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...occasion, Dole has drawn that line, as he did Sept. 8, when he appeared before the Christian Coalition's annual "Road to Victory" convention. Phil Gramm had spoken earlier and challenged the audience to demand that Dole, like Gramm, sign a pledge promising to support an antiabortion plank in the G.O.P.'s 1996 platform. When Dole arrived, several dozen members of the audience waved photocopies of the pledge and shouted, "Sign it!" Dole refused. "Don't look at pledges," he said. "Look at records...
...surprise in Florida's Republican straw poll on Saturday, taking 266 votes, or 8 percent of the vote, nearly as much support as fellow anti-abortion candidate Pat Buchanan drew. GOP frontrunner Bob Dole won the heat with 1,104 votes, or 33 percent of the vote to Phil Gramm's 26 percent second place showing (869 votes). Lamar Alexander, who garnered a respectable 749 votes, or 22 percent, was quick to claim he's gaining on Dole. Keyes, an African American radio personality and former Reagan Administration official, impressed many delegates with his fiery calls for cultural renewal. Barely...
That is especially devastating given the resources that Dole, like his opponents Gramm and Lamar Alexander, has been pouring into the Sunshine State in advance of the coming straw poll. Of all promiscuous primary rituals, these polls can do the most to torture front runners: because no real convention delegates are at stake, they are mainly useful for candidates to test the local party organizations. The straw polls only make news when the front runner stumbles--which can include winning by a smaller margin than expected...
...that every effort he makes to win the Florida contest just makes the auction seem more important and thus lifts the bar even higher. So it was dazzling to watch the contortions of his staffers as they tried to lower the expectations they had done so much to raise. Gramm and Alexander, the Dole campaign spin goes, are both Southerners competing on their home field, and anything short of victory for Gramm is a major loss. "We're trying to sort of invade their territory and battle them on message and organization," says Warren Tompkins, the senior Southern consultant...
...runs, Dole's agents are already telephoning supporters across the country, tightening their links to people whose backing they think is shaky. They are also boasting of important--and impending--new endorsements by Republican governors. And if Powell doesn't run, Dole has readied market-tested TV ads attacking Gramm. Meanwhile, the Dole campaign has been getting an assist from an unusual quarter: the White House. Terrified of a Powell entry and praying for an easier opponent, the Clinton White House looked like it was staging photo ops for the Dole campaign. At this point, Dole will take his friends...