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...supply-side devotee whose call for a "simple, flat tax" won wide support in the polls. But Dole's alliance with the Christian Coalition--a marriage of convenience, since the group was ideologically closer to Pat Buchanan but wanted most of all to win--paid off in Iowa on Feb. 12, as coalition members followed their leaders and voted for Dole. Forbes was mostly cooked. But then in New Hampshire eight days later, Buchanan upset the party favorite. That loss reflected Dole's inherent weakness despite two years of hard campaigning. The problem was his learning curve: there wasn...
...find some Americans," Braynin worked through Fred Lowell, a San Francisco lawyer with close ties to California's Republican Party. On Feb. 14, Lowell called Joe Shumate, a G.O.P. expert in political data analysis who had served as deputy chief of staff to California Governor Pete Wilson. Since Wilson's drive for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination had ended almost before it began, Lowell thought Shumate and George Gorton, Wilson's longtime top strategist, might be available to help Yeltsin. They were--and they immediately enlisted Richard Dresner, a New York-based consultant who had worked with them on many...
Then, at 3 p.m. on Feb. 27, Dresner met with Soskovets. In English, the First Deputy Prime Minister asked, "How's our friend Bill doing?" Most of the hour-long session was spent discussing Clinton's re-election prospects. Dresner had prepared a five-page proposal that called for the Americans to "introduce your campaign staff to sophisticated methods of message development, polling, voter contact and campaign organization...
Billy Payne's first great burst of inspiration arrived on the morning of Feb. 8, 1987. He was addressing his church congregation during the dedication of a sanctuary whose fund-raising committee he had chaired, and as he gazed out at the smiling faces of his friends, he experienced a rush of emotion at the pleasure and pride they all felt at the spirit of sacrifice that produced this noble moment. "Boy, that was a great feeling," he recalls telling his wife Martha later that day. "We gotta think of something else that will bring people together in that kind...
...politicians, and he would gladly meet with Newt Gingrich "if I could." That would take some doing, since the Speaker of the House has named Coia as a figure in "a scandal that's about to break." Well, maybe not right away. As Luskin notes, the union has until Feb. 11, 1998, "to prove the deal was sound" and that the union really can cleanse itself...