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...meantime, Lamar Alexander and Pat Buchanan have bumped up against a ceiling at 10%; Phil Gramm will try to hang on through the early races to reach his home turf in the Southern primaries on March 12. He parcels out his money dime by dime, flying around in rattletrap planes, wearing a beige wool coat he bought from a street vendor in Washington in 1979 and until recently sporting shabby shoes and a broken watch. Aides joke that they've thought the Senator would make one of them share a room with him if the local Super 8 gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: IS FORBES FOR REAL? | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...Dole aide. And Forbes is doing this in several states at once, and not only on local TV and radio stations, but on cable TV as well. "Forbes gets you up; he drives you to work," says Iowa House majority leader Brent Siegrist of Council Bluffs, who supports Lamar Alexander. "He's on the radio all day at work; he drives you home and he puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: IS FORBES FOR REAL? | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...caucuses. Instead of attacking his opponents, Dole preached the virtues of experience and conservative leadership to a crowd of supporters in Ottumwa. On Thursday, his tracking polls showed his support hovering around 22 percent. A strong late push had Pat Buchanan tied with Steve Forbes at 16 percent, and Lamar Alexander was running fourth at 12. The big surprise of the week came from Buchanan, who got a big bounce in the polls after his surprise defeat of Phil Gramm Tuesday in the Louisiana caucuses. Buchanan's jump was good news for the Dole campaign, which is counting on Buchanan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking The High Road To The Polls | 2/9/1996 | See Source »

...Monitor poll, conducted from Jan. 30 to Feb. 1, shows Forbes with 26 percent of the vote, Dole with 22 percent and political commentator Patrick J. Buchanan and former Gov. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) tied with 13 percent each...

Author: By C.r. Mcfadden, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Politicians Seek N.H. Votes | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

...about numbers [but] about the character of our nation." Last week in the town of Clinton, Iowa, Dole beseeched a crowd not to dismiss him and his fellow Republicans as being cold-blooded about Medicare: "We have feelings, and we care about people," he said. Last week Lamar Alexander visited a teen drug-treatment center in Hampton, New Hampshire, and talked poignantly about the need for neighborhood charity. A campaign ad for Senator Dick Lugar touts the fact that he fought against turning the federal school-lunch program into block grants. Even Gramm has modulated his granite-hearted talk about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: COMPASSION IS BACK | 2/5/1996 | See Source »

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