Jack Pitney
Jack Pitney
William Jackson "Jack" Pitneywas an American marketing executive with BMW as vice president of marketing, where he played a major role in convincing company leadership to go ahead with distribution of the MINI in the United States, despite concerns that car buyers there would not buy cars that small given the popularity of sport utility vehicles...
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There's plenty of time to criticize. I think two years from now, nobody is going to remember what these people said.
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Schwarzenegger has huge problems. But other governors have climbed out of the poll pits to win re-election.
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Public opinion has a short list of bad guys, and the drug companies are on it. That can be hurtful to Proposition 78.
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Even in recent history, Republicans had a convenient Democratic target. During the Clinton administration, they ran against Clinton. Then (former Senate Majority Leader) Tom Daschle and the obstructionists of the Senate, but now that they control, if you want to separate yourself from Washington, you have to separate yourself from other Republicans.
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At the depths of the '82 recession, Reagan looked like a goner, but the economy came back and so did Reagan's fortunes? He stayed the course. Had he faltered in his policies in '82, we might not have seen as much progress in '83 and '84.
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At the moment, a lot of people regard both major parties as unattractive. That's partly due to the polarization of politics. The Democrats might be a little too liberal and the Republicans a little too conservative.
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Core supporters will take this a cue, particularly Republicans who have not been paying close attention. And a lot will depend on whether Republicans can follow through in the ground game.
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The advantage of a wholesale change is the chance to put a fresh face on the party. The downside is that the political community might read it as a sign of worry.
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If they take a drubbing in 2006 look for major changes as they organize for the next Congress.
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I don't have an inside line to (the pharmaceutical association), but I suspect they won't be too broken up if people decide, 'We can't tell which is which, so we're voting against both of them,'
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Obviously, she needs to raise seed money, and this kind of appeal is a good seed catalogue.
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Politicians back to Washington have evoked that story, but it's not really true. Eisenhower, for example, cultivated an image as a non-politician, even though you don't get to be a five-star general without being a politician.
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This year, it was Schwarzenegger versus an idea. Next year, it will be Schwarzenegger versus flesh-and-blood opponents. And we've seen in all his movies that he is very good at dispatching with flesh-and blood-opponents.
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No matter what he decides, a large number of people are going to be angry at him.