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...quietly won support during the 1994 season, but his ability to raise serious money remains questionable. His message too is problematic. Sending power and responsibility back to the states is politically attractive, but if Congress shows it can produce, Dole will have the better of the argument. A new entrant, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter, will visit Iowa and New Hampshire this week. Specter too is pro-choice, but his intense grilling of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings could serve to hobble...
Journalists are not known as a self-effacing bunch, but for flagrant self- promotion, there is nothing quite like TV's entertainment-news shows. "Now an Extra exclusive!" boasts the latest entrant in the field, hyping a visit with Michael Douglas on the set of Disclosure. "Only on Entertainment Tonight," trumpets its competitor, "can you get an exclusive look" at the new Star Trek movie. "You won't see it anywhere else . . ." "Now, only on Extra!" -- the reporting coups come faster than commercials during the Super Bowl...
...BOTTOM LINE: The newest entrant in the talk-show wars takes a giant pratfall...
Consider, for example, a presidential race in which the leading candidate tap-dances and croons torch songs, carries on a tabloid affair with a beauty- pageant entrant and has a running mate who is a national joke when he's not a faceless nonentity. This party's winning agenda consists of one word: love. Americans are urged to vote their belief in romance, and overwhelmingly they fall...
Thus it is possible to write a basic, though speculative, script: the vote in the early primaries is distributed so widely that no candidate is in sight of a majority. A late entrant sweeps the last batch of primaries, notably the final ones on June 2 in California, New Jersey, Alabama, New Mexico and Montana, the closest approach to a nationwide one-day sampling that the season offers. The superdelegates flock to his banner. Finally, one of the early candidates who obviously is not going to make it -- or who has already dropped out -- swings a deal. In return, perhaps...