Maybe He's Not So Bad After All

By JANICE CASTRO/

DAVID DUKE fought Republican Party officials all the way to the Supreme Court last month, finally failing to win a place on their primary ballot in Georgia. But that was then, and this is now. This week Bush Central is secretly rooting for Duke, who is on the ballot in seven of the eight Super Tuesday primaries. Says an insider: "Every vote for Duke is a vote that Buchanan doesn't get.

With reporting by Wendy Cole