Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Matt Fong, claim the antiimmigrant rhetoric surrounding Prop. 187 left their man "greatly disturbed." Advisers to Lungren admit that he backed 187 but stress that his endorsement was late and lukewarm. As for Wilson, he didn't even attend the G.O.P.'s state convention last February, and a party strategist calls the outgoing Governor's negative image among Latinos "a huge problem...
...eventually worked together on the Mondale campaign in 1984 and for Dukakis in 1988. After that hard, dispiriting race she swore to her husband that she'd never work on another one. That vow lasted until the next one, when she got a call to come work for strategist James Carville at Clinton headquarters in Little Rock, Ark. Currie told high school friend Sefton that she was working for this guy Clinton because after years of backing losers, she thought he really had a chance. Before the race was over, she was working in the Governor's mansion...
...best is over. But this year the trends aren't cooperating. The Republicans are running behind the Democrats in generic polls about the election, as much as 10% in some surveys. No one, especially the G.O.P., wants to be marketing scandal during the autumn. Better, as a Gingrich strategist put it, to intone, "'We have the papers; we're reviewing them. We have the papers; we're reviewing them.' That's what we would say. Over and over...
...urgently persuaded the caller that the allegation would not hold up in public and that coming forward was not worth the certain resultant embarrassment of the accuser. At that moment, it seemed, the full weight of the election's outcome was on the shoulders of a loyal campaign strategist, trying to quash yet one more rumor in the hours before the polls opened. Stephanopoulos today is an analyst at ABC, the first in Clinton's circle (past or present) to suggest that the President's alleged actions might call for impeachment. Such an apparent about-face, from the behind...
Stephanopoulos, unlike Powers and Woods, was not completely "made" by President Clinton. He was acknowledged as an intelligent strategist before the campaign and was central to the election of the President in 1992. We don't know what promises to Stephanopoulos Clinton made and then broke, but this kind of professional independence allowed him to grapple publicly with loyalty to principle where Powers and Woods knew only loyalty to person...