Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
Matthew John Dowd is an American political consultant who was the chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney '04 presidential campaign and current ABC News political analyst...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 May 1961
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We think it's important to remember what happened on 9/11 as we devise policies to address what happened, ... is a good ad, laying out the challenges this country's been through. We've had tremendously positive feedback. We're happy with the debate that the ad started, and we want to continue that. That's sort of how we see that.
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Every incumbent president in the last 25 years has been behind the opposition in the latter part of his first term -- the sky is not falling.
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Michigan is one of the opportunities -- and there's not a lot of them when overall the numbers don't look good.
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Voters have a tendency to reward leadership. This means a large body of people are open to hearing what the governor has to say about the next four years.
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Former President Bush's approval on the economy at this same time in 1991 was 28 percent and fell to the mid-teens in 1992.
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Obviously, his look has a high degree of intensity.
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Obviously, a lot of things that the administration had wanted to accomplish in 2005 and going into 2006 were tough.
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moderate buy that will get the message through.
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It's the first time all the candidates will be judged in comparison to others, so they need to be cognizant of people beginning to see this as a choice.
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No matter the ups and downs of the poll numbers, this race will be very close. Thus, without an opponent, the current numbers only capture half the story.
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It shows the public rewards leaders. If you lead and say 'this is what we want to do,' even if you don't succeed in the short run, the public will support you. The public supports infrastructure improvements and they see the governor leading.
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bad news for the Bush team and declared 'the sky is falling' once again.
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This is part of our efforts to highlight what has happened over the last two years. This is sort of the start of that dialogue.
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November will be a very, very close race. But the poll is good news for us and not good news for the Democrats.