concentrated in a "generational" base of voters from their 20s to their early 40s. But in the Vermont primary, Caddell pointed out, some surveys showed Hart outpolling former Vice President Walter Mondale more than 2 to 1 among the 45-to-59 age group and seniors over 60. Other breakdowns similarly showed that Hart's appeal has spread...