Bush thinks Hillary will win, admires her campaign

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At an off-the-record lunch a week ago, Bush expressed admiration for her tenacity in the campaign. And he left some in the room with the impression that he thinks she will win the election and has been thinking about how to turn over the country to her.

The topic came up when Bush invited a group of morning and evening news anchors and Sunday show hosts to join him in the executive mansion's family dining room a few hours before he delivered his nationally televised address on Iraq last week. Bush made no explicit election predictions, according to some in the room, but clearly thought Clinton would win the Democratic nomination and talked in a way that seemed to suggest he expects her to succeed him...

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On the Republican side, according to people in the room, Bush expressed surprise that former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani has managed to remain the frontrunner despite his liberal positions on social and cultural issues normally critical to the party base. That's a sign of how important the terrorism issue is to Republican voters, Bush said.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2..._democrati.html

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I saw Hillary this morning on Face The Nation and was very impressed with her responses...except over Mr. Hsu - she seemed to dismiss it as something that happened to at least 6 other presidential candidates and then added that we need public campaign finance to avoid these kinds of things.