I told the news desk in Manchester to expect a probable candidate for page one.
After Mr. Chirac's announcement, the spotlight will now turn to Mr. Jospin, who has so far only said he is a probable candidate.
Phil Angelides, the Democratic state treasurer and a probable candidate for governor in 2006, said Mr. Schwarzenegger's budget would dig the state deeper into a fiscal hole.
A former chief of staff to Mr. Karzai, Mr. Daudzai had said on Aug. 17 that he would be a "probable candidate".
"When it comes to this election, Democrats are going to pay a price," said Tim Pawlenty, the Republican governor of Minnesota and a probable candidate for president.
At one point, believe it or not, I used to hear people suggesting Sainsbury's as the probable candidate, yet Morrisons has looked much more likely recently.
Ms Díaz, who is close to Carme Chacón, a former defence minister and probable candidate, will use her new-found muscle to try to sway the result.
The president's volte-face may have done more damage to Roberto Madrazo, the probable candidate of the formerly ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party.
But if he and Johnson are committed to selecting a new coach from within the organization, Maurice Carthon, the assistant head coach and running backs coach, would be the probable candidate.
Mr. Giuliani, then a probable candidate for mayor, was a speaker at the union demonstration, organized to denounce what many officers viewed as Mayor Dinkins's poor treatment of the police.
"The inflammatory rhetoric does nothing to address a very real problem in New York City," said John Melia, the press secretary to Fernando Ferrer, the Bronx borough president and probable candidate for mayor next year.
