Job was his -- and Emanuel delivered [View All]

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November 8, 2006
BY LYNN SWEET Sun-Times Columnist
While other Democrats were predicting they would retake the House, Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.) was cautious and more than a bit superstitious.

The House Democratic political boss would only say of the ripening potential for Democrats that he would "rather be us than them."

He was right. Was he ever.

For the last 22 months, Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, has with a singular focus ran a tough-love political organization that Tuesday reclaimed a Democratic majority they lost in 1994. That sets the stage for the first female speaker of the House, Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who tapped Emanuel for the job.

Emanuel is the architect -- the master political strategist -- behind the Democratic win . . .


more: http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/128180,CST-NWS-sweet08.article



NEWS CONFERENCE WITH REP. RAHM EMANUEL (D-IL), CHAIRMAN, DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN
SUBJECT: ELECTION RESULTS AND AGENDA

WASHINGTON, D.C.
11:14 A.M. EST, WEDNESDSAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2006

http://www.fednews.com/transcript.htm?id=20061108t0819



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