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...people," he said after he voted, "and I feel very comfortable with that." He was host of a gin-rummy tournament on Air Force One as he headed from Crawford back to the White House to wait out the results. It was on the plane that strategist Karl Rove started calling around to get the results of early exit polls. But the line kept breaking down. The only information that came through as the plane descended was a BlackBerry message from an aide that simply read: "Not good." Not long afterward, Rove got a more detailed picture and told...
...family dining room of the residence, Rove set up his computers. Bush called him regularly to ask about what was happening in certain precincts and districts. Finally, after midnight, the President was on the phone with his communications director, Dan Bartlett, discussing Ohio. Bartlett explained why the networks would be reluctant to call the key swing state. Bush then said, "Well, they just called it," although only NBC and Fox had. The room erupted into cheers. Bartlett held out the phone so Bush could hear. "Congratulations, Mr. President," Bartlett said, "You won the presidency." But it would be nearly...
...initial, simplistic analysis was that Kerry lost because voters in 11 states, including Ohio, rushed to the polls to oppose gay marriage. But according to Pew, "moral values" was about more than social issues. Straight talk was seen as a moral value, and as Karl Rove has said, Kerry's infamous "I voted for the $87 billion before I voted against it" was the most damaging 11 seconds of the campaign year. Nearly 1 in 4 of Pew's "moral values" voters cited the "personal qualities" of the candidates. And 17% cited "traditional values" like "the way people live their...
...right by America, and to create a winnable agenda, both the Ted Kennedy and the Al From wings of the party have to be willing to try new ideas. A civil war inside the Democratic Party over leftist vs. centrist ideology would be exactly what Karl Rove wants. This is the time for a big tent—big enough for an army of Democrats who are unified, clear about their ideals, and ready to defend American values from the fiendish schemes of Rove and Bush...
...James Carville. I wouldn’t want to be Rove because James Carville would fight to his death...