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Scarborough warns that a good many G.O.P. freshmen were elected with a campaign message not unlike the one Buchanan offers: trade protectionism, social conservatism and something not so different from isolationism in foreign affairs. that's why, once in washington, they were out front in the fight against NAFTA, the Mexican bailout and the U.S. mission in Bosnia. Those Buchanan-ish freshmen, Scarborough insists, have grasped themes that are key to the future strength of the G.O.P. coalition. "We finally have a group of Republicans who know how to appeal to people who are earning $30,000 or less...
...Buchanan has that know-how. In the TIME/CNN Election Monitor, he's the G.O.P. candidate with the largest share of supporters, 31%, in the $20,000-to-$35,000 income range. The same group comprises just 21% of Dole's backers, 19% of Alexander's and 14% of Forbes'. Mario Abruzzini, 37, is a bricklayer in Concord, California, who likes Buchanan because he's concerned about immigration but also because he bares his fangs at the business elite. "People need to be aware of how some of these corporations are treating their employees," he says...
...Republicans, the very sources of Buchanan's strength, the red-hot positions and saw-toothed language, make a virtue of Dole's familiarity, his room-temperature manner and his gift for legislative dealing. When the Election Monitor asked which candidate had the best chance of beating Bill Clinton, Dole came out ahead. "Buchanan just sends off so many sparks," says California-based pollster Mervin Field. "If ever somebody polarized the public, it's Buchanan. He's given a new definition to the word polarizing...
...Buchanan? I don't know," says Dole supporter Isobel Cameron, a 63-year-old retiree from Palm Coast, Florida. "He's scary in a lot of ways. I hate to use the word radical, but he's too far out on some issues." That's the opening that Alexander hopes to exploit. The "lesser of three evils" is how he's described by Ron Stump, 46, a military veteran and now a student in industrial distribution in Lexington, Nebraska. To put it another way, an indefinable aura of middleness is his greatest strength. Shirley Ferris, 72, an Alexander supporter...
...line with other polls, what the Election Monitor points to is a race in which different constituencies within the party--not all of them compatible ones--each have a clear and present candidate. For the radically discontented, Buchanan. For the upscale suburbanite whose main concern is tax relief, Forbes. That leaves Dole and Alexander to divide between them the Republican center. "More than in most races one can imagine the prototypical Dole, Buchanan and Forbes voters," says Republican strategist William Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard. "You can imagine them living very different lives and not liking each other very...