Patrick Hayward Caddell was an American public opinion pollster and a political film consultant who served in the Carter administration.
42 Facts About Patrick Caddell
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Patrick Caddell worked for Democratic presidential candidates George McGovern in 1972, Jimmy Carter in 1976 and 1980, Gary Hart in 1984, Walter Mondale in 1984, Joe Biden in 1988, and Jerry Brown in 1992.
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Patrick Caddell worked for Mario Cuomo, Bob Graham, Michael Dukakis, Paul Simon, Ted Kennedy, Harold Washington, Andrew Romanoff and Donald Trump.
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Patrick Hayward Caddell was born into an Irish Catholic family in Rock Hill, South Carolina, the son of Newton Pascal Caddell, a US Coast Guard officer, and Janie Burns Caddell.
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Patrick Caddell spent most of his childhood in various base towns, such as Falmouth, Massachusetts, and was inspired by the Kennedys.
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Consequently, Senator Ted Kennedy became concerned Patrick Caddell was being falsely accused for political reasons and sent two of his own investigators to Warren County, New York.
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Patrick Caddell persuaded Carter to focus in 1976 on the "trust factor", rather than divisive political issues in the 1976 campaign, a strategy which led, narrowly, to victory.
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Patrick Caddell escorted actress Lauren Bacall to Carter's inauguration ball.
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Patrick Caddell was the chief advocate of what later became known as Carter's "malaise speech".
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Patrick Caddell tried to persuade Joe Biden, Dale Bumpers, and then Chris Dodd to run, but none of them was interested.
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On New Year's Eve 1983, Patrick Caddell was hired by his longtime friend Senator Gary Hart, who had given Patrick Caddell his first job in national politics on the George McGovern campaign in 1972.
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Patrick Caddell was credited with Hart's stunning victory over Mondale in the 1984 New Hampshire primary.
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Patrick Caddell was accused of refusing to attend campaign meetings and only willing to deal with Hart directly.
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Patrick Caddell was tasked with polling, strategy, and debate prep.
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Patrick Caddell was credited with devising Mondale's debate strategy in the first 1984 United States presidential debates.
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In 1988, Patrick Caddell left Democratic consulting firm Patrick Caddell, Doak and Shrum after what The Washington Post described as an "acrimonious lawsuit".
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Shortly after Biden announced his presidential run in June 1987, Patrick Caddell accosted a Washington Post reporter at a hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, and consequently, Biden's aide Ted Kaufman asked him not to attend the first primary debate.
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Biden's staff urged him to withdraw from the race, but Patrick Caddell argued otherwise and instead urged Biden to attack the press.
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Patrick Caddell confronted the New York Times reporter who initially written the Kinnock story over the phone and falsely accused his former business partners Shrum and Doak of producing the "attack video" highlighting Biden's plagiarism.
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Patrick Caddell was not invited to the meeting, but he called every 15 minutes to argue otherwise through a pay phone.
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Patrick Caddell demanded Biden's brother, Jimmy, to allow him to speak to Biden directly and accused Jimmy of screening calls.
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Patrick Caddell was accused of having a role in the implosion of his former boss' Gary Hart's 1988 presidential campaign after a photo of Hart with model Donna Rice on the yacht Monkey Business surfaced in May 1987, leading to charges of infidelity and Hart's withdrawal from the race.
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In 1988, Patrick Caddell relocated to California to teach a course at University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Patrick Caddell served as a consultant on various scripted productions, most notably the feature films Apocalypse Now, Air Force One, Outbreak, and In the Line of Fire; the made-for-television movies Running Mates and Y2K; and the television series The West Wing.
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Patrick Caddell was a marketing consultant on Coca-Cola's ill-fated New Coke campaign in 1985.
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Patrick Caddell was shunned in Democratic circles due to Bill Clinton's victory in 1992, which precipitated his rightward lurch.
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Patrick Caddell was criticized by Media Matters for America and Salon columnist Steve Kornacki for predicting negative consequences for the Democratic Party.
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Patrick Caddell played an informal role in Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.
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In 2003, in a phone conversation with Dean's campaign manager Joe Trippi, Patrick Caddell came up with Dean's "you have the power" refrain.
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In January 2010, Trippi, Celinda Lake, and Patrick Caddell were named as consultants to Andrew Romanoff's Senate campaign.
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In November 2010, Patrick Caddell penned an op-ed in The Washington Post calling on Barack Obama not to seek re-election.
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Patrick Caddell was a regular guest on Fox News, and at the time of his death was listed as an official "Fox News Contributor".
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Patrick Caddell frequently appeared on the conservative Web site Ricochet.
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Patrick Caddell first met Donald Trump in the 1980s and, despite being a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 South Carolina primary, served as Trump's informal advisor throughout the 2016 election.
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In 2013, Patrick Caddell became a contractor for Republican mega-donor and Renaissance Technologies CEO Robert Mercer and continued to collect polling data for Mercer until Election Day of 2016.
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Patrick Caddell circulated his research and caught the attention of longtime Trump advisor Roger Stone, who forwarded a memo about it to Trump.
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Patrick Caddell became a frequent collaborator of Steve Bannon, then the executive chairman of Breitbart, which was primarily bankrolled by Mercer.
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At Bannon's invitation, Patrick Caddell began writing regular columns on Breitbart in 2012 and appeared regularly on Bannon's radio show in 2014.
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Patrick Caddell continued to advise Trump after Trump was elected president in the 2016 election.
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Patrick Caddell was credited with pioneering attacks on the media as "the enemy of the American people".
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In 2012, Patrick Caddell gave a speech at a conference sponsored by Accuracy in Media, a conservative watchdog organization, in which he called the media "the enemy of the American people".
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Patrick Caddell had moved to a house down the block from his daughter, Heidi Caddell Echelberger, and her three children, Olivia Emily Echelberger, 13, Patrick Travis Echelberger, 12, and Janie Kate Echelberger, 11, in Hanahan, South Carolina, in the last decade of his life.