Stuart Rothenberg Quotes

• [on debates] Accomplished a bit more for Bush than for Gore only because there were more question marks for Bush. I think he established that he possesses at least the minimum qualifications for being president.

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  Thinking   President   Mark  

  "latimes.com: Candidates look to break out in waning days" by Maria L. La Ganga and Mark Z. Barabak, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2000.

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• The Democratic coalition has changed. It includes environmentalists and women's groups. It's a very different party. And so labor is still a part of it, but it's not the dominant part that it once was.

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  Party   Different   Democratic  

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the Republican Party has changed. I think our politics have changed. The parties have deteriorated in their strength. They decentralized. We have these new super PACs and outside organizations and the Tea Party, a libertarian movement in the Republican Party. It's very different. And I think these Republicans now are very scared.

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  Party   Thinking   Tea  

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• It was a very different Republican Party in 2013. And so I think particularly the House Republicans are more confrontational, less willing to compromise even than the Republican class of '94.

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  Party   Thinking   House  

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• California is going to be quite good for the Democrats. But the rest of the country is a draw.

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  Country   California   Democrat  

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• What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

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  Race   Vision   Als  

  "Strong kickoffs by Bush, Gore leave other hopefuls scrambling" by Beth Fouhy, www.cnn.com. June 20, 1999.

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• I think the White House is filled with confrontation, and is doing things to continue it. The White House and congressional Democrats think that they have the upper hand. They look at the surveys, they look at the polls, they think the Republicans are going to get blamed.

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  Thinking   House   Republican  

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• The environment is better and better for Democrats.

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  Environment   Democrat  

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• I think it's less risky for the Kerry campaign to embrace former President Clinton than it is to reject him.

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  Thinking   President   Campaigns  

  "CNN Wolf Blitzer Reports", www.cnn.com. June 14, 2004.

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• If this isn't the Fat Lady singing, it's awful close to that. If Ari seriously thought she was a contender for the presidential nomination, he would not walk away right now.

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  Presidential   Singing   Nominations  

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• Republicans have to be relieved. Given all the bad news this White House has faced, at least the president's hemorrhaging has stopped.

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  White   House   President  

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• We will be drawing down some troops. If the president wants to try to turn that into the beginning of a success, he actually, I think, has some opportunity.

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  Opportunity   Thinking   Drawing  

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• The same electorate that is unhappy with [Pennsylvania's] GOP Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have some qualms with Rendell.

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  Unhappy   Pennsylvania   Unhappiness  

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• The worst time to take a survey is in the middle of a cataclysmic event.

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  Worst  

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