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...Reported by Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and Karen Tumulty/Washington
...Jeffrey H. Birnbaum. Reported by Ann Blackman/Washington
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA: "Phil Gramm's candidacy is on life support," reports Jeffrey Birnbaum of the big hit that Gramm's presidential hopes took on Tuesday, when he won only 8 of 21 delegates in the Louisiana state caucuses. The clear loss to Pat Buchanan stung, coming just six days before the crucial Iowa caucuses. Only a couple weeks before, Gramm had confidently predicted he would take all 21 delegates. Trying to downplay expectations just before the vote, Gramm said that he would be satisfied with taking only 11 delegates: "I intend to get up Wednesday morning, come to Iowa...
Disappointed by Dole's address, some G.O.P. leaders began concocting other scenarios for winning the White House. TIME's Jeffrey H. Birnbaum spins...
...code. Gingrich told reporters the proposal constitutes the beginning of "a very, very bold and very different new debate." Kemp challenged Clinton to appoint a bipartisan, blue ribbon commission to draft the sepcifics. But while well-intentioned, Kemp's commission is rooted in politics, notes TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "The flat tax is the hottest new issue on the campaign trail and has launched Steve Forbes into second place," he says. Since Jack Kemp is a longtime flat tax advocate, it seems odd that his commission didn't provide a detailed recommendation. But the commission, Birnbaum notes, "was packed with...