Word: patting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dole has finally cleared the first hurdle. Dole swept four Midwest primaries Tuesday, clinching the Republican presidential nomination. Dole can now turn his attention fully to November's election. "The fall campaign is under way. It is 230 days to defeating Bill Clinton," he said. Dole easily beat rival Pat Buchanan in Illinois, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, pushing him past the 996 mark in delegates needed for the nomination. Buchanan has vowed to stay in the race in an effort to shape the GOP platform and Dole's choice for running mate. Dole ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination...
...particular, the collapse of Buchanan's prospects leaves an opening for Perot to collect some of Pat Buchanan's radically unhappy constituents with their concerns about wage stagnation and job security. But first these voters have to find Perot's Reform Party. For now it is guaranteed a ballot spot in just four states: California, North Dakota, Utah and South Carolina. In another half a dozen states, independent parties already on the ballot, most of them spin-offs from the '92 Perot campaign, are expected to merge with the Reform Party. And Perot lieutenants are pressing petition drives elsewhere...
...PAT BUCHANAN KNOWS HE CAN'T BEAT BOB DOLE, SO he's picking a new fight--with Colin Powell. Sipping from a Styrofoam cup of Chardonnay during a late-night fl ight to Knoxville, Tennessee, last week, Buchanan told TIME, "If Dole wins the nomination and chooses Colin Powell as his running mate, the right-to-life movement will walk out of the convention, a good part of the Christian Coalition will walk, and the principled conservatives will battle" the Powell choice. Chief among them, he promises, will be Pat Buchanan...
...party remained silent. Such aggressiveness has given some of Dole's team hope that the general might be angry enough to accept their entreaties to get on board. People close to the general think otherwise. Michael Powell, his son, told TIME that it is "farfetched to think Pat Buchanan's presence will make him want to put on the armor and come rolling in." If so, this would be one fight that Buchanan wins by a forfeiture...
...rules weren't posted, but Reed knew what they were. Pat Buchanan was permitted to call Bob Dole "Beltway Bob," for instance, but Dole was not allowed to call Buchanan an extremist. Bob Dornan was allowed to say anything he wanted to say, for the same reason your wacky Uncle Harry was allowed to say anything he wanted...