WASHINGTON - On a blustery night in the New Mexico desert, President Bush was giving the next-to-last stump speech of a grueling campaign. The next morning, voters would decide his fate. As he spoke, a man with nearly as much at stake was standing off to the side: Karl Rove. ... Bundled up in a "W '04 Road Crew" jacket, Rove was regaling a flock of reporters. As his boss cracked a joke on stage, the balding, bespectacled adviser was performing his walking political calculator routine. He spewed numbers - how many volunteers are in Florida, how much money was...