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...eternal second banana, the man thought too timid to sculpt his own political persona, the patrician who ran a pallid third in last month's Iowa caucuses and staggered into New Hampshire facing extinction, the bland campaigner who ended one debate by apologizing for his lack of eloquence -- this consensus choice as political nebbish suddenly transformed himself into the prim reaper who could not be denied. Bush last week harvested victories from Massachusetts and Rhode Island to Oklahoma and Texas. His weakest rival, Jack Kemp, promptly quit the Republican contest. Pat Robertson, another ostensible threat on Bush's right flank...
Bush's speeches on deficit reductions without tax increases, on education and the drug problem, tended toward the broad and bland. His managers used negative TV advertising reluctantly, poking at Dole on the air only in media markets where the Senator struck first. The Bushies enjoyed the front runner's luxury of emphasizing the positive -- a biospot, an endorsement by Barry Goldwater, a montage stressing their man's leadership ability. By the last weekend the scent of a blowout was in the air. In North Carolina, Missouri and Oklahoma, however, Dole still seemed to have a chance. Bush strategists added...
...many Republicans, it is the dream ticket. Such a bold play could shake the Vice President's cautious and bland image, giving a boost to his campaign. The bright and engaging Liddy Dole, who has served every President since Lyndon Johnson, would put extra zip into the G.O.P. drive. The choice of a woman could also help narrow the Democratic edge among female voters, who make up more than half the electorate...
Perhaps these comments more than anything else explain Jesse Jackson's growing appeal to liberal white voters. In the kingdom of the bland, the preacher who has got a sermon to sing is king. That may explain why Jackson received 19% of the vote in Dukakis' home state, even though blacks make up just 3% of the Massachusetts voting-age population. At a Jackson rally in Little Rock, a onetime Simon delegate who had switched her allegiance told the crowd, "I'm tired of trying to figure out who's going to win. I want to vote for the person...
...Baumohl, Peggy T. Berman, Val Castronovo, Nancy McD. Chase, Oscar Chiang, Georgia Harbison, Michael P. Harris, Anne Hopkins, Naushad S. Mehta, Nancy Newman, Jeanne- Marie North, Susan M. Reed, Elizabeth Rudulph, Alain L. Sanders, Zona Sparks, William Tynan, Susanne Washburn (Senior Staff); Wilmer Ames Jr., David Bjerklie, Elizabeth L. Bland, Kathleen Brady, Robert I. Burger, Barbara Burke, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, Nelida Gonzalez Cutler, Sally B. Donnelly, Andrea Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Tam Martinides Gray, Rodman Griffin, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac...