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...time," reports Edwards. "He's been taking things easy today, spending most of his time making sure that every bit of his large, well-organized campaign machinery in the state is working."A Flood of EndorsementsDole got some good news today with the endorsement of Pennsylvania Senator and former GOP presidential hopeful Arlen Specter. Specter said that he disagreed with Buchanan on trade and felt Alexander was playing both sides of the abortion issue. "If you take the totality of his positions, I think he has the best program for America," Specter said of Dole. Specter's announcement came...
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: As the GOP candidates head into the final weekend before the New Hampshire primary, only one thing is clear: none has yet captured the imaginations of a large bloc of voters. In the wake of Thursday night's televised debate, tracking polls show the candidates in much the same position they have been in all week: Bob Dole and Pat Buchanan locked in a dead heat for first, with Steve Forbes pushing hard just to charge past Lamar Alexander into third. "The debate in Manchester was an event of diminishing returns," TIME's Michael Duffy reports from...
After a devastating defeat in the Louisiana primary and a fifth-place finish in Iowa, Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) is calling it quits, leaving his supporters looking for a new candidate to back among the eight remaining GOP presidential contenders...
...Fellow GOP candidate] Alan Keyes ['72] is in it for the message, and so am I," Dornan said. "But I'm in the arena, and he's in the critic's gallery. I write the laws for the stuff he criticizes...
WASHINGTON, D. C.: Phil Gramm's well-financed presidential campaign limped to a halt Wednesday with the senator telling reporters that his poor showings in Iowa and Louisiana had convinced him he could not win the GOP nomination: "When the voter speaks, I listen, especially when the voter is speaking someone else's name." Gramm's exit brings to an early close a well-organized, nearly two-year old campaign. With an impressive $20-million plus campaignwar chest and several carefully-orchestrated wins in straw polls across the country, Gramm had worked hard to position himself as the conservative alternative...