Celinda Lake
Celinda Lake
Celinda Lake is a pollster and political strategist for the Democratic Party in the United States of America...
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If the Democrats are smart, they will play this thing until it's completely overhauled.
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In this window where people are raising significant questions about Katrina preparation, about port security, there is an opportunity here for Democrats to be quite aggressive on addressing national and homeland security.
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The mood of the public and the errors of the administration really open up tremendous opportunities.
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As part of probably the strongest working team that's existed in decades as president and vice president --Al Gore has not been a ceremonial vice president-- and I think he's going to pick a working partner,
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I've been involved in politics for as long as I can remember.
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They're not red or blue. Women are purple. Eighty percent of women agree on 80 percent of things.
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People are ... particularly risk-averse in bad times. It would be much easier, ironically, to elect a woman president when the economy is good and we weren't at war.
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You don't want to send George Bush back his team.
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It's going to be about what did you do since you voted for the war.
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It's going to be about what did you do since you voted for the war.
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For national Republicans, this 2006 race is really about the presidency, but I don't think that's the case for the people of New York. Clinton is so popular that Pirro can't say, 'She hasn't done a great job for New York.' The only thing you can say is, 'She can't continue doing a great job forever.' Talking about 2008 will help with fund-raising, but it's a pretty weak political argument.
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We have ceded the small business arena far, far too much to the Republican Party. This is a tremendous missed opportunity for the Democrats. Small businesses are the ultimate little guy.
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Women leaders, no matter what party, tend to introduce more leadership around such things as domestic violence and other priorities.
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Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.