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...campaign headquarters three days a week. Pollster Tom Kiley was charged with keeping track of voter opinion in New Hampshire. The press office had cleared out with Jordan, so she brought in Michael Meehan, Kerry's 1996 campaign spokesman, and hired Stephanie Cutter, Kennedy's former spokeswoman. Michael Whouley, one of the most gifted organizers in the party (and a product of St. Peter's parish), also came aboard and agreed to make a quiet reconnaissance trip to Iowa a few days before Thanksgiving. Between Jordan's hires and Cahill's, there were at least two of everything--pollsters, consultants...
Kerry has taken out loans to put $6.5 million of his fortune into his campaign and has moved much of it into Iowa--along with such savvy operatives as Michael Whouley, who ran Al Gore's ground game. He has fired his campaign manager, installed some Teddy Kennedy hands at the top and on Saturday brought out Kennedy (who finished second in the 1980 Iowa caucuses, challenging Jimmy Carter) to campaign with him in Davenport, Dubuque and Cedar Rapids. Kerry's speeches have become shorter and more passionate. For Kerry, Iowa seemed to ignite the fire in his belly while...
...early-primary states (including a leg up on everyone else in neighboring New Hampshire). His marriage to Heinz, widow of Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz, gives him the option of tapping substantial financial assets. And he has assembled the strongest and toughest team of campaign operatives, including Michael Whouley, who ran Al Gore's impressive ground operation...
That's the kind of thing even the Bush White House notices. "See who gets Whouley," a senior official there fretted a few months ago. "He really matters." And more important, it's the kind of thing donors notice. "I think that John Kerry is the Democrat most likely to win back the White House, and that's what this election is about," says Alan Solomont, a Boston-area nursing-home executive and former Democratic National Committee finance chairman, who hasn't always supported Kerry in the past...
...Associated Press reported last week that the Joyce campaign had already raised $600,000 to the $575,000 raised by runner-up Lynch, who now hopes to benefit from the fund-raising and strategy skills of Democratic political operative Michael Whouley, a Dorchester native...