Washington really is focus-grouping political parties into irrelevance. ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)
By yes — a “Star Chamber” of focus-grouping wingnut power-brokers bent on an insipid “Pinky and the Brain” scheme to re-jigger (Sweet God — you can't avoid inadvertent racial wordplay in dealing with this ...) the racial electoral dynamic in pushing their own “Idiot Camp” of would be candidates. ❋ Unknown (2008)
One of the things that was trademark Rove, trademark republican was focus-grouping everything. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Among other things, he made brilliant use of focus-grouping, reworking his presentation over and over again again until he knew he had answered every question and addressed every concern a juror might have. ❋ Unknown (2009)
They're probably focus-grouping the Version 3.0 answer as we speak, assuming the campaign can scrape together the cash to put a focus group together. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The recent evidence includes that e-mail asking for information on Obama's days as a community organizer, focus-grouping anti-Obama ads in NH, repeatedly suggesting people do not know everything Obama, and so on. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Expect the administration to be focus-grouping and trial-ballooning various euphamisms for chapter 11 to disguise this problem. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I gave a talk to a high school in Toledo on Friday, which gave me a chance to do some ad hoc focus-grouping of how teenagers engage with media. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The Obama campaign is focus-grouping these ads to death, and people just have to stop assuming they know what "works" just because they want to see the Obama campaign hit them like they personally would if they could just scream at them for an hour in a locked room. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I'm normally not much of a fan of focus groups, but the McCain campaign really should consider focus-grouping the Phil Gramm references. ❋ Unknown (2009)
After months of focus-grouping, number-crunching and brave talk, the GOP will disclose its plan to slice $270 billion from the growth of Medicare spending between now and the year 2002. ❋ Unknown (2008)
You know, they probably did a lot of focus-grouping on this before they chose her. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some signature collection firms are known to scrounge up business by inventing a proposal themselves, test-marketing it, focus-grouping it, and then, if it looks as if it will fly, pushing it to possible proponents. ❋ Amy Wilentz (2006)
I imagine it took more fierce focus-grouping to decide whether or not to have the exclamation point. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I imagine that, after some fierce focus-grouping, “We can do better” narrowly beat out “We could hardly do worse.” ❋ Unknown (2006)
Hopefully at this point the Democrats will start listening to Feingold and Dean and others with consciences and actually take a moral position without first focus-grouping it, and at the insistence of the vox populi take action that cleanses the corruption out of government root and branch. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Let's start with the premise: Albie is a brilliant, politically minded writer; he was fired as a Studio 60 writer by the network four years ago; now the network, in a bind, has come crawling back to him to save their bacon; which he does, by single-handedly writing the show at a punishing pace; but not without interference from focus-grouping, craven suits who are proven wrong by his genius writing and ratings triumph. ❋ Unknown (2006)
