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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...
...fray easily...and fall apart after one or two uses," he says...
...guard of the welfare state." The President spoke of the Age of Possibility; Dole of the Era of Darkness. Clinton spoke to 250 million Americans; Dole to 20,000 Christian conservatives in Iowa. Clinton was inclusive and optimistic; Dole was unforgiving and retro. Clinton was the leader above the fray; Dole was the fray. The only good news was that so many viewers turned off their sets before he came on. "It was," said a Dole adviser who watched in pain, "pathetic...
...October 1993, when Yeltsin's opponents challenged his presidency by force, it was an act of principle as well as prudence for the U.S. to stand beside him. In '96, when they are challenging him at the ballot box, it is neither principled nor prudent to enter the fray...
...areas of public service and randomization, he jumped into the fray long before he became dean, with his Report on the Structure of Harvard College released a year and a half...