Word: doles
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...after next summer's Democratic Convention, when the general election campaign officially begins, he would be barred from spending anything. That would make it difficult to defend himself against certain assaults from the G.O.P. Edwards strategists say outside groups could do some of that for him, but when Bob Dole found himself in similar straits in 1996, he was reduced to doing photo ops at gas stations around the Beltway to get attention...
...compressed. Will that make Iowa and New Hampshire more or less important? No one is certain. I suspect that the slingshot effect out of Iowa and New Hampshire could be greater than ever. In fact, in recent years Iowa has become an increasingly good predictor of the nominee: Bob Dole and Bush won Iowa in 1996 and 2000, respectively, and went on to win the GOP nomination; Al Gore and John Kerry won Iowa in 2000 and 2004 and prevailed on the Democratic side. But in a multicandidate field in Iowa, which it looks as if we'll have...
...just by being in touch with their (and your) feelings, but also by telling you until you were sick of it just how in touch with their bloody feelings they were. Less than a year earlier, after all, Bill Clinton, the hugger in chief, had crushed poor Bob Dole, a war hero who had made a whole career out of keeping his emotions, and his physical pain for that matter, well hidden...
...After Dole'speech announcing he was stepping down from the Senate to restart his Presidential bid, one Senator stood up and declared, "Today the President [Clinton] learned he is in the biggest fight of his political life." Yep, the speaker was John McCain...
...Part of being a convincing fighter is also demonstrating that your toughness isn't a recent development. And that's why so many fighting words are tied to personal biography. In 1996, Bob Dole-15 points down against Bill Clinton, restarted his campaign by resigning from the Senate in a way that reminded voters that he has gritted his way through adversity before: "...I will be the same man I was when I walked into this room, the same man I was yesterday . . . and a long time ago, when I rose from my hospital bed and was permitted...