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...Iraq, Bush's friends say the President gives no hint in private conversations that he is discouraged. If he did waver, there would be political hell to pay. "We're getting close to having a thousand soldiers dead in Iraq," says a Republican Senator. "A lot of people are upset, and the polls have changed. So if the President in any way opens that door a little bit and says, 'Maybe we didn't think this thing through well enough,' that could be disastrous politically...
...thinking maybe $500 billion. Bush's congressional liaison, Nick Calio, suggested to the President that he cut the price tag to buy some votes. But Bush's answer was always the same: "It's not time yet. We're going to say $1.6 trillion. People are going to get upset about it, but we're going to say it over and over. Are we going to compromise? When I say the time is right. Until then we're going to say 1.6." One day, walking out of the Oval Office, he said, "Nicky, don't wobble." In May, Bush...
...that can spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections]. I share the same consternation. When I signed that [campaign-finance-reform] bill, I thought we got rid of this kind of stuff--unregulated soft money, billionaires pouring money into a campaign. I can understand why Senator Kerry is upset with us. I wasn't so pleased with the ads that were run about me. And my call is get rid of them...
Michael Moore’s cameo appearance at the Garden Monday night upset more than the usual suspects...
Markets aren't infallible, of course: Australian punters failed to predict the upset wins of Paul Keating in 1993 and Steve Bracks in 1999. And I.E.M. traders wrongly predicted in 2000 that Bush would win the popular vote as well as the presidency. In early July, Centrebet manager Gerard Daffy had several calls from people wanting to bet on the date of the election. He didn't open a book "for obvious reasons," he says. If he had, punters would have had another miss: "The date they were looking for was Sept...