Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush spent the day in Houston savoring his 16-state primary sweep and the roughly 600 delegates they brought. The outlook for Illinois wasn't bad either, as Gov. James Thompson was backing the vice president and Sen. Bob Dole (R.-Kan.)'s own campaign polls gave Bush the lead...
...Vice President apparently tried to nudge Dole from the race. He declined his rival's challenge to debate him in Illinois with a telegram that said the time had come to "look ahead to the issues which distinguish us from the Democrats...
...Dole awoke to a campaign in shambles after losing all 17 Super Tuesday states and conceded, "I've got to win Illinois" to save his candidacy...
...prove he is a viable candidate. But George Bush maintains a commanding lead in the region, and a frustrated Robertson last week resorted to a series of outlandish remarks, including a suggestion that the Bush team had timed the Jimmy Swaggart scandal to embarrass the Robertson campaign. Bob Dole was buoyed by impressive triumphs in South Dakota (55% of the G.O.P. vote) and Minnesota (43%), but his disorganized campaign has still not caught fire in much of the South. His strongest champion in the South remains his wife Elizabeth, who was born in North Carolina and is working the region...
...Latham. "I have his tape right here. I listen to it in the car." At Frank Roberts' barbershop on Main Street in High Point, however, the former preacher is hardly taken seriously. "Pat Robertson?" says Roberts. "We never hear the name." According to Roberts, the G.O.P. race is between Dole and Bush. "Dole's biggest asset is Liddy," say the barber. "She is absolutely better than he is. She ought to run." Some of the customers like Gore for his electability. But Barber Harvey Speaks is skeptical. Says he: "Jimmy Carter killed the chances for another Southern President...