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MORE than anything else, Iowa 1988 will be remembered as the beginning of the end for the Republican Party's chances of capturing the White House in 1988. Former television evangelist Marion "Pat" Robertson's startling second place finish in the caucuses on Monday night has destroyed the party's chances of ever again attracting the voters who gave Reagan his landslide victories...
Thornburgh also said that he was not surprised by Pat Robertson's second place finish, because Robertson's supporters took part in a grass roots organization well-suited to the caucus procedure...
Northeastern is now 14-9-4 and Boston University dropped to 11-13-3. Both teams are battling for playoff spots in their conference, Hockey East. The Beanpot, which does not count in league standings, unofficially determines the best Boston area college hockey team, although many promising teams often finish out of the money...
...employing a sly gambit to help their man in the Iowa expectations game. Supporters have been told to tell pollsters they might not attend a caucus. Since nearly all Iowa surveys , are discarding "unlikely attenders," Robertson will end up with an artificially low figure in the polls. Thus his finish on caucus night is more likely to produce a p.r. boost by being better than the polls indicated...
...made the difference, he says, "was that I got engaged to Jane," who was studying modern languages at Cambridge. "This gave me something to live for." As he explains, "If we were to get married, I had to get a job. And to get a job, I had to finish my Ph.D. I started working hard for the first time in my life. To my surprise, I found I liked...