Word: gramm
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...PEOPLE TEND TO PICK straightforward names for their pets, as with Gus, the slobbery Labrador who has been barking at former presidential candidate Phil Gramm for staying too long on the campaign trail. Lamar Alexander, though, is a cat person, and when his family acquired two new kittens last year, he dubbed them Kato and Ito, a hopeful play on the potential of fame. For the past year, as Alexander struggled to win the attention of Republican-primary voters, he would flash his chin-up smile and explain that he was "encouraged by the experience of Kato Kaelin that...
Television coverage has been even more susceptible to the game-centered approach to the campaign. In recent weeks, the Sunday morning "news" shows, featuring the candidates and their spin doctors, have focused their discussions on strategy-based questions as well as the usual soundbite-generators. ("Exactly when will Senator Gramm endorse Senator Dole?" "Can Alexander compete with Dole's money?" "Could you support Buchanan as the nominee...
...There's one obstacle...one man standing in the way," Dole said at the Gramm endorsement press conference. "When [Clinton] leaves, things are going to get a lot better for America and America's children...
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...
Dole has seen his long-held lead steadily erode over the past week. On Sunday, he enlisted the aid of former president candidate Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Tex.) to portray himself as a true conservative and the only candidate able to beat President Clinton this November...