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From the looks of his resumé, Republican strategist Lanhee J. Chen ’99 might seem like a professional flip-flopper...
...good. With his from-modest-roots biography, his conservative positions on abortion, guns and gay marriage, and his deep Arkansas knowledge of Clinton-style politics, Huckabee "has earned his support" among the stop-Hillary Evangelicals who form the backbone of Iowa Republicanism, in the words of veteran strategist Ed Rogers. "But he hasn't had any live ammo fired at him yet," Rogers continues. "That's about to change...
...Obama. Suddenly for Obama, as Lincoln wrote of his own presidential aspirations in 1860, "the taste is in my mouth." Voters began to see that he really wanted the job he was campaigning for. "There's a certain joy to it that I see in him now," says his strategist David Axelrod. "I just sensed from that point on that sort of incredible focus, energy, acuity, joy. He's into...
...very careful about how he attacks her," says Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore's campaign manager in 2000 but is not backing any candidate in this race. "He talks about the Clinton years as a failure, when most Democrats know differently." And as a prominent Democratic strategist noted, "I am not convinced this campaign has any sense of how hard the Clintons fight when they feel their birthright is being challenged. I am not sure they are ready for this...
...crisis could be decades away. They accuse Obama of buying into the dire scenarios with which the Bush Administration tried--unsuccessfully--to partially privatize the system. New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went so far as to write that Obama had been "played for a fool." Adds a Clinton strategist: "This whole conversation is bewildering. Every Democrat in America has spent the past several years arguing that Social Security is not in a crisis...