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...only drama in yesterday's Midwestern primaries was whether Senate Majority Leader Robert J. Dole could win Michigan and Wisconsin by wide enough margins to clinch the nomination...
Eager not to make next week's California contest anticlimactic, the Dole camp said it would not claim victory regardless of yesterday's results. Still, Dole knew the prize that eluded him in two prior White House bids would soon be his. "I think this virtually locks it up," Dole told the Associated Press. "...It is 230 days to defeating Bill Clinton. The first time I came up empty. The last time I came up short. This time I'm coming up full...
...stake were 67 delegates in Ohio, 59 in Illinois, 57 in Michigan and 36 in Wisconsin--219 in all. Based on preliminary results yesterday, Dole had 951 delegates in The Associated Press count--drawing near the 996 necessary to clinch nomination. Buchanan, by comparison, had but 86 delegates...
Buchanan's best hope to slow Dole was in Michigan, the only one of the four states that allocated its delegates in direct proportion to the results rather than on a winner-take-all basis...
These industrial battlegrounds are likely to be pivotal come November. Yesterday's results showed Dole getting 67 percent in Ohio, to 17 percent for Buchanan. Illinois was 61 percent for Dole and 24 percent for Buchanan. Early Michigan returns had Dole with 53 percent, Buchanan 34 percent--his best showing of the primary season...