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...will participate in the caucus, attendance will be decisive in the results of the straw poll. A low turnout will help Dukakis, who has maintained fairly constant support, while a large turnout will hurt him, because a surge of enthusiatic voters could come to the polls in support of Gephardt, Murphy said...
HART. For re-entering. Runner-up: the Dukakis campaign for releasing the attack video on Biden, then fueling the rumor that Gephardt's people...
...attacking the press, he is joining the club; the time- honored sport of press bashing is a growth industry in 1988. Gary Hart, upon re-entering the race, abjured the media as part of his campaign to "let the people decide," and he has not let up since then. Gephardt's new populist lumps "editorial boards and writers" in the "Establishment" that he has suddenly decided to decry...
...could spell the difference between heartburn and heartthrob. With a tightly bunched field and estimates of turnout as low as 90,000 Democrats, the support of a few thousand caucus attendees may be all that separates the victor from also-ran status. The latest political tout sheets label Richard Gephardt as the freckle-faced favorite; he put on last week's most elaborately choreographed media event, importing 42 House colleagues to stand with him on the state capitol steps. The message was simultaneously powerful and confusing, since this impressive exhibit of insider solidarity jarred with Gephardt's suspect, but successful...
Running neck and neck with Gephardt are Michael Dukakis and Paul Simon. Dukakis, in particular, remains formidable with his no-fuss, no-muss campaign style. "Dukakis gets the safe-driver award of this campaign," concedes David Axelrod, Simon's media adviser. "He never goes more than 40 miles an hour, but he never gets into any accidents." Dukakis unveiled last week a series of ! skillfully produced television ads, designed to convey passion without committing him to specifics beyond Democratic Party boiler plate. In one TV spot, picture-perfect toddlers gambol in front of an oversize flag as a toy piano...