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...most polls placing Dole, conservative commentator Patrick J. Buchanan and former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander in a statistical dead heat, Dole hit the campaign trail last weekend no longer portraying himself as the most qualified candidate for the nomination. Instead, he made a desperate effort to appear as the GOP's only legitimate hope for reclaiming the White House...
Dole followers are hoping Gramm's endorsement portrays a sense of unity within the GOP that will attract Republican voters who want nothing more than their man in the White House...
...candidates wrestle to define the soul of the party, voters are presented with a clear choice. As Senate majority leader, Dole, 72, has played a major role in shaping the GOP agenda over the past two years. But he has been attacked by Alexander as "lacking vision" and by Buchanan as too moderate...
...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...