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...also blamed his performance on the antics of rival candidate and friend, commentator Patrick J. Buchanan...
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Republican presidential candidates spent Tuesday trying to put the best possible spin on the results of Monday's Iowa Caucuses. For the surging campaigns of Pat Buchanan and Lamar Alexander, that meant each proclaiming loudly and often that he was the only real rival to Bob Dole. "In the end, it's going to be a contest between Bob Dole and me," Alexander said, while Buchanan, who finished just three points behind Dole, told reporters he was "the one conservative who can with this nomination." For others, it was harder to put a positive face...
...meantime, Lamar Alexander and Pat Buchanan have bumped up against a ceiling at 10%; Phil Gramm will try to hang on through the early races to reach his home turf in the Southern primaries on March 12. He parcels out his money dime by dime, flying around in rattletrap planes, wearing a beige wool coat he bought from a street vendor in Washington in 1979 and until recently sporting shabby shoes and a broken watch. Aides joke that they've thought the Senator would make one of them share a room with him if the local Super 8 gave...
...Election Monitor in November. But Forbes has become the indisputable second. He is the choice of 17%, a sizable step up from the 4% who picked him before. As for the rest of the G.O.P. field, every one of them is still an et cetera. Phil Gramm 9%, Pat Buchanan 6%, Lamar Alexander 3%. Et cetera...
Perhaps we should not feel sorry for Dole. Because if Steve Forbes' support in New Hampshire turns out to be more than a fluke, and Phil Gramm and Pat Buchanan inch higher in the polls, Dole will get desperate, and the result will be painful for us all to see. Dole's initial flurry of negative attack ads has been futile, and he is now starting to reach for his secret weapon--his war injury...