Word: advisors
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...governor had to win, John McCain is the only Republican candidate to have racked up victories in two major primary contests - and the winner in a state that has endorsed the eventual nominee in every election cycle since 1980. "A South Carolina victory is an enormous victory," says senior advisor Steve Schmidt...
...miles through remote Ukrainian villages, his priest's collar helping to put locals at ease in places where foreigners are rarely seen. Desbois taught mathematics in West Africa before becoming a priest, and later worked in Algeria; he also studied Hebrew in Jerusalem, and he serves as an advisor to the Vatican on Jewish affairs. But none of that prepared him for his charged work in Ukraine's villages, where the bottled-up emotions of aging Ukrainians pour out as they describe the executions they saw, and share details that some of them have kept even from their spouses...
...hand, Saudi Arabia and Iran are not liberalizing, while Bahrain is. The outlier is Dubai. It is diversifying economically as its oil runs out, but has taken almost no steps to democratize. When Bush brought up the "Freedom Agenda" in private talks with Sheikh Mohammad, says National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley...
...Hampshire primary. This cycle more than 20 states will hold primaries on February 5, picking 2,075 convention delegates - or 51% of those needed to win the nomination. "Once this thing gets down to two the press always spend more time on the alternative," said Joe Trippi, a senior advisor to Edwards. "Look at Jerry Brown and Bill Clinton. Once it got down to two, Jerry Brown started kicking Bill Clinton...
Well you're also bringing in what has been described to me as fresh thinking in the form of some additions to your team: Maggie [Williams, a Clinton confidante] and Doug [Sosnick, a policy advisor in Bill Clinton's White House]. What are you trying to accomplish here as you are sort of rejiggering your team? Well, I really am facing the reality that despite the fact that it's been very costly to run this national campaign for a year, we didn't have enough people and we didn't have enough, you know, the breadth and depth...