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Though the Wednesday- and Thursday-night polls did not show the speech doing any major damage with Iowa's conservative caucus voters, Dole aides are still worried. Unless something changes, Dole may not be able to punch through the 30% ceiling in the farm state, which would make it awfully hard to declare victory there. Moreover, if Forbes or Gramm comes close to 20%, or if both do, commentators could yet call this a two- or three-man race heading into New Hampshire. "Thirty is now the goal," said a top Dole official. "If the others pack around...
...search committee is chaired by Robert G. Doyle, director of instructional media and piano technical services, and will include members of the Freshman Caucus, according to Nathans...
...first rich man with a Big Idea to try to enter American politics at the top; nor is this the first time the mainstream candidates have courted an electorate so eager to rebuke them. So why is he now in second place in four key primary and caucus states, surrounded by reporters wherever he goes, seeing his flat-tax gospel embraced by the other campaigns and generally making the rest of the candidates feel so queasy...
...stands little chance of actually defeating Dole in Iowa, where organization is still supposed to count for more than advertising. "You can spend $25 million of your own money and buy yourself a position in the polls," says Dole campaign staff member Darrell Kearney, "but you can't buy caucus attendance...
...professional phone bank making 4,000 calls for him daily. Forbes supporters tend to be mainly independents and moderates with weak party ties who are younger than Dole's or Gramm's backers by at least 10 years and less likely than the diehards to haul themselves to a caucus on voting night. "My observation," says Gramm's pollster, Linda DiVall, "is that the Forbes vote is a place holder where people are parking their vote because they haven't seen Gramm or Alexander on the air to the extent they have seen Forbes...