Word: doled
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Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas admitted after the White House meeting that "we are still short a few according to my count" of the 100-member Senate...
...ability to draw new, enthusiastic workers into dreary political scut work was most evident at the meeting in Ames, a fund-raising dinner that featured a straw poll for those who bought $25 tickets and had an Iowa driver's license. The Bush campaign, along with those of Bob Dole and Jack Kemp, went all out to pack the arena with supporters. But even before the first candidate spoke, it was obvious that Robertson's forces had pulled off a coup. Dressed in white T shirts and hats emblazoned with their champion's name, they clearly outnumbered and outcheered their...
When the 3,843 votes were counted -- more than twice the turnout of eight years ago, when Bush won national notice with a surprising win -- Robertson had blindsided his opponents with 34% of the votes, vs. 25% for Dole, 23% for Bush and 14% for Kemp. Although the results had only symbolic significance, Robertson's victory showed his ability to turn out loyal supporters, which is critical to success in Iowa's February caucuses. With the verbal italics he uses so effectively, Robertson later proclaimed, "The Vice President has been wounded very badly...
More significant, he has a high "negative" rating: 28% of Republicans said they had a "favorable" impression of him and 62% an "unfavorable" one. That 2-to-1 negative ratio was by far the worst of any candidate's. Dole, for example, has a 70% favorable rating, 17% unfavorable...
...years in the cynical corridors of Washington, Dole has never shed her civics-student earnestness. It is ingrained in her speech: her husband's campaign will provide her with an "opportunity"; she looks forward to the "challenge." Deep down, she is still traditional. "When Bob makes his announcement," she says, "instinctively I want to be at his side." Warm, feminine and indefatigably gracious, she embodies what Americans seem to expect of a potential First Lady, but not precisely what they were used to in a powerful and problem-plagued Cabinet Secretary. Combining those two roles, she found, is nearly impossible...