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Nambe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-03 09:15 PM
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Bush aims to be out of reach by time Dems pick candidate (USA Today)
By Judy Keen, USA TODAY


President Bush is building the earliest, most aggressive campaign organization by an incumbent president since Ronald Reagan won re- election in 1984. Bush is aiming to have such a strong head start that Democrats will have trouble catching up after they choose their nominee.

By the time the first votes are cast in the Democratic primary election season, on Jan. 19 at Iowa's caucuses, the Bush campaign plans to have a well-established national organization of chairmen and other staffers in every county in key states, and a leader in every crucial precinct. --

Bush's father held the first fundraiser for his 1992 re-election campaign 12 months before Election Day and didn't name his campaign team until five weeks later. President Clinton named staffers for his 1996 re-election bid 15 months before the election and did a fundraising tour a month later.

Bush announced his top campaign staff 18 months before the election and immediately began raising money. --

Tony Welch, a spokesman for the Democratic National Committee, says Bush must be worried that voters who are angry about the flat economy will deny him a second term. "The good news for us is that all that cash and no primary still do nothing to take the people's focus off the economy," he says. ---

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fizzana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-03 09:30 PM
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1. All the money and the best campaign team won't help
if the economy is still weak and our soldiers are still dying in Iraq this time next year.
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CMT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-03 09:30 PM
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2. Dean can counter that
and the $$ that Bush has. If you have been to a Dean Meetup you know what I mean. Talk about organized--we are organizing ourselves at Meetup, raising money, and doing grass root canvassing, tabeling, and lit drops. Sure Bush will have the big $$ and the state chairmen in place, ect but does he have the troops with the same level of enthusiasm as say, Howard Dean?
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Dover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-03 09:33 PM
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3. Well he's already out of touch, out of his mind, and out of town
Edited on Sun Aug-10-03 09:44 PM by Dover
so he is already out of reach.
Personally I'm counting on him being out of sight AND mind, behind a prison wall soon.

Now that would touch me.
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Sick of Bullshit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-03 11:28 PM
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5. OUTstanding!
:thumbsup::thumbsup:
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dodger2371 Donating Member (15 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-03 09:36 PM
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4. They HOPE that this is true!
America will truly be in Big trouble if Bush wins!
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progressivebydesign Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-10-03 11:41 PM
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6. The first horse out of the gate rarely wins...
Think of Dean as Steve Prefontaine. Bush may want to start strong.. but people will tire of him and his failed economy and nonchalant treatment of the war dead.
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symbolman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 12:25 AM
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7. I wonder how he'll like this commercial?
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Lost4words Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 07:47 AM
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10. Thanks symbolman, I wish I had cash to send.
I hope it makes it on the air, people should see this!

There could be a complete video showing the exodus of jobs out of the country and the juntas war against the working class.

2 years out of work, wife also, aprox 60 days from the street unless I find work. I am 49 years old have worked all my life and HAD retirement savings, Thought I was doing pretty well then the rape of the our democracy 12/12/2000 changed everything.

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jos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 06:02 AM
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8. More Karl Rove propaganda
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 06:11 AM
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9. The American folks love the underdog
The American folks hate the rich and their money, especially now that the middle American is failing to bring home the money they did before junior got in office.

Enron, 911 Investigation, and Dick Cheney secret meetings with the Energy Money Lords of the world will take junior and his crew out of office in 04. So all the kings men and all the kings horses can't put this idiot back in office.
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leesa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-11-03 08:00 AM
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11. Doesn't have anything to do with the American people
This is pure GOP propaganda. It's like the propaganda that says Arnold has been waging a furious campaign (for 36 hours??)and will win California. It all completely defies logic, but the Freepers will go for it.
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