Word: roved
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...Rove didn't seem like such a genius then - and even less so after Jim Jeffords quit the Republican Party in mid-2001, thereby swinging control of the Senate back to the Democrats. But then came 9/11, and in the fall of 2002, Rove helped engineer a stunning political triumph when, for only the second time in history, Republicans picked up seats in both the House and the Senate in the first mid-term of a presidency. Two years later, Bush won reelection - and this time, the popular vote - and still more gains for the G.O.P. in Congress, another historic...
...Rove is leaving Bush and the White House, effective August 31. "Bush's Brain", as Rove was sometimes called (usually by opponents who assumed Bush didn't have one of his own), is heading back to Texas. He was not, according to sources close to Rove and the President, forced out. Like Dan Bartlett, the White House counsel who resigned last month, Rove was one of the handful of people in Bush's inner circle who had carte blanche to decide when, and if, they would leave - although White House chief of staff Josh Bolten had asked everyone on senior...
...What often distinguished Rove from other strategists was his sweeping vision. He is encyclopedic in his knowledge of the smallest details of electoral politics - of precincts and turnout models, county activists and regional issues - but he always had a broader idea about where he, and Bush, were going, and where they would take the party. As long ago as 1998, his stated project with Bush was to remake the G.O.P. into a permanent governing majority of the kind the Democratic Party enjoyed from 1932 through 1968. He would do it by winning over Latino voters and breaking the Democrats' grip...
...plan was for nothing less than a broad realignment of American politics. But the plan failed terribly after Bush's reelection. Not only has Iraq gone disastrously, dragging down the President's popularity and making even staunch Republicans skittish, but some of the policies Rove was more directly responsible for - the vast expansion of Medicare, the mutation of the G.O.P. into a party of big government, the spectacular failure of Bush's effort to "reform" Social Security through partial privatization - have all weighed heavily on the G.O.P., turning it for the first time since Ronald Reagan took office...
...Rove will join the speaking circuit, write a book and probably teach some college classes in Texas. "He always loved to lecture," says a friend and colleague from the White House. Will he get back into the political fray, perhaps by advising the 2008 Republican nominee? "I'm inclined to doubt it," says a source close to Rove. "But with Karl you never know. He loves this stuff. It'll be hard for him to stay away. Politics is in his blood...