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What finally swayed those near mythical voters who managed to make it until Tuesday without making up their minds? The weight that voters attached to values suggests that Rove's single-minded attention to the goal of turning out 4 million more evangelical voters than in 2000 may have paid off. On the other hand, there were voters like Jeffrey Wilson, 21, a student at the University of South Florida in Tampa, a gay Catholic raised in a conservative family but registered as a Democrat, who finally went with Bush. It wasn't the war that mattered. "I think they...
Whoever wants the job, this much is certain: much lies in the hands of George W. Bush. His adviser Karl Rove "will still run the party," says a Republican insider. "Everything from speaking events at state parties to Air Force One rides will go through him." A Bush endorsement could short-circuit the nominating process, just as Bill Clinton's support of Al Gore gave Gore a decided edge in 2000. Or the President could stay steadfastly neutral, as Reagan did in 1988, when his Vice President, George Herbert Walker Bush, faced five challengers and almost lost the nomination...
...fact, no oneexcept, perhaps, Karl Rove and Dick Cheneyreally knows what sort of President Bush will show up on Jan. 20 to begin his second term. There are two schools of wishful thinking. One is the "legacy" school, composed mostly of Washington-establishment Republicans of both moderate and conservative hue. "Second terms are about legacy," said a G.O.P. establishmentarian. "I think you'll see a midcourse correction and admission of errors on Iraq now that the Democrats can't make a negative ad about it. I think you'll see him make a real move on expanding health care...
PARTY POOPER Insult dog Triumph took a bite out of Karl Rove and more...
That was the last thing the Bush team had expected. Instead of employing his legendary charm to put the White House out of Kerry's reach, the opposite occurred. Bush was alienating a huge proportion of the audience with his manner. Spinning reporters afterward, Rove insisted that the President had been "thoughtful" and "pensive"--the epitome of revisionism. Hughes went about her work too, feeding a wreath of microphones and tape recorders with argument after argument that Bush had done well. Later Hughes spoke to the President via cell phone about the early story line. "I was not irritated...