"Voters have crossed the Rubicon to vote Labor," said Jack Cunningham, the party's campaign chief.

"He will now have a chance to prove himself out as a programmatic reformer," said Don Rose, the Mayor's campaign chief.

Mr. Bush's campaign chiefs make no apologies for the practice.

Clark Ray, Tipper Gore's campaign chief of staff, said he now knew people who had only been voices on the phone before.

Lockwood glanced at Galdone, but as usual the lugubrious campaign chief was reserving counsel.

He has previously worked as the campaign chief of the European Green Party.

The Liberal Democrats' leader and their campaign chief, Des Wilson, got into the lift high in the hotel.

He was the campaign chief of his party during the general elections in 1994 and 1998.

Former presidential candidate Howard Dean's campaign chief, Joe Trippi, was often the subject of press inquiries and stories.

The vice president's campaign chief is hardly exempt from equal scrutiny simply because she happens to be a relative.