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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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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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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Obviously, she needs to raise seed money, and this kind of appeal is a good seed catalogue.
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They need to have a mental clearance sale at the White House. We're not anywhere near the Nixon bunker crisis, but what's going on over there right now is a serious problem.
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It's a happy coincidence of his sponsorship of a popular measure and now a favorable budget situation. It's one bit of good luck after a line of bad luck and lets him wear the white hat again.
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It matters a lot for the party activists. It matters some for primary voters. And it matters a little for undecided general election voters. Even if it matters for 5 percent of the electorate ? no candidate can ignore that.
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This kind of appeal is a good seed catalogue.
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They have the opportunity to build appealing images, but there is also a real chance that they will tear each other down, or that the Republicans will do it for them. In trial heats, Angelides and Westly are not running far ahead of Schwarzenegger.
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They (the Republicans) certainly passed up a chance to help him. He's not worse off than he was a week ago, but he's no better off, either.
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A lot of these folks don't have a great deal of political experience and very often they get off to a strong start, but their lack of experience shows over the course of the campaign. They make rookie mistakes, aren't careful in how they phrase their positions and don't come across in an appealing way to voters.
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In the months ahead, he needs to pick his fights more carefully and show that he can still be a bipartisan problem-solver on at least some issues.
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If the public had its way, legislators wouldn't get paid - they'd get fined,
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If the president's approval numbers go up, he'll have a better chance of getting his way. The president retains a lot of power, and there's a chance his numbers could rebound.