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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Alexander, as skilled and slick a pol as ever pretended not to be one, the week finally gave him his spotlight. He woke up Tuesday morning with all sorts of advantages: he was still an unknown, so his negative ratings were low in a field where everyone else's were rising. He was so cash strapped he could barely afford negative ads, which allowed him to take credit for not running any. The morning after Iowa he spent on a conference call with more than 200 rainmakers, winning their promise to raise at least $5,000 each by week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN '96: INSIDE THE RACE: THE SECRET TEST OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | 2/26/1996 | See Source »

...barring that, it would be nice if the candidate hailed from an electoral swing state. He or she might belong to a sought-after voting group like, say, Catholics. But most of all, you would want someone who has been on the national scene without being a Washington pol. Someone who knows how to get things done. A Governor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICAN ROLE MODEL | 2/19/1996 | See Source »

Nixon in his campaign speeches promised to end the Vietnam war. Instead, he escalated that war, and it continued for four more years. Nixon secretly bombed Cambodia. The massive carpet-bombing of the Cambodian countryside caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and increased peasant support for the murderous Pol Pot. It helped facilitate the genocide that occurred later in Cambodia...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nixon Guilty of War Crimes | 2/17/1996 | See Source »

Since then, any pol worth his consulting fee has tried to lowball his own candidate's prospects while inflating his opponent's. The high chutzpah mark was reached in 1972 when George McGovern's 37% showing in New Hampshire was taken as a victory because a key aide to Ed Muskie had stupidly said she'd cut her throat if Muskie didn't get half the vote--a bar he missed by three points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GRADING EXPECTATIONS | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

...activist who is hoping to tap into the city's sizable gay vote. The result is the most closely contested mayoral race in the nation. When voters go to the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 7, they must choose among a low-key pragmatist like Jordan, a well-connected professional pol like Brown and a seasoned social activist like Achtenberg. "San Francisco was one of the first cities in the nation to test whether people who aren't professional politicians can run governments as well as or better than politicians who have been in office for years and years," says independent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAN FRANCISCO: PICK ONE OF THE ABOVE | 11/6/1995 | See Source »

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