Word: gramm
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...speech doing any major damage with Iowa's conservative caucus voters, Dole aides are still worried. Unless something changes, Dole may not be able to punch through the 30% ceiling in the farm state, which would make it awfully hard to declare victory there. Moreover, if Forbes or Gramm comes close to 20%, or if both do, commentators could yet call this a two- or three-man race heading into New Hampshire. "Thirty is now the goal," said a top Dole official. "If the others pack around 15, we're golden." If not, he added, "it's going...
THOUGH IT WAS NEVER A FAIR fight, Dole never considered ducking it, or asking someone else, like rising-star Governor John Engler, to do the deed. Dole was worried that rival candidates, notably Phil Gramm, would jump on him for backing out of a fight. Instead, they lacerated him for losing it. "We saw [Clinton's] speech, and it was empty rhetoric," declared Gramm on Thursday. "And we saw Bob Dole's response--it was poor empty rhetoric." The Dole camp also considered a change of venue, like giving the response from Dole's home state of Kansas. But that...
...Dole's counterattack hit home, then rising once again. By Monday night, the eve of the speeches, Dole had dipped from the mid- to high 30s down to 30, but was flattening out there. Forbes, after some ups and downs, appeared to be leveling off at 18%, while Gramm, after a brief charge during which he briefly surpassed Forbes, held around...
...White House cornered the compassion market. The President's constant refrain that "we should balance the budget in a way that reflects our values" appealed to an American public that likes to think of itself as compassionate. "There is a tonal change," admits Alex Castellanos, media adviser to Phil Gramm. "You've just seen Republicans touch the hot stove of insensitivity on the budget...
With serious presidential contenders needing $20 million for the primaries alone, a candidate's most reliable friend, Phil Gramm once quipped, is "ready money." And there's none readier than what's in your own checkbook. Forbes says he is willing to spend $25 million. Perot shelled out more than $60 million...