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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...
...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...
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...