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...South Carolina belied the idea that he would start to win once the race headed South. "We can already feel the buzz disappearing," said an Alexander senior staff member last week. So did House Speaker Newt Gingrich. In an interview with TIME Saturday evening, Gingrich pronounced Alexander finished. "Lamar had a good clean shot, but when you're down eight or nine percent, the strategy of waiting for Dole to wear out is not going to work...
...history of not bowing out, and remains defiant now. And what if the Governors try to dry up the money? "They can't turn off the money," says Alexander's senior consultant, Mike Murphy, "because they never turned it on. We'll keep going until it's me and Lamar and a minivan, if that's what it takes...
This performance is starting to rankle. "I think Lamar believes I'm going to fall off the podium somewhere and he'll be there for the last rites," Dole told TIME. "Not going to happen." But what all the candidates are counting on is the growing evidence that even if Dole stays lucky he will have trouble winning the 996 delegates he needs to clinch the nomination before the convention. According to intricate computer models by Steve Grand of Wilson Communications, if Dole wins Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, most of Maryland, all of Maine, all of Vermont, half of New York...
Among the other Republican candidates, former Tennessee gov. Lamar Alexander received 144 votes, Sen. Richard G. Lugar (R-Ind.) received 91, and Alan L. Keyes '72 received...
...better if we were all together," Dole said Friday, suggesting that both candidates should bow to reality and support him. "I think it's pretty clear I'm going to get the nomination," Dole told reporters, before leaving Florida for an afternoon campaign stop in Tennessee with former rival Lamar Alexander. Rejecting Dole's suggestion, Pat Buchanan told Louisiana supporters that he would "walk on in this battle as long as it takes." Echoing Buchanan's sentiments, Forbes said he too was in for the duration. "The purpose of staying in is to go all the way," Forbes said...