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...crucial Congressional seats in California. Trailing by a sizeable margin in a number of key states including California, Dole is nevertheless spending a large amount of his dwindling and scarce resources campaigning in the state. At stake for both parties here is more than just the Presidency. GOP gains in Congressional seats in California were a large component of the Republican landslide of 1994. This year, a backlash has a number of seats up for grabs, and Democrats think if they take enough, it could be sufficient to give them control of the House. As both men hole up with...
BOSTON--Women's rights activist Gloria Steinem joined five other panelists at Northeastern University yesterday in attacking GOP presidential candidate Robert J. Dole and praising Democratic candidates for their commitment to women...
Republicans, on the other hand, said that Kemp proved his worth as a strong running mate for GOP nominee Robert J. Dole...
CINCINNATI: Bob Dole just won't stop talking about Colin Powell. Hoping to invigorate his flagging campaign by association with the one man who still causes the Clinton campaign to worry, the GOP candidate hinted again to reporters that if the Republicans win, Powell would join his Cabinet in a star position. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs did join Dole at a political rally in Cincinnati Thursday. Although he praised Dole's war experience and foreign policy acumen, Powell would not address rumors that he would accept a post as Secretary of State in a Dole Administration. "Still...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Have President Clinton and GOP candidate Bob Dole been fudging federal campaign finance laws? Common Cause, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group called Wednesday for an independent investigation, claiming both the Republican and Democratic campaigns have spent millions of dollars raised for general "party building" improperly on TV ads directly endorsing the candidates. "Clearly, there is massive spending on both sides, which goes to the edge of legality, and may have crossed over," says TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "Something certainly will be done about campaign finance, either in the courts or in the legislature. But although Bob Dole touched...