tactical campaign

The two candidates have run detached, tactical campaigns.

Campaign finance reform can be a creative means for replacing tactical campaign posturing with the rule of law.

Roger Bennet Adler, who represented Mr. Norman, also argued that his client had merely tried to assist the judicial candidates in tactical campaign strategy.

Both Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore adopted Mr. Clinton's tactical campaign methods, trying hard to avoid controversial issues and ideological hot buttons.

She will miss the on-the-ground training from such a fight, which would have given her tactical campaign practice in making attacks, answering questions and framing themes that even her allies believe she needs.

The two parties ran such careful tactical campaigns, muted so many of their differences, co-opted so many of each other's issues that they fought to, or bogged down in, a standstill.

"Clinton has a message - moderate now, a New Democrat, whatever that means - and Dole is running a tactical campaign, all about whether he attacks or not, where he campaigns and so on.

Hazelwood first came to prominence as the driver behind the "72-Hour Task Force" in 2001, the party's last major revision to its tactical campaign playbook which is credited with revolutionizing the Get Out the Vote efforts.

Theirs have been narrow, tactical campaigns based more on who they are - Mr. Bush as the true heir to President Reagan, Mr. Dole as a strong leader - than on what they would do.

The Morale Operations Branch took much inspiration for its tactical campaigns from tactics developed by the British, some of which dealt with the regular dissemination of rumors into sources of popular media in Axis occupied or neutral countries.

In opposition the Labour party continued to fractionalise: Goodwin resigned suddenly in 1980 and in the following leadership contest the little-regarded left-winger Ken Livingstone was only just beaten in an intensely tactical campaign by the moderate Andrew McIntosh.

Seventh Air Force operations focused on supporting Army and Naval forces in the tactical campaigns against Japanese forces in the Central Pacific, while Twentieth Air Force performed strategic bombing missions directly against the Japanese home islands.

Senator Bob Kerrey, Democrat of Nebraska, began a tactical campaign to protect the group's proposal from the accusation that it was a belated, last-minute effort, an assertion Republicans and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, are beginning to make.

Some political experts suggested that Mr. Wilder's best tactical campaign strategy would be to concentrate on making a good showing in the New Hampshire primary, the first in the nation, and then shift emphasis to the South, pointing to big votes in primaries where black voters will have the most impact.

So Ahern & Heussner, the New York agency that was awarded Discovery's $3 million-plus account, has produced a "tactical campaign meant to position the network in the media community by informing and educating," George Heussner, executive vice president and creative director, said in a breakfast interview yesterday at the agency's Manhattan office.

To the Editor: Re "Mr. Right Becomes Mr. Rectitude" (column, March 8): While one can easily criticize several of John McCain's tactical campaign decisions, Maureen Dowd's analysis - that Mr. McCain has himself to blame because he became too self-righteous - misses the mark.