...remarkably unpredictable, start-and-stop battle for the Republican presidential nomination--a race in which McCain media adviser Mike Murphy says, ''The pundits have been wrong at every turn.'' McCain is sticking to his belief that, after...

...on to portray the vice president as a throwback big-government liberal. "You say you're your own man," Bush media adviser Mark McKinnon said. "We said, 'All right ... you're not a new Democrat; you're not Clinton."' Worst miscalculations...

...immediately began deploying the unholy trinity of contemporary American politics--lawyers, campaign consultants and media advisers--and set out to win it for themselves. Meantime, the fourth horseman, the fund-raisers, sprang into action...

...same old trap that's ensnared politicians of both parties. Cheney, acting against the advice of the White House media advisers, stalled the initial release of the news until the next day and then waited four days before making any public statements...

...loyal is that the values he has been communicating are part of the Republican Party," said Mark McKinnon, Bush's media adviser. "That's a tremendous asset." When McCain first began to emerge as Bush's most serious challenger late last...

...and the guests were directed back upstairs. "I was surprised to see the shelter was not sealed," Tamara Rifai, a media adviser with the International Committee of the Red Cross, said in the lobby as it filled once again. "The number one priority...