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...Shrum had told me early in the Kerry campaign, which sounded innocent enough-but what he really meant was, We're going to follow our polling numbers and focus groups. We're going to emphasize the things that voters think are important. In fact, Shrum had it completely wrong. Presidential campaigns are not about "meeting the voters where they are." They are about leadership and character. Mark Mellman, Kerry's lead pollster, figured that out too late. "If you asked people what they were most interested in, they would say jobs, education and health care," he later said. "But they...
...about character. In 2004, at a moment of real national consequence for the United States, character was expressed in the most limited, nonpositive way imaginable: I know you don't agree with me-in fact, most polls showed the public thought that Bush had taken the country in the wrong direction-but at least I'm telling some version of the truth as I sort of see it. Oh, and by the way, you can't trust a thing the other guy is saying. This was the clinching argument at a time of war in the world's oldest...
...classic ballroom dances: waltz, Viennese waltz, fox trot, swing, tango, rumba and meringay. And if they dedicate themselves to it, they can compete in the city-wide dance-off at the end of the term. One kids sneers: "Music is corny. There's no feeling." To prove he's wrong, Pierre bends and blends. When someone proposes to mix the standards repertoire with a hip-hop beat, Pierre says, "Two songs, working together. It is a beautiful idea." Like two people, dancing together...
Majumder, who was also rejected from Harvard, said he saw nothing wrong with finding out from FedEx. “A lot of people get too stressed out about waiting...
...former adviser's testimony is wrong and President Bush did not authorize the leak of intelligence information to counter attacks from a critic of the Iraq war, the White House isn't saying so. In fact, the President's men are laying the groundwork for defending the disclosure in case the testimony by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney, turns out to be accurate...