Word: karle
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...Karl Rove doesn't come across as a man on the verge of becoming the most renowned political consultant since James Carville. He looks like an owl (with fewer tufts) and has an obsession with history that seems quaint in the age of Jesse Ventura and Warren Beatty. The morning before last week's Iowa straw poll--which passes for a historic event at this infant stage of the presidential race--Rove's client George W. Bush spoke to supporters at a restaurant in Davenport while Rove lurked in the background, a cellular phone in one hand and a massive...
...presidential operation. And it is also true that Joe Allbaugh holds the title of campaign manager and that Karen Hughes, the communications director, is closer to Bush personally. But Rove is the intellectual and strategic heart of the campaign, the one adviser to Bush who, insiders say, is indispensable. "Karl plays politics like Bobby Fischer plays chess," says Mark McKinnon, Bush's top media adviser, a former Democrat. "He looks at the whole board and thinks 20 moves ahead...
...Richards in 1994 and then got the political world's attention by making sure that Bush's re-election margin in 1998 was an overwhelming one. The Governor got 68% (with more than 40% of the Hispanic vote), which made Bush an automatic contender for the 2000 nomination. "Karl knew that a dramatic victory was the best way to launch the presidential campaign," says another Bush aide. "So he ran up the score." There is now a Republican holding each of the 29 statewide elective offices in Texas, and nearly every one of them won with Rove's help...
Bush keeps his father's former aides on the periphery, and has left his campaign to Karl Rove, a brilliant personal friend who knows Bush a lot more than he knows about national campaigning...
...GORE has already spent 42% of his purse on a busload of consultants and events like a do at Manhattan's Pierre Hotel that cost $7,500. Said Bush strategist KARL ROVE: "We are the cost-conscious campaign...