A political aide slipped inside and whispered to the mayor's man.

He lost it by 366 votes in 2000, and his political aides do not intend to repeat that experience.

The Governor says he can't understand why his political aides didn't just release the names in the first place.

One of his senior political aides said, "we've got our momentum back."

He had been convicted on the testimony of one man, a political aide whose family received $500,000 from prosecutors.

"This is what people want to hear about these days," one of his senior political aides said the other day.

She asked her political aides to assemble in New York today to plan the campaign.

Karl Rove, the president's chief political aide, is in charge of the effort.

"It's so easy for them," responded a political aide of long standing.

Despite his low profile, he was one of Blair's closest political aides.