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Some columnists have argued that the Republicans, through control of the governorship in 31 states and having a strong base of support in states with large numbers of electoral vote, have a lock on the presidency in two-way races. But this is just not consistent with the latest poll data. Clinton is currently crushing le by 16 percent overall and lead. Role in every state except for a handful of states with few electoral votes (Time-CNN poll...
Kentucky Republicans are stressing the need for change as they attempt to wrest the governorship from 24 years of Democratic control. Larry Forgy, an attorney, is running under the Republican banner and challenging current Lt. Gov. Paul Patton...
...only turn in public life was as chairman of the board of International Broadcasting for eight years, a position that gave him a little exposure to Washington. His foray into campaign politics so far consists of advising Christine Todd Whitman in her successful run for the New Jersey governorship in 1993. So he takes comfort in the example of Wendell Willkie, the utilities executive and political neophyte who grabbed the G.O.P. nomination in 1940. Forbes is willing to spend $10 million of his own money--an estimated 5% of his fortune--on his outsider...
...regard for Perot has ebbed. Waning loyalty to the major parties, rather than enthusiasm for any one independent leader, whets the appetite for alternatives. "You're going to see a centrist, third-party challenge in '96, without question," says Lowell Weicker, a former Republican Senator who won Connecticut's governorship as an independent. Others speculate about a fourth party as well...
...having just raised $26 million for the Governor's race, can he really go back to the well all over again and say, 'Oh, now I have to raise more money to run for President'?" Most important, powerful Republicans in Sacramento are pressuring Wilson not to relinquish the governorship to the capable but liberal Democratic Lieutenant Governor, Gray Davis. Wilson, however, has a history of overcoming tactical ob-stacles with the grit of a Marine platoon leader showing recruits how to scale a roped wall, which he once did. In 28 years of elective politics, Wilson has lost just...