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...lost-cause nostalgia was almost palpable as the panelists played to the audience's Democratic leanings, while Bush chief strategist Karl Rove remained silent during the first few minutes of the panel...
...Although Rove's introduction and initial comments were greeted with hissing and boos from several audience members, he received hearty applause at several points, particularly when he spoke about the Republicans' need to expand beyond its traditional WASP constituency...
...modeled this campaign on McKinley's 1896 campaign," Rove said. "America was out of the 'vote as you fought' era, and the two parties were exhausted. He tried to reach out to new groups like Catholics and immigrants, and believed the Republican Party should not be just a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant party. He established a new Republican Party that would last until the '30s, and that's what we wanted...
...four Democrat and Republican managers, however, vociferously opposed the creation of a third party to compete with the existing two. Rove insisted that America was designed to work best with a two-party system that adapted to changing concerns...
...press is the biggest player in the political drama," Rove said. "You've got about 20 people in the country you've got to please--those on the campaign plane...