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...Robert Dole or George Bush receives the Republican nomination, Democrats will at best be able to split the Mid-West. The big industrial states of Ohio and Illinois will go Democratic, although a healthy economy could help the GOP. The farm states will vote Republican, as they have in the past four elections...
This leaves the two parties at a virtual dead heat--the Dems with 181 electoral college votes and the GOP with 190. Whoever captures California and the South wins...
WHICH OF the probable Democratic candidates could do well in the white South? The presence of a woman or a minority on the ticket in 1988--even in the VP slot--will almost certainly throw the South whole-heartedly into the GOP camp...
...simple tastes in politics tell me that the two scandals are very similar. Both prove that the Republican Party is "so far right, it's right out of the picture." In 1964, with the nomination of Barry Goldwater, the right wing grabbed hold of the GOP and barring a few small lapses, it has solidified its grip to this...
...article, Buchanan compared North to those who took part in the underground railway to free slaves and others who broke laws but were later considered to be heroes. He complained that leading GOP legislators had turned on the president over the Iran-Contras controversy...