Underdog Gillespie says he sees path to victory

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — In the final stretch of Elizabeth Dole’s successful 2002 Senate race in North Carolina, Ed Gillespie would get up every night at 2 a.m. to check on his candidate’s polling numbers. If the numbers were good, Gillespie, who was helping Dole’s campaign, would go back to sleep. If they were bad, he’d toss and turn all night.

At one point, Gillespie wrote in his 2006 book “Winning Right,” Dole kicked him off the campaign bus after a tightly wound Gillespie slammed a broken cellphone down on a tabletop.