Interviews with advisers to both campaigns, along with party officials and strategists across all contested states, suggest that both candidates have opportunities and vulnerabilities.
In our interviews with advisers, two people shared stories about seekers who had come to them for affirmation, already intent on a course of action.
Mr. Bloomberg convened a meeting in the governor's room of City Hall, with its imposing portrait of Andrew Jackson, and after studying the numbers and the models, let it be known where he stood: a mandatory evacuation of 370,000 New Yorkers was necessary, according to interviews with advisers.
The strategy, described in interviews with advisers and donors to Mr. Walker, is an acknowledgment that despite leading in some early polls and earning praise from party kingmakers, Mr. Walker faces serious obstacles — money, readiness, stature — to becoming his party's standard-bearer.
Some of the information from new claimants will be entered online, if they are able to access the internet, before a face-to-face interview with an adviser.
In an interview with Bloomberg, EU Climate Adviser Jurgen Lefevere described China, Saudi Arabia and Brazil as the main blockers.
A top White House official is accusing CNN host Jake Tapper of being sexist during a heated interview with presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway.
In my interviews with Obama advisers during that time, they emphasized that they knew the history and were determined to avoid repeating it.
The research incorporated interviews with expert advisers and ruling elites (including one ruling monarch) as well as palace-based observations of them interacting with one another.
So here, culled from the mayor's comments over recent weeks and interviews with City Hall advisers and detractors, are five of Mr. Giuliani's biggest priorities for 2001.
