Word: roved
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...election night, Karl Rove sounded jovial, assuring Sean Hannity's radio audience that Republicans would defy the polls and hang on to both the House and Senate. Less than three hours later, President George W. Bush was watching returns on TV in his private study with the First Lady and a few friends and aides. He leaned over as a blue riptide swamped Republican after Republican. "Looks like a rout!" he said...
...architect--as Bush famously called Rove--of the 2000, 2002 and 2004 G.O.P. wins now downplays his forecast. "My job is not to be a prognosticator," he told TIME in an interview in his West Wing office. "I told the President, 'I don't know where this is going to end up. But I see our way clear to Republican control.' My job is not to go out there and wring my hands and say, 'We're going to lose...
...Rove chalks up the loss to corruption, incumbent overconfidence and conservative dissatisfaction with spending. He does not read the outcome as exclusively a judgment on either Iraq or Bush. "Iraq mattered," Rove says. "But it was more frustration than it was an explicit call for withdrawal." Which is not to say the White House didn't see trouble coming. To keep the Republican National Committee from having to take out a loan, according to Republican officials, Bush chipped in $12 million of his campaign funds that otherwise would have gone to his presidential library. Looking ahead, friends say Rove...
...Rove has not given up on his dream of a durable Republican majority, calling last week's loss a "transient, passing thing...
...done, the American people would understand the importance of taxes and the importance of security." Just 41% of Virginians in the exit poll said that the war in Iraq was extremely important, compared to 46% who said "values issues" were. These are the kind of numbers that Karl Rove was trying to conjure for every GOP candidate, and, by all conventional wisdom, they should have worked in Allen's favor-Virginia passed an anti-gay marriage amendment, after...