Word: exploits
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...streamline and exploit the issue during his Democratic Convention speech, Gore tried breaking the tax cuts into the kind of currency all Americans can understand: diet soda. He warned that Bush's costly plan would deliver little to most Americans. The "average family," he said, would wind up with only enough additional money to buy an extra Diet Coke a week...
That kind of warfare is one sort of electoral politics that Gore enjoys and excels at. When the campaign heats up and it's time for fiery words, he says, "then I get over the hump and into gear. And really relish it." He has an ability to exploit opponents' weaknesses and craft policy nuggets that double as political grenades. He doesn't mind going right to the line, or even across it. In 1991, in a presidential campaign, he said during a rare unguarded moment that you have to be willing to "rip the heart and lungs...
...could prove difficult to exploit politically. For one thing, Cheney has won high marks for his stewardship at Dallas-based Halliburton, transforming it into the world's largest provider of oil-field services. He arrived in 1995 and boosted the fortunes of a company beset by low oil prices and slow growth, raising revenues to $15 billion. Cheney's high-level contacts in Washington and around the world helped bring in business. Under Cheney, the company's Brown & Root construction subsidiary has worked hand in hand with the Democratic Administration--as it had done before him with the Bush White...
...tuned out of a presidential campaign," says Ronald Reagan's famous imagemaker, Michael Deaver. "People are going to make their decision based on the impression a candidate makes more than anything else." Like John Kennedy, who ran in the prosperity of the Eisenhower years in 1960, Bush must exploit Americans' desire for what chief strategist Karl Rove calls "reasonable change"--a yearning for what they already have, only better. And so the Bush pitch is basically this: that he will be a centrist consensus builder who won't squander today's prosperity but will make Americans feel good about their...
Stay away from Clinton-esque scandal, but exploit his record. The last eight years haven't been all Lewinsky, you know. There's a legacy of Democratic success to build...