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When he traveled on Wednesday through a blizzard to the 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...
...found that journalism suited him--he could pick fights in print and not with his fists. He became an editorial writer on the Midwest's most conservative paper, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, writing blood-and-guts editorials in favor of Barry Goldwater and against the Great Society, decrying communism and the Red Menace. He pictured himself as a young version of the right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler--"standing flat on his feet, swinging for the belly," as he wrote home at the time...
This quick reversal is less shocking if one looks back to November 1992, two years before the Republican victory--when Clinton ended 12 years of Republican presidential rule, winning back large areas of the South and the precious "Reagan Democrats." Or one could go back another 2 years, to the aftermath of the Gulf War, when hen-President George Bush had approval ratings in the 90 percent range, and not a single prominent Democrat would run against...
...said she thinks Buchanan is too conservative to win an election against the Democrat. "I think a lot of Republicans think he is too far [to the] right," Sherman said...
...longtime supporter of Buchanan, Balfrey said the former conservative commentator has the best leadership skills of any candidate, Republican or Democrat...