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...widely perceived as a case of political short-sightedness that the Bush team was able to pull away from before it caused any real damage. "Somebody woke up over there and said, 'Whoa, wait a second. This is contrary to Bush being the unifier he wants to be,'" Republican strategist Jim Innocenzi told Thursday?s USA Today...
Brazile, a veteran campaign strategist and political consultant, has also lectured at University of Marlyland/College Park and worked political talk shows...
...still plenty of those: high consumer spending, busy homebuilding, heavy personal and corporate debts. Even as U.S. businesses are clawing their way to profitability, they're in no mood to start hiring again, so consumption still has plenty of room to fall. Meanwhile, warns Merrill Lynch global investment strategist David Bowers, the corporate recovery (particularly in the tech sector) remains vulnerable to events in fragile Japan, as the tumbling yen gives Japanese exporters a pricing edge over their American rivals...
...Republicans know that some of the nominations might prove costly. Bush's choice of Chavez, with her record of union bashing, means that "we have just blown up whatever inroads we had made with the Teamsters," says a seasoned G.O.P. strategist. Teamsters leader James Hoffa has been flirting with bolting from the Democratic Party and seemed receptive to g.o.p. stroking, but Chavez is a bitter pill for even him to swallow. And thanks to Norton, a longtime advocate for oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, the strategist says, "we are also now undone with suburban women...
...affirmative action once in office, Bush can take cover behind the fact that his Cabinet includes fewer white men than any Republican team in history. "Anywhere someone may have a problem, there's a counter to it. It's hard to criticize as a whole," says campaign media strategist Mark McKinnon. "The adults are back in town...