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Four others -- Jack Kemp, Pete du Pont, Pat Robertson and Alexander Haig -- have spoken out against the deal, and Bob Dole has expressed only lukewarm support. Their disapproval is all the more surprising since Republican voters overwhelmingly favor it. A CBS/New York Times poll recently reported that 62% of adult Americans, including 63% of Republicans, like the treaty. An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll surveyed probable voters in Iowa and New Hampshire and found support for the INF accord among 77% of Republicans in Iowa and 74% in New Hampshire...
...treaty, which is expected to be signed by both Reagan and Gorbachev this afternoon, will still require a two-thirds vote from the Senate in order to be ratified. The activists filled out several hundred postcards to be sent from the Cambridge community as a petition to Sen. Robert Dole (R-Ka.) and Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) to show public support for the treaty...
Among them were a sprinkling of presidentialcandidates, Republicans George Bush, Bob Dole andAlexander Haig and Democrat Al Gore...
...offer is the flat observation, "To this day, like every parent who has ever lost a child, we wonder why." One mentions this incident not to fault Bush but to highlight the difficulties in trying to assess the meaning of life experiences. No one can write about Bob Dole without discussing his withered right arm and the three years he spent in military hospitals recovering from his war wounds. But reporters with no better qualifications than a few college psychology courses should be chary about pronouncing judgment on the relationship between his suffering and his fitness to be President...
More generally, though, it was hard to leave last night's debate impressed with the Democratic field. According to the latest polls, Dukakis and Simon are pulling ahead of the pack in Iowa and the Duke has an overwhelming lead in New Hampshire. The same polls also show Sen. Dole with higher favorable ratings among Democrats than any of the Dems already in the hunt...