Elections may leave Bush an early lame duck

On desks around the West Wing sit dig­i­tal clocks count­ing down the days and hours left in the Bush pres­i­den­cy, reminders to the White House staff to use the time left as effec­tive­ly as pos­si­ble. As of 8 a.m. today, those clocks will read 825 days, four hours. But if the elec­tions go the way poll­sters and pun­dits pre­dict, they might as well read 20.