Word: pete
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...field, and GOP voters just didn't seem to respond to him. While Specter is a very passionate senator, he doesn't have the stature a person needs to fill the office of the presidency." Specter, 65, is the second declared candidate to leave the race. California Governor Pete Wilson quit in September. Newt Gingrich said yesterday that he has virtually decided not to enter the race, and will announce his decision next Monday. "It just wasn't in the cards for Gingrich," reports political correspondent Michael Kramer. "He probably made the right political decision. Gingrich has real problems with...
...Their long slog to the top (John and Paul met on July 6, 1957, so that by the time the Beatles hit the U.S. in 1964, their career together was already half over) gets a brisk treatment, lighting for but a moment on the specters of Stu Sutcliffe and Pete Best, band members who fell by the wayside before the big time. The group defined its early cheekiness at the 1963 Royal Command Performance before the Queen, where John famously said, "Would the people in the cheap seats clap your hands, and the rest of you, if you'll just...
Powell is, therefore, much more liberal than most Republican voters, mixing fiscal conservatism and social liberalism. Pat Buchanan has vowed to lead the conservatives out of the convention should Powell be nominated. Pete Wilson not so subtly called Dole "The best general" to lead Republicans back to the White House. Newt Gingrich questioned whether he should enter the race because he thinks that Powell would move the party in the wrong direction. The party could face another bitter civil war, like that between Gold-water and Rockefeller, should Powell actually throw his hat in the ring...
...threat. The emotions he stirs are intense, both for him and against him. His negative ratings have consistently been roughly double the percentage of people who support him. Even some political operatives are wary of the risks. Sal Russo, a respected G.O.P. consultant in Sacramento, California, says he advised Pete Wilson to beware the fearmongering. "When you take that negative, finger-pointing path, you polarize your potential support. That means you can get to 50%, but it's hard to get much higher," Russo argues. "I believe it's much easier to get people revved up with a shining city...
Voter-rich California provided good news to two major players in the 1996 presidential election. Republican Senator Bob Dole obtained the key endorsement of Governor Pete Wilson, who only recently dropped out of the G.O.P. race. And Ross Perot's operatives handed over the signatures of some 100,000 Californians to state election officials-more than enough, if the names check out, to place his new independent party on the state ballot...