Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Independent John Anderson got 23%, and the President scored only 20%. In Philadelphia, once a bastion of Democratic machine politics, a private poll taken last week by supporters of Senator Edward Kennedy rated Reagan ahead, Anderson second and Carter last. Insisted a gleeful Paul Kirk, Kennedy's chief strategist: "Candidate Carter is on a mudslide...
...also owns the world record in the 1,000 meters and shares the 1,500-meter mark with Ovett, likes to concentrate on the clock rather than the competition. His lack of head-to-head experience may have cost him against Ovett, a superior strategist. "My idea was to do what everybody else was going to do, but do it a bit quicker," Coe said later. "I don't remember any mistakes, but there was a fair amount of pushing. I felt a lot of pressure from a lot of people in the race." Asked about his rival...
...region that looks particularly promising for Republican gains among working people is the South. That is the thrust of a memo written to Reagan by one of his Southern strategists, Lee Atwater, who thinks the blue-collar workers hold the balance of power in the area. If they could be converted, the South could eventually be solid, he concludes, for Republicanism. Some evidence supporting this view comes from Texas, where the G.O.P. primary contest between Reagan and Bush drew a record 510,000 people to the polls. Says Reagan's Texas strategist Ernest Angelo: "There was just a greater degree...
...share the credit with anyone. Ever since he fired Campaign Manager John Sears last February, Reagan has been his own boss, and who can argue with success? He breezed through most of the primaries, brushing aside his opponents without really seeming to be trying. But as a Republican strategist who backs Reagan says, "It was historical momentum rather than operational depth or skill that won it." When the going gets rough in the months ahead, Reagan will need solid work from a staff that has shown some alarming signs of disorganization...
Pollster and Strategist Richard Wirthlin smiles all the time and has reason to: his estimates are usually right on target...