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RICHMOND -- As one of Bill Clinton's closest friends, Terry McAuliffe was there to console the president on the Truman Balcony of the White House in 1994 when voters delivered a humiliating rejection of the Clinton presidency by turning over control of Congress to the GOP. McAuliffe was there to tell Bill and Hillary Clinton that they didn't need to worry about mounting legal expenses in 1998. "We'll take care of it," McAuliffe told the president one weekend at Camp David. And when Clinton couldn't get a loan to buy a house in New York state so Hillary could run...

PITTSBURGH - Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe urged voters to ignore alleged voting scams and turn out to the polls, promising victory for John Kerry a day before Election Day. Following President Bush from Ohio to Pennsylvania as the president made a six-state, 19-hour day of final campaigning, McAuliffe spoke at a Democratic district headquarters in a traditionally black neighborhood as phones rang in the background and volunteers solidified Election Day plans. McAuliffe trumpeted recent polls showing Kerry leading against Bush in the battleground states of Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania and assured voters of a Democratic victory. Despite claims...

Christopher Ruddy, writing in NewsMax.com on the day after the election, explained the negative effect that Bill Clinton and his crowd had on the election. Bill Clinton has disappeared from the TV screens this morning. He is nowhere to be seen. Why? Clinton, just days ago, was all over the place. Never had a former president acted as the antithesis to a sitting president by making a national campaign swing for Democrats. Never had a former president, and his wife, played such a controlling role in their party after they left the White House. During this election we discovered, without...