51. Pataki does not have much name recognition, even among people as sophisticated about Republican presidential candidates as New Hampshire cab drivers. 52. Political analyst Stuart Rothenberg said Quayle has a fund-raising advantage over such lesser-known candidates as McCain and House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich of Ohio. 53. Privately, some Bush advisers are worried about the image of the candidate as less-than-smart guy. 54. Relying on the reign of King William is a bit like a general election campaign conducted solely with pictures of the candidates as babies. 55. Republican congressional campaign committees fired back with millions of dollars of ads that portrayed dozens of Democratic candidates as liberals, far from the mainstream. 56. She was regarded by some of the other valedictorian candidates as one of the in-crowd, a membership that somehow had eluded them. 57. Some analysts said Tuesday night that Republicans made a grave mistake in nominating a candidate as divisive and polarizing as North. 58. Surveys show that voters are bored by campaigns about campaigns, and that such chatter reinforces a negative image of candidates as calculating politicians. 59. That is, paint every GOP candidate as one who is out of touch with Latinos, their needs and their growing power. |