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List of Terms
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★ 247 List of Terms Acela Corridor, 70 accountability, 38 adviser, 27 “American people, the,” 70 appeaser, 2 ash and trash, 11 ask, the, 71 Astroturfing, 130 “as you know,” 38 attack dog, 2 avail, 188 backbencher, 3 backgrounders, 188 beat sweetener, 189 bed-wetter, 4 bipartisanship, 38 blame game, 78| blink first, 100 blowback, 174 Blue Dog, 5 body man, 6 bold, 40 bomb thrower, 7 boomlet, 131 borking, 101 boss, 7 bounce, 131 Bradley effect, 132 bridge builder, 8 brinkmanship, 101 Broderism, 86 budgetese, 102 Cable and Sunday show chatterers, 9 campaigning for a post, 133 cardinals, 10 “cautiously optimistic,” 114 caving, 103 CbO, 102 Chamberlain, Neville, 84 “Chicago politics,” 72 chicken hawk, 18 class warfare, 41 closer, 11 clubhouse turn, 60 clusterfuck, 188 codels, 104 comic self-depreciation, 73 committing candor, 174 common sense, 42 complex, 105 constructive, 43 cooling-off period, 106 cordial, 43 coup, 107 CR, 102 crisis management, 175 crosstabs, 134 dark money, 135 dead-cat bounce, 136 deeply concerned, 44 deeply troubled, 44 deep regret, 45 deficit hawk, 18 248 ★ list of terms Democrat Party, 74 dilatory tactics, 107 disgraced, 178 disingenuous, 46 “distraction from the real issues,” 47 document dump, 179 dog whistle, 136 donor maintenance, 138 “don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good,” 107 double down, 48 downtown, 15 droppin’ the g’s, 139 Drudge hits, 180 earmark, 108 E-fluentials, 11 ego wall, 77 “elections have consequences,” 140 elites, 11 embeds, 181 endgame, 78 entitlement, 13 exceptional, 11 exceptionalism, 13 exploratory campaign, 142 extreme, 62 false flag, 142 “familiar with the thinking,” 181 finance event, 143 fixer, 13 formers, 15 “frankly,” 48 “freedom,” 130 free vote, 108 full Ginsburg, 181 “fundamentally,” 49 funder, 143 future, 144 gaggle, 188 game, 78 game changer, 145 gang, 109 get primaried, 147 Gephardt rule, 110 glide path, 110 goat choker, 189 going rogue, 50 going Zell Miller, 50 good old days, 50 gotcha journalism, 182 GOTV, 148 grand bargain, 111 grassroots campaign, 149 grass-tops, 131 graybeards, 34 grow in office, 15 grownups, 15 happy warrior, 16 hardship porn, 150 Hastert rule, 112 having to explain, 183 hawks, 17 hideaways, 113 high-class problem, 51 Hitler, 83 hit piece, 189 hog housed, xi “honeymoon is over, the,” 190 [3.239.214.173] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 02:27 GMT) ★ 249 list of terms “hope springs eternal,” 114 hot mic, 183 hypothetical, 183 “I don’t want to go negative,” 130 “I endorse . . . ,” 151 “I’m focused on . . . ,” 52 “I misspoke,” 184 “I’m just raising the question,” 53 “I’m sorry if I offended anyone,” 54 in cycle, 153 influentials, 18 infrastructure hawk, 18 inside game, 78 internals, 154 investment, 79 “It remains to be seen,” 189 “I want to spend more time with my family,” 55 job creators, 154 judicial activism, 80 “justice,” 130 Kabuki theater, 190 Kinsley gaffe, 186 . . . Land, 81 left-wing loony, 19 “Let me be clear,” 56 “Let me tell you,” 56 lid, 189 lunches, 115 Luntzisms, 83 marker, 115 “master of disaster,” 187 media terms, 188 meme, 190 micro-targeting, 155 “minimum high regard,” 56 misleading, 46 “mistakes were made,” 46 money blurt, 156 money bomb, 156 Monty Python and politics, 157 “most important election of our lifetime, the,” 170 “most vulnerable,” 57 Mr. Chairman, 20 “my good friend,” 58 narrative, 191 Nazi, 83 nerd prom, 191 Neville Chamberlain, 84 “next . . . , the,” 192 nonessential, 85 “nut-cutting time,” 116 obstructionism, 117 October surprise, 158 odd couple, 118 off the reservation, 59 “old news,” 175 on background, 193 one-minutes, 119 “only poll that matters is the one on Election Day, the,” 171 on message, 193 on the flagpole, 119 opening statements, 120 250 ★ list of terms “operate government like a business,” 159 operative, 20 oppo, 160 optics, 162 other body, 121 outside game, 78 Overton window, 86 package, 87 parse, 194 PAYGO, 102 pen and pad, 188 pivot, 60 Pledge, the, 87 P90X, 122 poli-fluentials, 11 “politics ain’t beanbag,” 164 pool, 189 pool spray, 189 “poor choice of words,” 45 pork, 123 presser, 188 principal, 21 progressive, 21 process story, 189 push poll, 164 “question we should be asking, the,” 195 quixotic, 190 quote approval, 196 radiator-capping, xi radical, 61 “reasonable Republicans,” 23 red meat, 89 regular order, 123 resources, 79 revenue, 79 revolving door, 90 RinO, 23 roach motel, 100 robocalls, 165 “San Francisco values,” 91 score-setting books, 92 scrum, 188 “senior administration official,” 197 sequester, 103 Sherpa, 25...