Bush and hand counts

[Brad DeLong]

>Confirming our earlier hypothesis, a long front page article in Monday's
>Wall Street Journal on Bush's strategy says:
>
><quote>
>
>The Bush team's new offensive, like all its strategy, springs from an
>early postelection assessment by campaign analysts that Mr. Bush probably
>wouldn't win a state-wide recount by hand.  So when Mr. Gore, just after
>the election, sought hand recounts in four friendly counties, Mr. Bush
>didn't counter by seeking recounts in GOP-leaning counties of his
>own.  And when the vice president dramatically proposed a statewide hand
>count on national television last week, Mr. Bush rebuffed him.
>
>That's caused some second-guessing among fretful Republicans not only in
>Florida but nationwide.  Amid the recounting debate, for example, Tom
>Slade, Florida's GOP national committeeman, contacted Al Cardenas, his
>successor as state party chairman.  Without GOP counties also
>participating in the hand counts, Mr. Slade complained, "we're in this
>competition, and we don't have any players on the field."  Mr. Cardenas
>was unmoved, Mr. Slade recalls, replying that the Bush aim was to hold the
>line against hand counts, period.
>
></quote>

So what are Jackie Calmes's sources for the first sentence?

Brad DeLong