Word: gramm
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...genial man with a heartfelt belief that if America's entrepreneurial energies are unleashed, its families protected and its politicians chastened, everything will turn out O.K. This may be his most surprising contribution to the race: after a year in which Republicans like Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan and Phil Gramm tried to outworry each other on affirmative action, immigration and crime, along comes Forbes, who wipes the polarizing issues off the table. In their place is the Reaganesque liturgy of hope and opportunity: "You don't have to bash immigrants," says Forbes' former media adviser Sal Russo...
...night, Forbes has 26 county chairs signed on and 750 volunteer precinct workers, as well as a professional phone bank making 4,000 calls for him daily. Forbes supporters tend to be mainly independents and moderates with weak party ties who are younger than Dole's or Gramm's backers by at least 10 years and less likely than the diehards to haul themselves to a caucus on voting night. "My observation," says Gramm's pollster, Linda DiVall, "is that the Forbes vote is a place holder where people are parking their vote because they haven't seen Gramm...
Dole waited a long time before he fought back; for one thing, since the whole Forbes phenomenon was hurting his opponents more, he hoped they would fight off the upstart themselves and let him remain above the fray. But money troubles in the Gramm and Alexander camps--though both have raised millions, their cash on hand is sometimes precarious--prevented them from making sustained counterstrikes, and so it fell to Dole. His campaign staff argued for a while about how and when to fight back and decided to aim a broadside at Forbes (tag line: Untested leadership. Risky ideas) just...
...perversion of all of this," says Alexander campaign media adviser Mike Murphy, "is that [Forbes] got in to stop Dole, but the only effect he's having is to help him. In exchange for helping Dole, he's going to get to be the Secretary of Rich Clueless Guys." Gramm shares Alexander's dilemma, but he has more to lose. Gramm cannot rely on Dole to target Forbes much longer, since the Dole camp wants only to wound Forbes, not kill him off. That means Gramm will have to attack Forbes on the air if he hopes to slip past...
...polls has led to a case of me-tooism among his G.O.P. rivals, several of whom quickly announced their flat-tax plans last week even while attacking Forbes' scheme as favoring, in Pat Buchanan's barb, "the boys down at the yacht basin." Buchanan and Senator Phil Gramm offered single-rate tax plans that would retain the popular deductions for mortgage interest and charitable contributions and would tax investment income. A long-shot candidate, self-made tire magnate Morry Taylor, asks why Forbes would charge him nothing on the $15 million he collected last year in stock profits but charge...