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...emerging. The race will be won and lost in the middle-class suburbs and ethnic enclaves of Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and New Jersey. Holding those precincts means winning over independent voters who went for Bush in 1988 and Clinton in 1992 and delivered the House of Representatives to Gingrich in 1994. Whether a Midwesterner is vital isn't yet certain. But in general terms, young is preferable to old, Catholic is better than Protestant, and pro-life beats pro-choice. Which helps explain why some hopefuls are more hopeful than others. We assess their prospects...
Even before these contretemps, Dole had doubts about Engler's judgment after the Governor helped talk Speaker Newt Gingrich into a government shutdown during the budget talks, a move from which the party has yet to recover. Outgoing, Catholic and an excellent campaigner, Engler avoided the draft because he was categorized I-Y for being 2 lbs. overweight in one exam and 10 lbs. in another. Even so, Michigan remains so vital to Dole that he recently auditioned Engler; the Senator and the Governor made joint TV appearances, conveyed by satellite so that Dole could rate Engler's performance...
Elizabeth Dole is joined in her push by House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour, who would like the candidate to name someone shrewd, trusted and sporting enough to try to coordinate Dole's decisions as majority leader with the demands of a tough campaign against Bill Clinton. Party leaders suggest that only a few Republicans have the stature to go toe to toe with Dole: former South Carolina Governor Carroll Campbell, former Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber and former Reagan chief of staff Kenneth Duberstein. But there are two problems: Dole has always jealously guarded that...
...senior Cochran and beating him to the position of majority whip in 1994. "They have never liked each other," says TIME's James Carney. "Lott is more conservative and at heart is really a House member who happens to be in the Senate. He belong to the more Gingrich-style Republicans. Cochran is not nearly as conservative or brash as Lott." Dole's unexpected announcement has drastically altered the character of a contest that Lott would have been favored to win. "Everyone expected this contest to be played out in November when the more moderate Republicans, like Nancy Kassebaum...
...Right (or, more correctly, the Republican Party--which, Mr. Brown should be reminded, does not have a monopoly on conservative thought in this nation) that so disgusted me. It is precisely because liberal cum Democrat writers have not been able to put together a more effective response to Gingrich & Co. that the Republicans swept into Congress in 1994. However fat Rush Limbaugh may be, making fun of his obesity does not by any means cast his opinions in a darker light--unless you are a truly shallow human being. Brown's editorial displayed a lack of political astuteness that should...