Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Michael Duffy reports from Washington that Kemp's announcement, coming a day after Dole swept all eight Junior Tuesday primaries, has pundits shaking their heads. Says Duffy: "Jack Kemp's extreme sense of bad timing lives on." In an interview with CNN, Kemp said he was prompted into the fray after the Dole campaign began attacking Forbes' economic proposals, which Kemp said were very close to Dole's own.Congress Passes Helms-Burton
Disgust with the tenor of the campaign in Iowa drove many voters toward Alexander, who said he was "sticking to the high road" and remaining above the fray...
Indeed, as Forbes' support has grown, his susceptibility to attack has actually decreased, Dole officials say, because he is seen by voters as above the political fray. Internal campaign polls, which carefully measure how deep a candidate's support actually is, find that Forbes is still climbing even as support for the flat tax erodes. Any tough challenge to his math is skillfully deflected as the product of Washington insiders with a vested interest in the current system. "You can't look at [Forbes'] candidacy in conventional terms," said Don Sipple, a Dole media adviser. "You have to look...
...make a very strong showing in the caucuses. SaysTIME Managing Editor Walter Isaacson, "The key thing that characterizes Alexander's campaign is that he's been spending most of his time in a small plane making hops throughout Iowa. He's making the case that he is above the fray and is not the candidate of negative ads, a la Steve Forbes...
...fray easily...and fall apart after one or two uses," he says...