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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...toward Dole stems from the senior senator's tendency to "flip-flop" on issues and on Dole's recent tiff with the national Log Cabin's Club, a group of gay Republicans in which Spampinato claims membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Voters Mixed on GOP Candidates | 3/6/1996 | See Source »

CALL IT THE FLIPPER FLIP-FLOP. A squabble over attempts to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act is forging some strange alliances even as it opens up a bitter rift in the environmental movement. In the end, it may be business interests--once the villains in the piece but now terrified of a boycott by dolphin-loving consumers--that decide the matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHICKEN OF THE SEA? | 3/4/1996 | See Source »

Occupying the flip side of that coin is second-place Dartmouth (15-8, 7-4), whose run for a repeat came to a screeching halt last weekend in upset losses to the Quakers and the Tigers...

Author: By Brian N. Phillips, | Title: W. Basketball NCAA Bound? | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...more, Alexander retains this Mr. Clean image even while running a campaign that is subtly negative. As Dole points out, Alexander was the first of the G.O.P. candidates to run an attack ad, back in September, against Pete Wilson, whom he accused of sins ranging from tax increases to flip-flopping on affirmative action. But Alexander had the good sense to stop running such ads before voters in Iowa and New Hampshire turned against them. He has come this far mainly by emphasizing what he is not: not old, not mean, not a "Washington insider" or a "Wall Street insider...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: THE SEARCH FOR ALEXANDER | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...Bush campaign, which mortally wounded Dole's candidacy with negative ads in 1988. Late on a snowy Friday in February of that year, Governor John Sununu, running the Bush campaign in New Hampshire, personally delivered to WMUR-TV an ad called "Senator Straddle," which detailed Dole's flip-flops to devastating effect. Late on a snowy Friday last week, Governor Steve Merrill, a Sununu protege, personally delivered to WMUR an ad that attacked Alexander as "too liberal." The ad reminded voters that Alexander once proposed a state income tax for Tennessee, which, like taxophobic New Hampshire, does not have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: THE SEARCH FOR ALEXANDER | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

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