#campaign

The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#attacks #bush #campaign #changed #country

It just happened that the course of the campaign went negative we actually went positive for a little over a week and you do the tracking of poll numbers and it hurt us. So the public responded to those type of ads. ↗

— Scott McCallum

#ads #campaign #course #happened #hurt

My first obligation is my job. It's very hard to really get into campaign mode when you've got to focus on doing the work. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#doing #first #focus #get #got

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#being #bunch #campaigning #convention #corps

But having said that, what's happening with campaign finance reform and our political culture is devastating. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#campaign finance #campaign finance reform #culture #devastating #finance

The permanent campaign is inherently deceptive. ↗

— Scott McClellan

#deceptive #inherently #permanent

Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#basically #because #campaign #going #largest

The cost of congressional and presidential campaigns has been leaping every two or four years. I think this year it will be 60 percent more than 1996; well over twice as much as in 1992 in the presidential and congressional races. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#campaigns #congressional #cost #every #four

There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity. ↗

— Mike McCurry

#campaign #hours #intensity #many #political

Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances. ↗

— Bob McDonnell

#also #anytime #apparent #because #campaign