... in a rather quiet way." Said Karen Ignagni, president of America's Health Insurance Plans and the industry's top strategist in Washington: "We understand we need to come to the table with very specific solutions." Ignagni is hedging her ...

... her one approach she doesn't seem to be changing. "This has been very much a referendum on her," Clinton's top strategist, Mark Penn, told reporters on the flight out of Iowa. "And people will take a harder look at the choice and the ...

... here. We're going to close out the nominating fight and then we'll consider that," David Axelrod, Obama's top strategist, told reporters aboard the candidate's plane en route to Minnesota. McCain's criticism of Obama referred to ...

... to destroy the first female running mate in party history. While she readied the speech of her career, McCain's top strategist, Steve Schmidt, complained about a "faux media scandal," generated, he said, by "the old boys' network that ...

... she said. "George is a great guy, but we must really start to work voters as well as the insiders." Bush's top strategist, Karl Rove, and other aides called antsy supporters across the country Wednesday to argue that McCain owed Democrats ...

... offense" by not more clearly "disassociating myself from anti-Catholic sentiments and racial prejudice." Bush's top strategist, Karl Rove, today accused McCain of using the Bob Jones controversy to portray Bush as a bigot and divide voters ...