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...Dole can all but wrap up the GOP presidential nomination by sweeping today's Super Tuesday primaries, influential Republicans are urging his top two rivals to drop out of the race. Dole has already amassed 392 delegates -- more than a third of the way to the 996 needed to clinch the nomination -- and is expected to win a majority of the 362 delegates at stake today. Although Dole said he thinks he will win the nomination, he would not press Pat Buchanan or Steve Forbes to drop out of the race. "I've never been very good at putting pressure...
...podium somewhere and he'll be there for the last rites," Dole told TIME. "Not going to happen." But what all the candidates are counting on is the growing evidence that even if Dole stays lucky he will have trouble winning the 996 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination before the convention. According to intricate computer models by Steve Grand of Wilson Communications, if Dole wins Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, most of Maryland, all of Maine, all of Vermont, half of New York, half of Missouri, most of Florida, half of Texas, two-thirds of Illinois, half of Michigan...
Dole won at least 90 of the 93 New York ballots, bringing his total to 380. Forbes and Buchanan had 72 and 62 delegates respectively. Some 996 delegates are needed to clinch the party's nomination...
...stake in the next contest, in New York on Thursday. Dole and Forbes are the only candidates on the ballot in all state congressional districts, and Dole has the backing of the Republican party leaders. TIME National Political Correspondent Michael Duffy says this week's developments virtually clinch the nomination for Dole. "Before, it was Dole's nomination to lose. Now, it's Dole's nomination," says Duffy. "He still has three more big primary days in three weeks, if Forbes stays in it, but he's already turning his attention to defeating Clinton."Then There Were...
...final set, the Elis were obviously psychologically out of the game, with passes going all over the place. However, Harvard seemed to just coast at times, playing uninspired ball and ending up with a 15-12 clinch...