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...camps getting to $20 million? The preferred forum is the large, $1,000-a-head event at a big hotel or convention center, like Gramm's kickoff dinner in Dallas, which raised $4 million. The big events raise the most money, partly because they have the lowest average cost. Thus Alexander's 2,000-person event Monday night in Nashville should bring in $2 million in ticket sales before being offset by $150,000 to $180,000 in expenses. But that is not the bottom line. Because the first $250 of every $1,000 ticket is eligible for federal matching...
...donor is then pressed to identify another 10 to 20 friends to do the same. The complex task of assembling so many names helps explain why veteran fund raisers, who boast networks of anywhere from 2,500 to 10,000 potential donors, have been courted so heavily by Dole, Gramm and Alexander in 1994 and 1995. "The objective is to find 20,000 people to give you $1,000 each," says Wayne Berman, a top G.O.P. fund raiser who is being wooed heavily by both Dole and California Governor Pete Wilson...
...publicity bonanza for a state that most Americans aren't all that curious about, it may do wonders for the state's creamed-chicken industry, but do we need to spend all of 1995 reading those same handicapping stories (RACE IS DOLE'S TO LOSE, SAY INSIDERS, BUT GRAMM NARROWS GAP) and Sunday think pieces (IS PRIMARY CAMPAIGN TOO LONG AND EXPENSIVE?) decrying the shallowness and mendacity and flummery...
...hubris, a voice that sounds like a peanut grinder, a big fishy loan, a shadowy past at the draft board, a bimbo in the closet). But it is humiliation enough just to run for President. Scandal hardly makes it worse. Scandal, in fact, endears the candidate to us. Senator Gramm, when asked why he had opted against military service in his youth, said, "It didn't make sense for a Ph.D. in economics, 26 years old, at the peak of the draft, to leave Texas A&M University and join the Army. Nobody was going to send me to Vietnam...
...false step into the swamp of abortion politics can drown you. Say anything but that you are pro-life in the primaries and you will lose the nomination, but scare the pro-choicers and you may lose the election. So what's a candidate to do? Robert Dole, Phil Gramm and Lamar Alexander all claim the pro-life label, but not the mantle. They wrinkle their noses, say they personally don't like abortion-as if a personal preference substitutes for a clear-cut public policy. Dole and Gramm wriggle out of answering the key questions: Would you support...