Indeed, Mr. Rove's remarks sounded as if he was road-testing themes for the president to use when the war is over and he embarks on the campaign trail.
To avoid the risk of overexposure and early scrutiny, he is operating in a cautious, low-key fashion, building allies among Republicans by doling out money to candidates from his political action committee and testing themes on donors and other supporters with limited news coverage.
One way was to allow the administration "to completely overpower the debate based on, 'I'm the commander in chief, and I know what's best.' " As he road-tests themes for a possible campaign, he argues that his party is running low on ideas for the country's future, so fixated has it been on the threat of terrorism and maintaining itself in power.
Templates are created to generate and test themes in a logical manner, enabling major themes and subthemes to be generated.
We will use a sequential focus groups and analysis process so that the later focus groups can be informed by and test themes emerging from the earlier focus group discussions.
Interviews were analyzed using a constant comparative method that identified and tested emerging themes [ 17, 18].
The theoretical framework was tested using themes, pattern matching and replication logic.
Augmented by a funky seven-piece band, Lucy Pearl offered hearty rhythm-and-blues focusing on time-tested themes like jealous love and lustful romance.
At Davos, however, Trump did test themes and riffs that we are certain to hear again on Tuesday.
Instead, he would ask composer Gabriel Yared to write several test themes and variations based on the screenplay.
Consequently, we classified the studies based on biomechanical testing themes such as direction of force and testing mode.
