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...result you've been waiting for--and it's free, at least until we open Stengel & Son, Pollsters Inc. The survey was conducted by telephone on Nov. 2 among one adult registered American voter, age 18 or older. The margin of error is plus or minus 0%. So, Bob Dole? "You know I like Bob Dole," my father says. "I think I like him better in the Senate than as a presidential candidate." Perot? "Too nutty." Clinton? "He's talking about education--that's the only way to make this country great." Dad, if the election were held Tuesday (which...
...realm of honest graft, Clinton didn't do anything Bob Dole didn't do; he and his party just did it with the seal of the White House behind them. What does a $25,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee mean? It will get an event with Al Gore at the vice-presidential mansion. Twice that amount gets a party of 10 people into the White House to see the President. And $100,000? That's a small dinner with the President at the Hay Adams Hotel just across from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...Dole, once known around Capitol Hill for wearing his price tags on his sleeve, was content to call for a bipartisan commission to take the issue "out of politics." But both candidates have little standing on the issue: Clinton did propose a bill in 1994, but he never pressed for it. So it fell to Ross Perot to lend credibility to the cause last week, and his poll numbers quickly began rising into double digits across several closely fought states. "If I am your President," he said, "we will put a sign all across Washington--NOT FOR SALE...
...intricate squalor of Democratic fund raising is the news of the moment. But here's a big surprise: funny money is a bipartisan indulgence. Here's another: Bob Dole--gasp!--is in on the game. For most of his Senate career, Dole was the pro of the quid pro quo. No one else has been more effective at working the filigree of legislation, digging out just the groove to let the American government's generosity flow unimpeded to his most loyal supporters. And the G.O.P. generally has engaged for years in imaginative fund raising, and favors trading that would make...
Consider New York Senator Alfonse D'Amato, Dole's campaign co-chairman, who, U.S. officials told TIME, recently held hostage the foreign aid of the African nation of Zimbabwe at the behest of American International Group, an insurance giant that is a major donor to the G.O.P. Since 1990, AIG has given almost $300,000 in "soft money" to Republican Party committees, including $178,000 in this election cycle. An AIG subsidiary, Unity Insurance Co., is the only U.S.-based financial-services firm in Zimbabwe. Since 1987 that country has been demanding that foreign-owned financial companies draft plans...