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Beth Myers

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first: 2016-06-13
most recent: 2016-06-13
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“He had a very different approach than Mr. Teeter. And Arthur, though, he's so brilliant and he's mentored so many people who are prominent in the field today. We had a party for him in New York a couple years ago, just all his acolytes. And it was a roast, but it was an amazing room full of people. What I learned from Arthur really was an entirely different way to read polls. So I feel like I learned how to read polls from two of the masters in two very different ways.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And that was a fun campaign where I met my third mentor, Arthur Finkelstein, who is a towering figure. And I laugh. He's a great friend still. And he really, the first time he met me, he didn't really like me because I came from his rival, Bob Teeter.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. And so I was the young kid in the corner and kept my mouth shut in my ears and eyes open and learned a ton in the time I was, in the three years I was in Detroit. And then I left market opinion research and went back to Boston to work for Ray Chammy for United States Senate for”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean, I learned polling from a true pollster, a statistician who had a team of statisticians, Fred Steeper, Alex Gage, Will Pheltus. These are all guys.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, and I wasn't actually there for polling, although I went there. They were doing a project on get out the vote and voter contact out of their polling firm. They were trying to sort of expand. Their service line. And I did that in 82, and I was the, and they kept me on. And I learned at that, you know, in 83 how to do. Polling and I learned how to pull tables and I learned a little bit about statistics and I learned a little bit about sampling which at that point was done with a bunch of phone books in a room and It was a great education.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Republican polling? Yeah. He was the person that I really, another person that I view as one of my mentors. absolutely a towering figure, a respected. A man of impeccable integrity. And I actually learned at market opinion research. I was doing, they had a.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I went back to Boston for a few months. Actually, I don't know how many months, but then I went to work at Market Opinion Research in Detroit for Bob Teter.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it wasn't intended. And then an establishment. Yeah, I mean, it was a big tent. Remember, that was sort of, there was no sense of exclusion. There was no sense of if you're not with us 100%, you're not with us enough. If you were with, you know, Reagan famously said, if you're with me 80%, you're with me. And so it was a very, very natural thing to do. I never felt like I was one of the Connolly people. I was a Reagan person from the minute that I was. Raise my hand, and that was great. It was a lot of fun.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The camp no And it seemed like the normal thing to do my guy lost. I want to go work for the guy that won. And I was welcomed, by the way. There was like, of course, well, you know, we've got somebody who actually learned how to do this stuff. Well, Reagan.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, after the primary campaign, it seemed like, actually, I was, of course, 23. I was not caught up in anything very sophisticated level. Weren't the stress?”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, we were doing something very sophisticated at the time we were collecting the data that we got from our phone banks and sending different letters. So if you were an undecided voter, you got a different letter than if you were a favorable voter and they were all hand addressed.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It hasn't changed. Things haven't changed that much. I mean, there's a lot, you know, voter contact was, you know, we were looking for the way to touch people in the most personal way you could.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you know, at the end of the campaign, I put together this notebook for him. Which is half handwritten because the way you did it in 1980, there wasn't computers or anything. And I was clearing things out and I found that the other day.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, Carl was one of, you know, I feel very lucky. I had three mentors, and I'll tell you about all three of them, but Carl was the first. And what I learned from Carl was details and determination. I mean, he was just the same as an enthusiasm. He was determined to win that state for Ronald Reagan, and we were not going to leave a single stone unturned. He would come into my office and ask me about how we were doing in Comanche County. And if I didn't know it off the top of my head, so you see that slab down there?”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“and went back and worked there in 82 for Governor Clements' re-election when he lost. And then again in 86 when he's a good experience.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I traveled all over that state and I got to know, which is a big state. It's a huge state. And I got to know those counties like the back of my hand.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So Clements and his wife Rita, both powerful forces in the Republican Party of Texas and getting it to the state to change from D to R. And my job was to get out the vote in all of the non-urban counties. And so non-urban meaning outside of Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio, and Houston.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Really weird. But the victory committee was in the basement where the slab was. There was still a slab and that was somebody's desk, which is really creepy. And the first floor, and then the second floor was the Reagan campaign. And so. It was a big deal. The governor of Texas put his name on the line, his friend George Bush was the VP, and he went all out. Bill Clark.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, it was a battleground state. Look, there was one elected statewide. That's true at that time. John Tower was the senator, and Bill Clemens was the first Republican governor to Texas hadn't turned yet.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so he was the person actually originally had reached out to. I got hired by the Reagan folks. thought that the right place to send a person who had never been West or South of Ohio was Texas. And so off I went. My father gave me really good advice.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I say that the most popular governor in the United States and doing a fantastic job. So as in politics, the people that you meet along the way are wonderful and have interesting futures and you don't know it then, but it was really fun. Working with Charlie back when we were puppies was a lot of fun. And then I sort of raised my hand to the Reagan campaign and said, hey, that was kind of a fun job. So I'd love to come and work for you guys. And they hired me.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We had it was a wonderful experience because one of the people that I worked with on that campaign was Charlie Baker, who is now our governor of Massachusetts.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, he called me and said when I was actually on a shift at the bar and said, Would you be interested in working for the John Colley for president? I said, sure. And he said, well, we're on our way over. I'm on my way over with Chip Andrews and we'll interview you. And so I was interviewed for my first presidential campaign wearing a rugby shirt and jeans. And they hired me. And it was... In a bar.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, no, nothing would have hurt my tips. It was loud music. There weren't a lot of conversations about philosophical things at Jack's Bar in Cambridge in the 70s.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, and this was a bar between Harvard Square and Central Square. So we were right in the thick of things in Cambridge. And so he asked me if I wanted, he called me.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“By John Connolly for president, and he had talked to me and knew I was a Republican too or conservative. And since I was the only other conservative he knew, he asked if I wanted to work on the presidential candidate. Not a lot of”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I kind of got interested in politics by, I mean, in the late 70s, there was a great conservative intellectual movement. I mean, I was reading people like dictators and double standards by Gene Kirkpatrick and William F. Buckley, early George Will stuff. And there was just a lot of interesting ideas, the Viennese economists. I mean, once you kind of started going down that rabbit hole, Ayn Rand's fiction, all that was really great. When I was taking classes, I would, I took a lot of philosophy classes, and the 20th century Marcuse Foucault, they just didn't resonate with me at all. And I started reading conservative writers, and I thought, yeah, I get this. And it really turned me on. And I was working at this bar, and one of the bartenders was hired.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Democrat then Roan County was very Republican. And you could tell the difference when you entered Roan County because the roads got, highways got a little bump here. But I went to Tufts, was an English major. I was not a young Republican. My boyfriend was in a rock band, and I worked paying myself through, putting myself through college in a In a live music club, so I spent most of my nights in one way or another at clubs.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Both my parents are from West Virginia and I spend a lot of my summers there. And so a lot of my formative thoughts came from the time I spent in West Virginia. And my grandfather there was very active in politics at a local level. He was in Roan County, West Virginia, which was sort of a lone outlier Republican county. West Virginia was very...”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No. I was an English major at Tufts. My family, yes, my dad was a professor at Ohio State University and then left that when I was nine years old and we went to do that.”
2016-06-13 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 58 - Beth Myers · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source