According to the latest from Dan Froomkin, at washingtonpost.com:
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2005/10/26/BL2005102601379.html]
there is a last minute flurry of activity centered around Karl Rove.
more below
The article further sites an Atlantic Monthly article by Joshua Green detailing that the toughest fight by Rove comes when he is cornered.
[http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200411/green]
"Anyone who takes an honest look at his history will come away awed by Rove's power, when challenged, to draw on an animal ferocity that far exceeds the chest-thumping bravado common to professional political operatives."
One of my favorite quotes from the Green article:
"A surprising number of Rove's former colleagues believe that his unprecedented success in Texas, where for years his candidates rarely faced serious challenges, has fostered what in the boxing world would be known as a "tomato-can" syndrome. Like a heavyweight champion who lets down his guard after beating up a series of hapless "tomato-can" opponents, Rove, they fear, may have been blinded to current national realities by hubris. "I think Karl's success in Texas is almost a hindrance," a veteran strategist who worked with him in that state told me. "The rest of the country doesn't emulate Texas in terms of voting behavior. But sometimes you see his southern roots in Texas and his experience in Alabama kind of overtake him, and he seems to think the United States is one big-ass Texas."
Looks like Rove is pulling out all the stops to keep from being indicted.
Let us hope his fight is in vain.