Jack Pitney
Jack Pitney
William Jackson "Jack" Pitneywas an American marketing executive with BMW as vice president of marketing, where he played a major role in convincing company leadership to go ahead with distribution of the MINI in the United States, despite concerns that car buyers there would not buy cars that small given the popularity of sport utility vehicles...
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I think you'll see a more subdued governor. He'll be someone who chooses his words more carefully and who sweats the details with more rigor.
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It's not an appeal that tends to work with the electorate, but Pirro's going to be able to raise a lot of money from people around the country.
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It's a missed opportunity. Had it gone through, he could begin to rebuild his image as a bipartisan problem-solver. He can still do that, but as the year wears on, partisan conflict will make that harder.
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The advantage of a wholesale change is the chance to put a fresh face on the party. The downside is that the political community might read it as a sign of worry.
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At the depths of the '82 recession, Reagan looked like a goner, but the economy came back and so did Reagan's fortunes? He stayed the course. Had he faltered in his policies in '82, we might not have seen as much progress in '83 and '84.
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This year, it was Schwarzenegger versus an idea. Next year, it will be Schwarzenegger versus flesh-and-blood opponents. And we've seen in all his movies that he is very good at dispatching with flesh-and blood-opponents.
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Even in recent history, Republicans had a convenient Democratic target. During the Clinton administration, they ran against Clinton. Then (former Senate Majority Leader) Tom Daschle and the obstructionists of the Senate, but now that they control, if you want to separate yourself from Washington, you have to separate yourself from other Republicans.
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I don't have an inside line to (the pharmaceutical association), but I suspect they won't be too broken up if people decide, 'We can't tell which is which, so we're voting against both of them,'
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At the moment, a lot of people regard both major parties as unattractive. That's partly due to the polarization of politics. The Democrats might be a little too liberal and the Republicans a little too conservative.