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...crises around the world have a way of tripping up grand presidential visions. For the Bush doctrine, that political pothole comes in the form of Middle East violence. "The broad sweeping pledges made by the President have bumped into reality," GOP Congressman Henry Hyde, who chairs the House International Relations Committee, tells me. "There are so many smoldering fires out there that may require substantial attention at any time," such as Iraq, Kashmir and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. "All of these, plus some we haven't even thought of, hold some enormous danger and could command our military resources...
...against a guy he figured would be easier to beat, businessman Bill Simon. But Davis wasn't the reason Riordan went from a 60-point lead in the polls to an 18-point loss Tuesday. And Simon, a guy with no political experience who shocked everyone by wining the GOP nomination, wasn't the reason either. Riordan has only himself to blame, for a lackluster campaign that he was never prepared...
...Meanwhile, his staff kept turning over, disillusioned by the candidate's lack of focus and refusal to stay on message. Riordan never built ties to Republican consultants when he was mayor of a big Democratic city, and the GOP folks he hired for this race kept quitting on him. Communication was a problem. His staff didn't even know about a 1991 TV interview in which the supposedly pro-choice Riordan condemned abortion as murder until newspapers reported it. Davis, who saw in Riordan a moderate Republican who was his most dangerous potential opponent in the general election, jumped...
...Reports from the White House say it came down to Paul O'Neill the free-market economist against Karl Rove the GOP vote-counter. Pork politics - just those few rust-belt votes can lock down the House in 2002 and the White House in 2004 - won. And man-of-integrity Bush, who by keeping one campaign promise to West Virginia sold out not only his free-market principles but also most of his own party, is now sporting a sizeable black...
...Voting Rights Act must okay new lines because of Mississippi's past history of racial discrimination. Democrats charge that Justice then sat on the plan to give a panel of three Republican-appointed federal judges time to draw up its own redistricting proposal for the state which favors GOP candidates. "They're playing partisan politics with this," gripes Shows. The Justice Department denies...