And, you know, people around the table-karl [Rove], Karen [Hughes] -all these people were like, Oh, well, do we have to?

还有很多人坐在桌旁，你知道，有KARL, KAREN，这些人都在想，我们有必要这么做吗？

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And so with Vice President Cheney, Karl Rove and others around the president, the chief of staff has to be kind of again a manager more than the person in the room shouting the loudest.

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Rove confidently predicted that Romney would win the popular vote by as much as 2.5% and get around 280 electoral votes.

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