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...voters polled, 23 said they would vote for Powell if the primary were held today, compared to 22 percent for Dole -- essentially a tie, since the poll has a 5.3 percent margin of error. Perennial New Hampshire favorite Pat Buchanan would get 12 percent of the vote, with Lamar Alexander taking seven percent. The biggest winner among skeptical state party members? Undecided, with 27 percent...
...reserved a more prestigious Internet address (http://www.dole96.org/). (Their slogan: "Dole. The ripe man for the job"). Dole is a recent convert to the Internet, following in the footsteps of pages created by his competitors, Phil Gramm, Pat Buchanan and the red plaid page that is home to Lamar Alexander...
Talk about a political grab bag! At last Friday's Presidential Campaign Conference over at the Kennedy School, supporters of former Secretary of Education Lamar Alexander were distributing a video dubbed "Lamar!" The offer was topped by the Bob Dole camp's audio tape, but couldn't really compete with Pat Buchanan's world wide web home page or the t-shirts from Morry Taylor, the delusionary Republican Perot. Some candidates' giveaways were more significant...
...points East late this summer while trying to catch up with the G.O.P. front runners, Wilson repeated that "only three of us can expect to raise the table stakes for the whole primary campaign." This meant that only he, Dole and Phil Gramm--and not Pat Buchanan, Richard Lugar, Lamar Alexander, Arlen Specter or Alan Keyes--could hope to raise the estimated $20 million needed for the nomination marathon. Yet his organization's own estimates put Wilson's total last week just above $6 million, in contrast to $17 million for Dole and more than $12 million for Gramm. TIME...
...suitors began paying court months ago. When H. Ross Perot stopped by Hilton Head, South Carolina, last year, his "phone pal" Lamar Alexander, the former Governor of Tennessee who would soon become a Republican candidate for President, personally rushed out to the airport to meet him and drive him to the waterside home where the Governor was vacationing. There, over iced tea in a living room overlooking Calibogue Sound, Alexander, in his khakis, and Perot, in his business suit, indulged in some plain talk. "Ross," Alexander said, "if you do what you did last time, we'll get Clinton again...