Talk:Patrick Caddell

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i'm watching this guy on c-span right now and if he thinks he speaks to young alienated voters, he's crazy - his "strategy" for the republicans is to compare same-sex marriage with polygamy - perhaps a more suitable or more current quote about him would be appropriate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.195.184.215 (talk) 08:17, 24 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tone

I'm amazed at the tone of this article. It could use attention to the refs which some appear to be pure opinion pieces and biased. --THE FOUNDERS INTENT ^PRAISE 21:56, 29 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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The article "Pat Caddell" purports to be a biography, but doesn't begin to give a representation of his work. This is typical:

Despite the fact that no Democratic campaign has officially recruited Pat Caddell in years, he continues to claim to be a Democratic pollster, with Fox News touting him regularly. His appearances generally involve him attacking Democratic politicians and predicting the downfall of the Democratic party.

Apart from being incomplete and argumentative, its assertions are completely unsourced. Whether his appearances "generally involve him attacking Democratic politicians" is not a question of fact, but opinion, and in this case a hopelessly biased opinion.

It could accurately be stated that Caddell warned the Democrats in late 2004 not to go after George Bush's National Guard service and famously predicted that if the CBS 60 Minutes' story turned out to be based upon a forged document, that the election "would be over," and George Bush would win. Caddell's explanation of that prediction was that the Democratic Party leadership had become involved in promoting the story. While it is not difficult to see some criticism of Democratic Party leaders in there, Caddell's position can also be seen as an attempt to help his party by warning them away from a self-defeating tactic.

Last edited at 21:24, 19 October 2006 (UTC). Substituted at 02:22, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

Edits of this date

Came to article, and found 2012 refimprove tag to no longer be helpful. Principle needs of article now are

(i) standardization of source formats, to eliminate URL-only formats, at same time checking them to be live;
(ii) verification of content to sources, as it appears content was placed first, then citations added post hoc (and in a sloppy fashion); and
(iii) making the lead representative of the article.

Because of needs (ii) and (iiii), I added the expert attention needed tag. Otherwise, today, I provided the apparent source of the long block quote, and added the Carter presidency as the main career period for which he is known, to the lede, Good luck to Carter era history editors. Cheers. Le Prof. 73.211.138.148 (talk) 07:06, 30 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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Sources

Every line is sourced, I don't understand the issue label regarding the sources. Can someone explain? Maybe it is just dated and needs to be removed.--FrankTursetta (talk) 17:51, 22 August 2017 (UTC)[reply]