Kevin Madden
Kevin Madden
Kevin Maddenis often quoted as a pundit or public relations professional in newspapers and magazines and appears regularly on television news and talk shows, largely on cable news programming in the United States. He was a senior advisor to and spokesman for Mitt Romney's 2012 U.S. presidential campaign...
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One of his frustrations was that everybody wanted to hire consultants, sit around ... and talk endlessly about problems rather than define solutions.
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It can be done without trying to browbeat people.
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Thankfully, constituents, colleagues within the (Republican) conference and the folks who really know John Boehner put absolutely no weight or stock in those types of frivolous attacks against him.
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The president's leadership on the issue of homeland security is a policy area where he's been very decisive and has backed up his policy priorities with funding,
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The players and love of the game keep him going. He still has an undying love for what he's doing.
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There are literally thousands of e-mails like this sent by (Capitol) Hill staff members every day.
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We make every effort to work with key staff in these offices to sync up our legislative and communications offices so they have the very best access and the very best information about what issues the conference is working on and how we can help them message with constituents back home.
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President Obama should be championing American prominence, not apologizing for it.
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Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce some people's opportunity to grab the bottom rung of the economic ladder to get the opportunities and the skills that you need to move up that economic ladder.
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We did a lot right with the voters with whom we've enjoyed traditional support. But we haven't done enough to build a larger coalition of voters. We have to modernize our message to reach a larger audience of voters beyond our base.
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Trying is not enough. We have to go out and set goals and measure definitive progress so that four years from now we are in a better position to add new voters to our base of support.
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Obama microtargeted his way to re-election by pitting Americans against each other in many instances. In order to confront the challenges the nation faces, he's really going to have to put his 2008 rhetoric about bringing people together into practice. Otherwise his legacy will only be that of a great campaigner whose promises fell short of accomplishment.
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Without hesitation, each time, my answer was our standing with Hispanics and Latinos. We must do a better job of reaching out to these communities and demonstrate to them that our party is aligned with the aspirations Hispanics have for their families and for America.
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The brutality of the pace. This was my third presidential campaign and it was a thousand times faster paced than my first one in 2004. The news cycle is constant and there has been an explosion in the number of news outlets covering them. As as result we're witnessing news and entertainment melding together to create what I'd describe as the "American Idolization" of campaigns and politics.