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...already been in the state, as has Obama. And that's just his challenge in Iowa. As the Washington Post reported this week, Vilsack isn't even guaranteed the support from people who have been close advisers in his earlier runs for office. One former top adviser, Chicago-based strategist David Axelrod, is likely to join Obama's team if he runs...
...biggest property companies, warning in a separate report that pollution could dampen demand for real estate and blunt the city's economic edge. "If we get to the point where it's so noxious you can't live here, people will start walking out the door," says Merrill Lynch strategist Spencer White...
...Democrats with an eye on the White House in 2008 relished the good news. "The important thing is what that does for us in '08," said top Hillary Clinton strategist and fundraiser, Terry McAuliffe. The victory in Ohio, the state that provided President Bush with his margin of victory in 2004, was especially gratifying, said McAuliffe: "We can't win the presidency without Ohio...
...Research Center and Gallup, all have shown a Democratic advantage on the so-called generic ballot - asking voters whether they will pick the Democratic or Republican congressional candidate in their district - narrowing. Democratic leads in key Senate races in Rhode Island and Montana have disappeared, leaving party strategists less optimistic about their chances of winning the Senate. Aside from expected seat pickups in Ohio and Pennsylvania, "everything else is questionable," said one party strategist working on Senate races, with races in Missouri, Montana, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Virginia still fiercely contested. Democrats would need to win four of those five...
...White House doesn't have a problem with confidence. On the Tarmac next to Air Force One in Texas Monday morning, chief Bush strategist Karl Rove made a "V" sign for the cameras. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow, saying the new polls vindicate the President's consistent optimism, joked: "'Victory' is on the record." Democrats are hoping the bravado will be fleeting...