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Democrats last week called for a federal probe of the incident. Sources close to Democratic Miami-Dade Mayor Alex Penelas tell TIME that a G.O.P. intermediary, Miami political consultant Herman Echevarria--at the behest of state Republican leaders--tried to approach Penelas Wednesday morning to see if the mayor "might talk" to the canvassing board. The sources say Penelas preferred to stay out of it. (Dade elections supervisor David Leahy, a board member, also works for Penelas.) Both Echevarria and Florida G.O.P. chairman Al Cardenas deny such contact. But Penelas, a Cuban American, is seen as vulnerable by G.O.P. leaders...
...helps explain why Baker was the obvious choice on the morning of Nov. 8, when George W. woke up and realized that all those top-secret three-ring binders marked TRANSITION--WEEK ONE were going to be useless for a while. It was Dick Cheney who came up with the idea of calling Baker out of retirement. He has known Baker since the Ford Administration (when Cheney was White House chief of staff), and Baker spent election night in Cheney's Austin, Texas, hotel suite. It has not been lost on Bush loyalists, attuned to signs of who's really...
...only after last week's emergency that Cheney's doctors finally made public a crucial measure of his coronary performance, the "ejection fraction," which indicates the heart's pumping power. A healthy heart registers within the 50% to 70% range. Cheney's is a serviceable 40%. His cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, called that a sign of moderate impairment. Cheney's doctors also announced that for 30 days Cheney will take a blood thinner, Plavix, to prevent blood clots from forming around the stent before it can be covered by the growth of new tissue...
...left the hospital Friday, Cheney told reporters he would return this week to "a fairly normal schedule." He was going home with an upbeat prognosis from his doctors, so there's little reason to suppose that poor health would cause him to step aside before Dec. 18, when the Electoral College will formally choose the President and Vice President. If that were to happen, however, and if Bush turns out to be the winner of the presidential race, he could simply name Cheney's replacement, a choice that would have to be approved in a vote by the 165-member...
...Cheney was leaving the hospital last week, reporters inquired if he had plans to ask Bush to replace him as his running mate. He laughed and said, "No, not yet." He and his doctors insist that the stress of his latest campaign, to say nothing of the chaos that followed Election Day, did not have much to do with his problems last week. Nothing he went through as a candidate for Vice President, Cheney said, compared to the stress he faced as Defense Secretary during the Persian Gulf...