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...unfair to blame the California debacle solely on Rove. Riordan, the millionaire ex-mayor whose moderate leanings led some party stalwarts to brand him a RINO (Republican in Name Only), ran a dismal race, blowing a 40-point lead. His untested opponent, millionaire businessman Bill Simon Jr., got an endorsement from 9/11 hero Rudy Giuliani and proved both surefooted and in tune with the conservative voters who dominate the primary. Then Davis did some meddling of his own, spending $10 million on attack ads against Riordan. But the White House failed to anticipate those factors, which explains why Presidents, like...
...Tiger Woods of G.O.P. politics: stand Rudy Giuliani next to anything, and some voters will buy. Impressed by the former New York City mayor's apparent kingmaking powers after his endorsement helped boost Bill Simon Jr. to a surprising victory in California's Republican primary for Governor, G.O.P. leaders quietly polled voters in key states last week to gauge Giuliani's broader influence. Republicans were already aware that Giuliani helped elect media mogul Michael Bloomberg to the Big Apple's top job last fall. But last week's G.O.P. polling revealed that Giuliani is as popular nationwide among Republicans...
...former President of Cyprus, who during his 11-year term stood uncompromisingly against the isle's separatist Turkish minority; in Nicosia. DIED. Irene Worth, 85, lauded actress of the British, American and Canadian stages, and screen, who won three Tony awards, the last for her role in Neil Simon's 1991 debut of Lost in Yonkers; in New York. (See Eulogy) DIED. James Tobin, 84, Yale professor emeritus, top adviser during the Kennedy Administration and recipient of the 1981 Nobel Prize in economics for his Portfolio Selection theory; in New Haven. INDICTED. The Arthur Andersen accounting firm...
...With reporting by Jamil Hamad and Simon Robinson/Jerusalem and Douglas Waller/Washington
...Riordan's biggest mistake was ignoring Bill Simon until it was too late. He thought his party would see him as the only hope of beating Davis and, thinking he already had the nomination sewn up, played up his moderate side, even scheduling a gay rights breakfast. Davis hit him from one side with ads calling him a flip-flopper. Simon hit him from the other, playing on the party faithful's doubts about what Riordan stood for. Voters listened to them both...