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...early indications show that he will sign the bill into law." Republicans, led by former Senate Majority leader Bob Dole, had fought to keep the Medicaid legislation attached to the welfare bill in the hopes of denying the President an election year victory. With Thursday's shift in strategy, GOP lawmakers may gain personal credibility in their states for keeping their promise, but will also give Clinton the opportunity to make good on his 1992 campaign promise to "end welfare as we know it." The Dole campaign scrambled to take credit for the decision spearheaded by Newt Gingrich and Trent...
...YORK CITY: After a month of presidential campaigning dominated by talk of tobacco and assault weapons, President Clinton has increased his lead over GOP challenger Bob Dole. According to the latest TIME/CNN poll taken July 10-11, Clinton leads Dole by a 53-38 margin, up from a six-point lead in June. The numbers are below Clinton's 22-point lead in May, but still represent Clinton's second largest lead since the poll began last July. Dole appears to have been hurt by comments that tobacco may not be addictive and his failure to support a federal...
...crook, not the Nazi") he still received 39 percent of the vote. Duke also grabbed a resounding 44 percent of the vote in a run for the U.S. Senate in 1990. And last month, Republican Governor Mike Foster said he would support Duke if he became the GOP nominee. -->
...foot in his mouth, especially when he speaks to a tepid or hostile audience," she says. "The campaign might have calculated that Dole has more to lose by addressing the convention, and potentially saying something offensive." Dole did offer, unsuccessfully, to have former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp, the GOP's highest-profile progressive, speak instead. -- Lamia Abu-Haidar
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Maybe it's time to give up on Colin Powell. Just to make it clear to those who missed his drift last fall, the presumptive "dream candidate" and declared Republican has now ruled out campaigning for any GOP presidential candidate in 1996. Dole has publicly talked of looking forward to taking Powell along on the stump, but he is apparently out of luck. "I am practicing my own politics privately," Powell told AP Network News on Monday. The general added that he did not feel comfortable telling people how to vote. He did not rule out participating...