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Obama will also be running against the best political strategist in the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton will be able to help his wife in three crucial areas: the framing of issues, timing the dramatic arc of the campaign and damage control. Clinton is the world's best focus group: he has an innate sense of what average folks think is important and how to explain complicated things in the most accessible way. He also understands the weird chronology of presidential politics, the patience needed to last through interminable house parties and candidate forums, the fierce compression of time that will...
...Governor seems to mean it when he says he'll follow the same course this term. "He figured out that Californians want elected officials to cooperate, but this might also be the real Arnold Schwarzenegger," says Darry Sragow, a longtime Democratic strategist. One ceremonial move that has really irked Republicans: He tapped Democrat Willie Brown, a G.O.P. nemesis during his long reign as speaker of the state assembly, to emcee his inaugural festivities this weekend. His legislative wish list, particularly the tenets of his universal health insurance proposal, is a more serious sign. "It looks a lot like the plan...
...some of his more centrist policies isn't an altogether bad thing politically. "The next time his name will be on the ballot in California is going to be in a campaign for the U.S. Senate four or six years from now," says Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist. "The more the conservatives do to push back at him, the more moderate he will look by comparison. As long as he doesn't raise taxes it's difficult to see a conservative candidate beating him in a primary, which means he's free to situate himself right at the political...
Obama will also be running against the best political strategist in the Democratic Party. Bill Clinton will be able to help his wife in three crucial areas: the framing of issues, timing the dramatic arc of the campaign and damage control. Clinton is the world's best focus group: he has an innate sense of what average folks think is important and how to explain complicated things in the most accessible way. He also understands the weird chronology of presidential politics, the patience needed to last through interminable house parties and candidate forums, the fierce compression of time that will...
Investment strategist Byron R. Wien ’54, who has served as a member of the executive committee of the COUR, says that he was concerned by the fact that so many of names on the list were career academics. “One of the great things about Summers was that his experience was broader than just university life,” Wien says...