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...members of the team are as follows: Tim Maeyens (Belgium), Alan Campbell (Britain), Lassi Karonen (Sweden), Marcel Hacker (Germany), Mahe Drysdale (New Zealand), Warren Anderson (U.S.A.), Onderj Synek (Czech Republic), Iztok Cop (Slovenia). Ali Williams, a Harvard lecturer, heads up the boat as the coxswain...
...standard this time around? No, argues a senior Dole aide: "Our number is 30%." That spin might have been laughable two months ago. It isn't today. In interviews with six leading campaign operatives, a consensus emerges: "Forbes has done Dole a favor by lowering the bar," says Eddie Mahe. "Now that he's falling, a win for Dole by any margin...
...thanks to Buckley v. Valeo, an 18-year-old Supreme Court decision that ruled it unconstitutional to limit the amount of money a citizen can give to his or her own campaign. Of course, you can't use Buckley effectively unless you're wealthy. Says veteran G.O.P. consultant Eddie Mahe: "Other things being equal, a challenger who cannot jump-start his own campaign might as well forget...
...being too rough also has its perils. Humor has to watch its step. A joke the slightest bit off-key can come across as a sexist put-down. When anything a candidate says can be used against him, even metaphors must be sexually correct. Warns Republican political consultant Eddie Mahe: "A sports reference like 'three yards and a cloud of dust' can get you in trouble if you are running against a woman...
...Mahe says the contest in either party could be wide open even after March 8 -- the mega-Tuesday that has at least 16 primaries and caucuses -- if no one has captured 40% of the delegates chosen up to that point. "Everyone in the race will be out of money," Mahe predicts, "fatigued, with fatigued staffs, fatigued messages." So there could be an opening for a classy contender -- Howard Baker or (if Bush collapses) James Baker on the Republican side, Cuomo or someone like New Jersey's Senator Bill Bradley on the Democratic side -- to ride in from the sidelines...