The more a candidate's operatives can master all the varying guidelines and get engaged at the grass roots in each state, the more they can assure that people sympathetic to their campaign will end up as delegates.
What still matters most in a national race, candidates and operatives will tell you, is what they rather patronizingly call "earned" or "free" media -- the press.
"Roger has a habit of wrapping his tentacles around a variety of candidates and operatives," said Mr. Caputo, who has worked for figures like Jack Kemp and Boris Yeltsin after apprenticing with Mr. Stone.
Though the rulings have not challenged the bans on direct corporate contributions to parties and candidates, political operatives say that as a practical matter the rulings and a deadlock at the Federal Election Commission have already opened wide latitude for independent groups to advocate for and against candidates.
But Republican candidates and operatives, who rely heavily on the votes of white southerners, and particularly southern white men, have sometimes been driven to cultivate support among gun groups, anti-immigrant groups, "patriot" groups, and other inflammatory organizations that cluster around the right fringes of their party and beyond.
With so many Presidential candidates, political operatives, and interest groups vying to capitalize on the Tea Party brand, there could be a bidding war.
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Now, this net movement has an open line to every player in the party; the conference's speakers included Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean, DLC head Harold Ford, several Obama aides and an array of candidates, wonks, operatives, writers and progressive stars, from Paul Krugman to Samantha Power to Wes Clark.
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However, pediatric patients in hemodynamically unstable conditions due to blunt solid organ injury are considered candidates for operative intervention.
