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...Democrats mount an almost pitch-perfect middle-of-the-road convention in Boston and are wondering how they can match it. Although Noonan was not recruited by the White House ("She broke down the door," says a Bush supporter), top Bush aides telephoned her last week to welcome her aboard...
...rafts; the blue one steered by Pat and dubbed the QE2 for its superior buoyancy and comfort; the Red Devil under Dan's control, a little leakier, a little lower in the water and a lot more daring under the 19-year-old guide's cool hand. Aboard the QE2 your chances of getting through a low-grade rapid without having to kick off a rock or get out and pull are much higher; in the Red Devil, we whoop with excitement as we shoot backward over small rapids. We race each other along open stretches, and glide in silence...
...tour focused on domestic politics. Even as Bush went from rally to rally, claiming achievements in education, health care and the economy, his thoughts were on the scary information that was pouring into the White House situation room. "It's hair raising," the President privately told an adviser aboard his campaign bus as it rolled between stops in Ohio and Pennsylvania. "This stuff is really hair raising...
...back to his failed 1972 campaign for Congress. Many of them had felt shut out by the first manager of Kerry's presidential campaign, Jim Jordan, which was in no small measure why Jordan was fired in November. When Senator Edward Kennedy's then chief of staff Cahill came aboard, she moved quickly into the role of gatekeeper, cutting off Kerry's back-channel contacts and ensuring that almost all communication went through her. (Cahill and Kerry talk at least half a dozen times a day.) She brought in some of her own team, most notably communications director Stephanie Cutter...
...ticket, Kerry had scouted and hired some of his erstwhile staff members: former Edwards chief of staff Miles Lackey became Kerry's deputy campaign manager for policy and speechwriting, communications aide David Ginsburg went on to serve that function for Kerry, and press secretary Jennifer Palmieri came aboard as his spokeswoman in the crucial state of Ohio. Before that, Kerry had recruited Dick Gephardt's longtime aide and top strategist, Steve Elmendorf, as deputy campaign manager...