Word: strategist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...contradiction. (Helms, in fact, has been a Morris client; the Saint of Calcutta hasn't called him as yet.) What these critics overlook, says Henry Sheinkopf, a consultant who works with Morris on the Clinton media team, "is that Dick is a man of the sensible middle: a brilliant strategist, of course, but one driven by centrist ideas. He wants to draw politicians from the left and right into the mainstream. He does it by using his huge antennae to pick up the issues that are about to move the electorate...
After the verdict, White House advisers were relieved to see polls register little movement--evidence that Whitewater had already been fully priced in by the political market. "People who were going to vote against him over Whitewater made up their minds a long time ago," says Clinton strategist George Stephanopoulos. But "if there were three [new] Whitewater stories a week for the next 20 weeks," he adds, that could move votes for Bob Dole...
...criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic and endlessly repeated negative ads that yoked him fatally to the grisly suicide bombings; the ads were the handiwork of American political consultant Arthur Finkelstein, a reclusive strategist in New York politics who engineered similar attack campaigns for U.S. Republicans...
...their benefits. The White House has been following the state's experiment closely; this is the stuff Clinton likes to read in bed. Clinton also knew that the following Tuesday, Dole would be traveling to Wisconsin to deliver his big welfare address. Knowledge of the Republican choreography, a Clinton strategist says, "drove the timing of our response, if not the substance...
...school. Reforming welfare and opposing same-sex marriage, they insist, are core Clinton beliefs, even though he's done precious little to advance the former and has never had much to say about the latter. "Morris has his eye on one thing above all else," a campaign strategist says. "Keep the President steady. Now that he's claimed the center, make sure he sits still, no matter how bumpy the ride gets...