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...victory President Bush visited three times and told voters Chambliss would be his ally...
...were prepared when Congressman Saxby Chambliss agreed to Rove's call to challenge Georgia incumbent Max Cleland, a war veteran and conservative Democrat who had voted with the President on his $1.3 trillion tax cut. Chambliss had demands beyond the buckets of money Rove promised: "I also need the President to come to Georgia twice," Chambliss said. Rove looked at him, perplexed. "Can he only come to the state two times?" "No, Karl, I mean twice a month," Chambliss said. It was an outsize request, but Bush almost lived up to it. He visited Georgia six times--including two stops...
...final days of the campaign, Rove was not only penciling in new stops on the Bush itinerary but was also tearing up the Vice President's schedule, sometimes hours before an event, to reroute him to a more politically potent place. When Chambliss started getting traction with the homeland-security issue, Cheney was there to hit that theme hard. When John Sununu needed help in Nashua, N.H., and wanted Bush to touch down there, Rove BlackBerried the campaign strategist: "Can't do, will get back to you." Two days later, he had the First Lady there instead. The narrowcasting...
...Saxby Chambliss...
While the overall victory margin was small, the Administration prevailed in most of its high-priority races. In Georgia, Saxby Chambliss coasted to an upset win over incumbent Max Cleland, while Norm Coleman came back to defeat Walter Mondale in Minnesota. As soon as the final returns came in, Lott accelerated his plans for assuming control. Early last week he began courting Dean Barkley, the Independent appointed to serve out the last two months of the late Democrat Paul Wellstone's term. If Lott can lure Barkley to vote with the Republicans, he would effectively wrest control of the lame...