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...whole nominating process melts down and no one has a majority of delegates going into the party's August convention. Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson even shared his with TIME: Colin Powell, Jack Kemp, Bill Bennett, some mainstream Senator, a nice modern Governor and, at the very bottom, Newt Gingrich. When Dole began winning again last week, he won himself a reprieve. The Governors, for the time being at least, stopped thinking about where to bury him and began scheming about how to save him from the traps that still lie ahead...
...worry much about Alexander anymore. The former Tennessee Governor's flimsy showing in South Carolina belied the idea that he would start to win once the race headed South. "We can already feel the buzz disappearing," said an Alexander senior staff member last week. So did House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In an interview with TIME Saturday evening, Gingrich pronounced Alexander finished. "Lamar had a good clean shot, but when you're down eight or nine percent, the strategy of waiting for Dole to wear out is not going to work...
CONGRESS IS BACK IN SESSION NOW, AND Newt Gingrich--remember him?--is chewing over numbers. For Gingrich the House Speaker, there are all the usual budget totals and legislative head counts to think about. But for Gingrich the Party Strategist, there's just one big number: 35%. That's the high-end estimate of how many Republicans go for Pat Buchanan. What worries the G.O.P. leadership is that some of them might leave with him too should the party turn its back on them. Even if Buchanan doesn't become the Republican nominee--and G.O.P. leaders are still convinced...
...meeting last week between Gingrich and a group of House Republicans, Indiana Representative Mark Souder urged the Speaker to consider some measures that aren't found in the texts of party orthodoxy. Last year, for instance, Republicans in Congress backed an effort to make it easier for employers to withdraw excess money from employee pension funds. Souder argued for a gesture in the opposite direction: making pensions portable, so that a worker who has been laid off can take his pension with him. Gingrich gave back "his kind of tilted-chin, inquisitive look," says Souder. To anyone familiar with...
...them are the very ones most likely to drive away moderates. The response from some quarters of the party has been to declare Buchanan beyond the pale. William Bennett, the moralist-at-large backing Lamar Alexander, has even predicted a third-party effort if Buchanan is the nominee. What Gingrich is hearing from many of the influential G.O.P. freshmen, however, is that the Buchanan crowd is a force that must be reckoned with. "It's not a real bright idea for some of the more senior Republicans around here to be calling this group extremists," says Representative Joe Scarborough...