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...playing. Obama will be the public face and voice of his Administration. He'll set the tone. Emanuel will oversee the hard work of running the White House and pushing the agenda in the halls of Congress. "The job now is to translate the dreams into reality," says Paul Begala, a Clinton White House veteran who knows Emanuel well. "Barack will be the inspiration; Rahm will be the perspiration." (See pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...
...Begala, Paul •reference to McCain as "Grumpy McNasty...
...Once again, Pennsylvania is a harbinger," says Paul Begala, whose ties to the state go back to that seismic Wofford campaign in 1991, which Begala ran with his partner James Carville. But a harbinger of what, exactly? The Obama-Clinton fight has taken a standard party script and turned it upside down...
...news for Hillary is that the middle-class working people who were the heart of the party in the days of Sam Rayburn and Lyndon Johnson have gone to the Republicans," says Paul Begala, a Texas Democrat who helped Bill Clinton reach the White House in 1992. "We still have the latte drinkers, but the cuppa-joe drinkers are mostly gone, and the Democrats have to find a way to bring them back...
...decision to target undecided voters turns out to be the least obvious of the many Kerry mistakes ticked off by consultants on both sides. There was the decision not to go negative. (Mocked by Paul Begala with an eye-roll worthy of Paul Lynde.) There was the decision not to respond immediately to the Swift Boats for Truth ads ("John Kerry should have gotten pissed" says one former volunteer). There was the decision to leave get-out-the-vote operations to independent groups - known as 527s - rather than let the central operation mastermind the whole thing...