Word: doles
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Then again, if Dole loses the big prize but helps his party keep the House, a deeply discouraged G.O.P. will be thankful for what it can get. Republicans, who have been edgy in private for weeks, are getting edgy in public. Last week William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, declared the presidential race a lost cause and urged congressional candidates to sell themselves to voters as a check on Clinton's liberal impulses in his inevitable second term. Columnist Morton Kondracke reported that the candidates were getting ready to do just that. During postdebate analysis...
...Dole's advisers insist that their California strategy is not a concession to defeat but a smartly calculated best shot at a come-from-behind win. If nothing else, they say, it will keep alive national media attention to Dole, something that a big push in less glittery Indiana wouldn't do. And that spotlight, Dole's advisers hope, could convince voters generally that Dole is not yesterday's news. "It energizes your base in other places when you see Bob Dole fighting for California," says Steve Merksamer, who was statewide head of the Bush campaign...
...Dole advisers how many appearances their man will actually be making in California, and they hedge. That has led to suspicions that even this new strategy is partly just spin, intended to sustain the fading notion that his campaign has somewhere to go. But the Dole campaign, which claims to have a little less than $20 million in its national treasure chest, is promising to spend a third of it on California television buys. Dole ads are disappearing in some other states, like Ohio, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Maybe the money really is heading west...
...California strategy grew out of a series of top-level conversations that began last month. Along with Barbour and Gingrich, the chief backers of the plan have been Dole's campaign Californians: running mate Kemp and consultants John Sears and Ken Kachigian, plus Merksamer. On Oct. 12, the candidate finally signed on during a long meeting at his Washington headquarters. By the time of his debate with Clinton the following Wednesday night, Dole was salting his remarks with references to California's hot-button issues: affirmative action, illegal immigration and defense-spending cuts...
...Thursday, Elizabeth Dole turned up at a Riggs campaign rally. She may or may not be an asset. Her husband stands to get about 30% of the vote in Riggs' district generally. But Riggs made sure he was onstage with Mrs. Dole at her appearance in Eureka because it's in Humboldt County, part of the more conservative northern part of his district. House majority leader Dick Armey has also passed through. Genial multimillionaire Steve Forbes is next...