Matthew Dowd
Matthew Dowd
Matthew John Dowd is an American political consultant who was the chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney '04 presidential campaign and current ABC News political analyst...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth29 May 1961
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Michigan is one of the opportunities -- and there's not a lot of them when overall the numbers don't look good.
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It's the first time all the candidates will be judged in comparison to others, so they need to be cognizant of people beginning to see this as a choice.
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We think it's important to remember what happened on 9/11 as we devise policies to address what happened, ... is a good ad, laying out the challenges this country's been through. We've had tremendously positive feedback. We're happy with the debate that the ad started, and we want to continue that. That's sort of how we see that.
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We took one message and designed lots of different avenues to communicate it. They took a lot of different messages and drove them all into one big funnel.
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We can never have enough strategy. We have enough tactics but not enough strategy,
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This is an issue that has an exceedingly high number of threads in it. It involves race, it involves culture, it involves crime, it involves justice.
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Democrats have a problem if they go one way and don't emphasize the rule of law and only have compassion. The Republicans have a problem if they only go with the rule of law. There has to be a balance.