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...group believes that Dean is the last person the party needs. Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack was calling labor leaders and others last week, asking them to hold off backing Dean for a few more days as Vilsack decides whether to make a bid. Among others being mentioned: Bill Clinton strategist Harold Ickes and former New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen. The outcome is hard to predict, as it involves muscling votes among notoriously slippery party insiders. --By Karen Tumulty
...Reality is here, and I think we've got to give the President and his team a lot of credit ... They've won it." JAMES CARVILLE, Democratic strategist on election night...
...only black Senator, Obama will face expectations that will be hard to fulfill--especially if he wants to be a national candidate someday. "My greatest fear for Barack is that he'll be in the background, another black face in the sea of whiteness," says Donna Brazile, a veteran strategist who ran Al Gore's campaign in 2000. For now, she says, "he doesn't have to become the next black leader. He has to become a great Senator from the state of Illinois...
...hands of the people," he said after he voted, "and I feel very comfortable with that." He was host of a gin-rummy tournament on Air Force One as he headed from Crawford back to the White House to wait out the results. It was on the plane that strategist Karl Rove started calling around to get the results of early exit polls. But the line kept breaking down. The only information that came through as the plane descended was a BlackBerry message from an aide that simply read: "Not good." Not long afterward, Rove got a more detailed picture...
...mistakes. He not only looked cranky but he sounded it, shearing off his answers, forgetting the more expansive and compelling explanations he routinely gave on the stump. As the squalls continued, Hughes stood huddled in the corner with communications director Bartlett to discuss the setback in the making. Chief strategist Matthew Dowd held both hands to his mouth as if in prayer. "We were watching our lead disappear," says a Bush official...