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...Diminutive Texas billionaire and longshot presidential hopeful Ross Perot at a campaign stop in Texas yesterday. There are no pending criminal charges against President Clinton or his wife, and there is no evidence that voters would allow Ross Perot to baby-sit their children either...
While Ceaser called the possibility of nominating a fresh candidate like Kemp or Powell a "longshot," he added that negotiations between state party leaders in preparation for a brokered convention could begin as early as April, well before the convention...
...backed off from his lifetime of positions on affirmative action, rejected a donation from gay Republicans and signed the same nefarious New Hampshire anti-tax pledge that he had forthrightly and courageously refused to autograph eight years ago. Now, knowing that the 2004 campaign is something of a longshot for him, Bob Dole is seeing his last chance for the job he knows he deserves slip away. At this point, he'll be anyone to be president...
...Gene Saks, can't get the local judge to agree. Unfortunately for Sully, his lawyer isn't on a hot streak. He can't even predict the outcome of a case on "The People's Court." Sully has a better chance of collecting money on the Trifecta ticket--a longshot in horseracing--that he plays every...
...announced he'll challenge Gephardt for the Democrats' top House job. The Rose rationale: the Party faithful might be better off if they?re less faithful to President Clinton. "Our president is not our prime minister, and the (congressional) leaders are not his chief whips," said Rose, a moderate and longshot who had his eye on the Speakership before the Dems lost control of Congress. California Rep. George Miller, a liberal and chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, is also a rumored contender.Post your opinion on theWashingtonbulletin board...