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...election season. But Bob Dole continues to work for votes. "How low will the White House go?" Dole asked audiences in Florida, referring to a flurry of Democratic ads that claim Dole as President would cut Medicare spending. Polls now show that Florida, usually counted on by the GOP for 25 electoral votes, is up for grabs with Clinton and Dole running in a dead heat. Meanwhile, a new California poll shows Clinton holding on to an 18 point lead in that state, leading Dole 52 to 34 percent. In spite of bad news from the pollsters, Dole insisted...
PHOENIX: Still smarting after Democratic setbacks in the 1994 mid-term elections, union leaders unleashed a massive war chest to avoid a repeat in 1996. For the past year, the AFL-CIO has waged a $35 million campaign against vulnerable GOP freshmen and the Republican positions on Medicare, education and the minimum wage. At the top of the union's target list is Arizona's 6th District, which stretches from the Phoenix suburbs north to the Utah border. Representative J.D. Hayworth, a former college football player and sportscaster, is locked in a tight race with Steve Owens, a former aide...
After hearing the Republican from Kansas accept the GOP nomination for the White House, presidential adviser Harold Ickes said cuttingly, "If this is the best [he] can do, the Democratic Campaign Committee ought to spend all the money it can raise to send him out to make speeches." The year was 1936 and Alf Landon was the Republican nominee. Today, Harold Ickes, the son of the Interior Secretary, is deputy White House chief of staff. Yet, somewhere near there, the similarities end. In 1936, Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 ran for reelection and clearly delineated the choice before the American people...
Mixner, who flew in from North Carolina, where he was working in the campaign against GOP Senate incumbent Jesse Helms, said his immediate goal is to get a Democratic majority in Congress...
...longer view and tries to achieve what he can without a win," says TIME's Tamala Edwards. "He's stuck between the two. Does he want to go out screaming his way into history or be remembered for running a gentleman's campaign?" Perhaps more importantly for the GOP is the question of whether Dole will use the next two weeks to help the party retain the hold on the House it won in 1994. The Dole campaign's recent shift in focus to California, all but conceding a number of smaller swing states such as Pennsylvania and Connecticut, shows...