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...chief debate coach, Ailes took the blame for Bush's being tense during the first debate. "It was my job to get him relaxed and confident, and it didn't happen," he conceded. On the morning of the second debate, Ailes got a call at 6:45 from Bush saying that he wanted to see him at 8. When Ailes arrived, Bush was already going over his briefing papers. Ailes gave him a "pepper" drill, rapid-fire questions and answers to test Bush's reflexes and the shape of his answers...
Benazir Bhutto's campaign had barely got off the ground two weeks ago, when she came down with a kidney infection, little more than a month after giving birth to a son, Bilawal. But Bhutto's opponents have their own problems. The leading member of the Alliance is the Pakistan Muslim League, which dominated the National Assembly under Zia. Though the League has a hold on all four provinces, it lacks a national leader...
Sixty percent of the voters in the ABC poll said defense spending should stay the same or be increased; not surprisingly, nearly 70% of this group went for Bush. Dukakis got 74% of the minority who think the Pentagon needs less money. Crime -- sometimes a code word for race -- was a winner for the Republicans. In a CBS/New York Times poll, 25% of Bush voters cited crime as a major reason for supporting...
...same. Dukakis won 73% of the small minority of pessimists, but Bush captured 61% of the optimists and 58% of the middle group. And Ronald Reagan had coattails: of the 53% who approved of the job the President is doing, 86% voted for Bush. The Vice President also got a tremendous boost from his ! resume. Those who counted experience as the most important factor in their choice backed Bush by an overwhelming majority, 94% to 6% in the ABC poll. ABC also found that voters rated Bush highly as being trustworthy and a strong leader...
...dastardly plot to eliminate him from the campaign. In the limousine on the way over to the network, Bush protested that he could answer questions about Iran; he had been doing so all along. Ailes said, "You don't understand something. This is a hit squad . . . They've got you up against the wall. They're putting the blindfold on you. It's all over, pal." It was all a plot on the part of Dan Rather, Ailes argued, who was not a newsman but an ideological...