Word: buchanan
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...from playing the snarling bully, Pat Buchanan alone seemed to be having fun, winding up, lobbing snowballs at his rivals and savoring the feeling of preaching to the choir. This was the state where he scared George Bush in 1988 by winning 37.4% of the vote. No matter how strong the state's economy has become--unemployment stands at 3.2%, well below the national average--or how many goods are exported with the help of Clinton's hated trade agreements, Buchanan could count on large, rapt, eager crowds wherever he went, of displaced workers and converted flower children and anyone...
...North Country hamlet of Littleton, the part of the state that gave him his margin last time, he met his disciples. Lillian Giberson, 84, spent most of her working life working for a Democrat in the Maine legislature. She hobbled across the street in the falling snow to hear Buchanan speak at the Caledonia Opera House. In the pocket of her old blue snow jacket she carried an envelope containing $100. She said she'd been paid $50 by the Alexander campaign to post his sign in her front yard. The other $50 she took from her Social Security check...
...debate, the whole game went public and hand to hand. Dole tried to parry the many punches with counterpunches and humor, or sometimes by ignoring them. He lost himself in numbers and bills and vetoes and at times was almost incomprehensible. He talked in the third-person absurd, and Buchanan was caught looking heavenward and rolling his eyes as Dole, head tilted to one side, a little ill at ease, struggled to get through his list...
...would now fall to Dole, his aides said, to try to "win it ugly" over the next couple of days, campaigning hard, using new negative spots on Buchanan and Alexander. The next day the Dole campaign released a text of Alexander's 1985 state-of-the-state speech in which the former Tennessee Governor called for a state income tax, an apostasy in taxophobic New Hampshire...
...deep voice and large gesture who declaimed on makeshift stages in small towns and villages in the 19th century. For one night only, they performed Hamlet's soliloquies and Tennyson's odes and transported the locals to a distant world. Last week, on a snowy New Hampshire evening, Pat Buchanan brought his one-man traveling show to the Victorian-era Opera House in the northern town of Littleton, a gemlike stage once graced by Mrs. Tom Thumb and Gorgeous George...