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Though he had anticipated a bump from his strong showing in the Iowa caucuses, publisher Steve Forbes received only 14 percent of the vote to finish third. Alan L. Keyes '72 finished fourth, with 6 percent of the vote. Gary Bauer, the former Reagan policy aide, barely topped one percent to place fifth...
...virtually every state; McCain doesn't. What's more, in most states, registered independents - who overwhelmingly favored McCain over Bush in New Hampshire - aren't allowed to vote in party primaries. At the same time, Bush is much more popular than McCain among conservatives, and as the fringe candidates (Bauer and Keyes) abandon the campaign trail, Bush will likely absorb their voting blocs. But McCain certainly gets to savor the moment...
Maybe what has got lost is the distinction between negative and misleading ads. There's nothing wrong with a negative ad if it's an honest accounting of an opponent's record or position. If you're Gary Bauer and you believe abortion is murder, then, hey, run an ad saying so and why your opponent is soft on abortion. And how helpful is a positive ad anyway? Morning in America? Reagan's 1984 ad was all gauzy images of smiling schoolkids and happy neighborhoods. Yuck...
...Gary Bauer offers select donors a chance to peek at the McCaugheys' septuplets...
Over the next few days--in Sioux City, Mason City, Dubuque, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, Muscatine and Washington--no fewer than 120 people attended each event to hear Forbes' anti-Washington, pro-life gospel. In 1996 Forbes was a one-trick pony with the flat tax. Now he, Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes lead with morality. The Forbes people pray that one of those two doesn't become this year's Buchanan, whose 1996 campaign had Bible thumpers jumping out of their pews in the Hawkeye State, where a popular billboard reads GOD IS PRO-LIFE...