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...Whouley discovered it was worse. Bradley volunteers had been knocking on doors since the summer, while Gore floated through the state in 20-car motorcades, aloof and distant, connecting with no one. Whouley asked former New Hampshire Democratic Party chairman Joe Keefe, a key Gore supporter, to send a memo assessing the problem. Keefe let it rip: Bradley was "on fire" in New Hampshire, he wrote. Where Gore had the endorsements, Bradley had the people who mattered--the activists who had delivered the state to Gary Hart in 1984. Coelho was ready to blame the New Hampshire organization, but Whouley...
...Harvard teaching practical legal skills, certainly not," Isbell says. "None of the top tiered schools do. The mid-tier school are much better at 'black letter' law and the mechanics of writing a memo or conducting legal research...
That is in essence the argument that influential Washington lobbyist Haley Barbour, a key adviser to the Bush campaign, has made in a series of memos to House and Senate leaders. He has invoked the damage that Congress did to Bob Dole in 1996 by giving Clinton welfare reform to sign. Former Republican chairman Barbour insists that he made it clear on the cover sheets that he was not speaking on behalf of the campaign, but as a longtime congressional strategist put it, "When people get a memo from Haley, they assume it's what Austin wants." Other sources...
Gore has long been aware that his past could be a problem. As far back as his 1988 presidential race, an internal campaign memo listed his opposition to gun control as a vulnerability, pitting him against law enforcement and his own party base. But only within recent days has Bradley's operation begun to delve more deeply into the issue as a potential area of attack, and as of late last week campaign strategists were still pondering how to use it. "It's certainly an issue that will surface before the March 7 primary," says a senior adviser. Gore...
During this phase, you'll do well to choose your battles carefully. It's silly to expect all parents to share your rules. Says Wolf: "That doesn't even happen in a two-parent family." (Memo to father of 10-year-old girl I know, irked when daughter gleefully watched forbidden The Spy Who Shagged Me at friend's birthday party: It's hardly a matter of physical danger or moral corruption, so give it a rest...