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This funk starts at the top. Bob Dole's campaign has yet to find its feet or its voice. His strategy of running for President by running the Senate has hit up against the White House's strategy, which consists in part of letting congressional Republicans expose themselves in public while Clinton says, "Tsk, tsk." Right now it's working. In recent weeks the President's lead over Dole in the polls has been growing about 2 points a week; the gap is now 14 points...
...votes to assure an override. Republicans had pushed hard for the bill, one of the elements of the GOP's Contract With America, which they said would lower prices of many goods and services by cutting the insurance and litigation costs of manufacturers. As Clinton vetoed the measure, Bob Dole cried foul and charged that the President, whose campaign received $2.5 million dollars from lawyers and law firms last year, was in the pocket of the trial lawyers that opposed the bill. Noting that corporations and organizations supporting the bill pumped almost $6 million last year into the war chests...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: With polls show him loosing about two points a week to President Clinton in the polls, Bob Dole has began casting about for solutions. The campaign filled a position that had been vacant for several weeks by hiring John Buckley, but the addition is just one step toward assembling a more effective team. Making up a 20-point deficit will be made much more difficult by the caliber of President Clinton's campaign machine, says TIME's Tamala Edwards. "The Clinton campaign made a name for itself in 1992 for its rapid response, so you have the masters...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The GOP's internal debate over abortion heated up when California Governor Pete Wilson said Monday that he would work with New York and New Jersey governors to remove the anti-abortion plank from the party's platform at the Republican national convention. The words put Bob Dole's California campaign manager at odds with the GOP nominee. Dole has said he has no intention of changing the Republican platform in regards to abortion. Wilson dropped this political bomb on the putative nominee during a Washington visit to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on affirmative action...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The GOP's internal debate over abortion heated up when California Governor Pete Wilson said Monday that he would work with New York and New Jersey governors to remove the anti-abortion plank from the party's platform at the Republican national convention. The words put Bob Dole's California campaign manager at odds with the GOP nominee. Dole has said he has no intention of changing the Republican platform in regards to abortion. Wilson dropped this political bomb on the putative nominee during a Washington visit to testify before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on affirmative action...