Word: kemp
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...possible disappointment in the GOP race, especially for those in the Northeast, is Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), who early in the campaign was expected to make a strong showing, but has since faded into the pack of candidates...
...Kemp campaign officials said they still see the N.H. race as a two-man battle between Bush and Kemp, discounting Dole's influence. "He does not have very good organization," said Kemp's N.H. Campaign Director Paul A. Young...
...that the atmospheric conditions have to be right for thunder." Conservative indignation is difficult to sustain, even though Reagan has failed to follow through with his social agenda and is about to sign an arms deal with the Soviet Union. Explains Lance Tarrance, a conservative pollster working for Kemp: "Once outlanders get their man in, they tend not to behave like outlanders...
...Bush and Dole so seemingly unworried about retribution from the right? Partly because the conservative faithful lack a totem with the stature of Barry Goldwater in 1964 or Reagan in 1980. Jack Kemp has been grooming himself for the role of high priest of the Reaganite church, but he has been unable to rise above the status of altar boy. Kemp revealed last week that he has borrowed against his federal matching funds (due in January) for the second time, a telling indication of his failure to rally the true believers. And in Iowa, Kemp is in danger of being...
Some Republican wingers have gravitated to Pete du Pont, who has positioned himself to the right of Kemp with his advocacy of drug testing in the schools and free-market nostrums like eliminating farm subsidies. But the former Delaware Governor remains too patrician for most conservatives and too conservative for most patricians...