Word: lugar
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EXETER, N.H.--While his opponents sparred in the Iowa cornfields, Republican presidential candidate and Sen. Richard M. Lugar (R-Ind.) toured two New Hampshire cities Saturday afternoon in the hopes of bolstering his low poll numbers here...
Despite recent polls showing that he has the support of only four percent of Granite State voters, Lugar insisted he is running "a legitimate, serious campaign" and painted himself as the only candidate willing to address the issues facing Americans today...
...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 tossing people off the welfare wagon; now he says we need to feel sympathy for those riding in the cart as well for those pulling...
Republican presidential hopeful Richard Lugar released an ad Thursday that portrays him as the only cool head in the field on gun control. "Being a conservative doesn't mean you have to lose your common sense," the 30-second, televised spot informs Iowa voters. The Indiana senator, who says he believes in Americans' rights to own a gun "for self-protection, to hunt and to collect," stresses that he was the only member of Congress running for the nomination to have opposed the 1994 assault weapons ban vetoed by President Clinton. The ad concludes: "There is no right to sweep...
...Lugar said that his election committee has been working hard to increase his standing in the national polls...