ON THE PROWL
ON THE PROWL fundraising issues inside the campaign than talk in the media would suggest. “He didn’t focus on the fundraising in the first quarter,” says one fundraiser. “He didn’t...
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...ning in New Hampshire Charlie Crist...
...The question is whether or not he wants to get in now, or in the fall, when some of the other folks are faltering...
...Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign in fighting against attacks on his leadership...
...According to campaign insiders, the campaign has had an ongoing “opposition research” program going on the former President, monitoring his trips and who he meets both publicly and privately, and those names, dates, and events are being fed into a database...
...Good as Feingold For all the talk that the presidential campaign of Sen...
...Fingered in Florida It didn’t go unnoticed that in early April, New York Mayor into the true fiscal conserRudy Giuliani spent vative in the race...
...The Real Romney In the weeks leading up to Easter, the Mitt Romney campaign Pounding Away Al Gore has hired a personal trainer and, according to former staffers, gone on a form of the “South Beach Diet”—the same one his former boss Bill Clinton at one time used—to drop between 60 to 80 pounds...
...John McCain is faltering, advisers say that there is less concern about the 12 THE AMERICAN SPECTATOR Last year, for his leadership PAC, there was talk in fundraising cir cles that McCain’s people were having trouble meeting their event minimums...
...John McCain, but some believe Crist may be looking to hop on another candidate’s bandwagon if the man from Arizona continues to flail...
...On the one hand, it’s probably necessary, because no one believes that Romney is a social conservative...
...Crist is friendly with Sen...
...It isn’t one that the candidate necessarily is looking at, but it’s one the campaign wants to keep updated...
...Talk of less than stellar donor numbers has been lingering over the McCain campaign for months, long before this protracted primary season began...
...Those guys just loved his anti-war positions in 2004, they ate that stuff up...
...He’s really looking at where the MoveOn.org types and the far-left of the party are going with other candidates,” says another former staffer...
...MAY 2007 ON THE PROWL began to move away from the social conservative base and focus on the fiscal conservatives instead...
...Is he thinking about another presidential run...
...That plan—in the form of a PowerPoint presentation—eventually made it into the hands of an opposing campaign after a copy of it was taken from a satchel belonging to one of Giuliani’s associates… while they were in Florida campaigning for Crist last fall...
...And his environmental stuff plays well, too...
...The Past Is Now Much is being made of former President Bill Clinton having had his staff at the Clinton Library in Little Rock do a complete vetting of his presidency in order to assist Sen...
...There is no question we’ll come through for him, and that he’s going to have to work the money angle for the next couple of months...
...We know what we have to do this quarter and we’re going to do it,” says another McCain fundrais er...
...Clinton’s campaign is focusing on the personal...
...Before formally announcing his desire to run for president, Giuliani and his associates had put together a plan for launching a presidential bid...
...of a clear frontrunner in the Democrat field and is looking for some hint that his late entrance to the race would be a welcome one...
...The program is going to be increasingly important, some Clinton insiders say, because the ex-President and the Senator will most likely not be campaigning much together in the coming months...
...White House should have used...
...Instead of trying to overcome the flip-floppery, the campaign will attempt to refashion Romney “It’s a gamble,” says a political consultant working on another presidential campaign in discussing Romney’s makeover...
...Clinton is focusing on policy and politics, Mrs...
...He just thought he looked really fat at the Oscars,” says one...
...No, according to the former aides...
...ON THE PROWL fundraising issues inside the campaign than talk in the media would suggest...
...Folks haven’t seen anything that would set off alarms, but it makes sense—given the President’s history—for them to keep an eye on things...
...He didn’t focus on the fundraising in the first quarter,” says one fundraiser...
...But make no mistake, Gore has noticed the lack as many events as other candidates, so it’s not surprising he didn’t do as well...
...The reason: Bill can fundraise and glad hand, but Hillary is still trying to shape her image, and to have Bill along for the ride would remind voters not of a future, but of the past, and not a very pretty past, to be sure...
...Already, time in Tallahassee Romney has TV ads runwith Florida Gov...
...On the other hand, by repackaging him, it appears the campaign is committing a major flip-flop...
...He can have a base if he wants it...
...He didn’t do But while Mr...
...Crist and his aides loudly denied that they were the sources, though we’ve confirmed the person directly involved in the dirty trick is now no longer employed by Crist, having quietly been let go some time back...
...Campaign insiders say that senior advisers to Romney have been frustrated that the former governor has been unable to shake the flip-flop label as a result of his shifting positions on abortion, gay marriage, gun rights, and stem-cell research...
...By all and Iowa focusing on his accounts the meeting role as a corporate execu went just fine, but the tive and his joy in vetoing back-story to it is legislation, an approach the what was really intercurrent inhabitant of the esting...
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