Word: doling
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Campaign Gofers. As the debate showed, Dole and Mondale are a bright pair of second bananas-hard-working, tough, loyal, reasonably reconciled to their status as glorified campaign gofers. They make an interesting contrast-old colleagues and old opponents from the Senate, Dole to the right of Ford, Mondale to the left of Carter...
Soldiering on, Dole has hit 36 states, Mondale 40. They bend the ear of everyone who will listen, undismayed by the fact that a Harris poll released earlier this month showed that many voters did not really know what they stood for-45% in the case of Mondale, 50% in the case of Dole...
...Dole has managed to remain unruffled despite occasionally haphazard scheduling. Once he was stranded at a Kentucky horse farm for an hour, talking to a single man-the manager. The candidate tries to shrug it off. Asked if he had a campaign plan, Dole once said, "No, I just have an airplane...
...Indeed, Dole's greatest asset on the stump has turned out to be his humor. But Ford did not select Dole as his running mate just for the laughs he might bring. A former G.O.P. national chairman, Dole can peel skin as well as tickle ribs. Dole accuses Carter of vaulting ambition and questions his "weird performance, his judgment" in the wake of the Playboy interview...
...Dole can be a crashing bore when delivering prepared remarks. Speaking to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco about the evils of entrusting the economy to Carter, Dole put the master of ceremonies to sleep, right at the head table. While the Senator can be charming in a small group, he has little rapport with the 20 or so reporters who ride in the back of the red, white and blue jet called the "Bob Dole Campaign Express...