Word: pushes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be put in the position of having to use my limited political capital to push something that I am not particularly behind," he said...
Dole's opponents are outraged. Buchanan confronted Dole about the tactic, called push polling, during the debate last week in Manchester. What's more, many voters who received the calls are upset. "It's sleazy and makes me mad," says Andrew Schwaegler, 29, a tree farmer in Orford who claims he got four calls that included assertions about Steve Forbes' positions on gays in the military and abortion...
...campaign even asked nasty questions about Dole himself to help devise a defense for expected attacks on his tax policies. What is new this time is that voters are tired of hearing politicians slime one another, and are beginning to lash back even at campaign methods as arcane as push polls...
...Lamar was the one, and then I got it in the realm of realness, and volunteered.... I stuffed some envelopes, went around some neighborhoods, I rode my bike around my neighborhood and dropped off some brochures. The other thing about him that I like is that he wants to push local control, and in New Hampshire we've certainly learned that that's the way to get rid of as much waste as possible. Because if you're right close to it, you see it, and if you're not there, how can you hope to grasp...
...very tough state and we came in here far behind Steve Forbes and Bob Dole," Buchanan said Friday. With polls showing Dole holding on to a narrow lead over Buchanan and Forbes, Buchanan intensified his attempt to appeal to Arizona's conservative base by trying to push his case as the most anti-abortion GOP candidate. "The right to life is more important to me than the presidency of the United States" he told an Arizona Right to Life meeting. Meanwhile, Dole promised he will slightly temper his attacks on Buchanan. Aides to the Senator say Dole, in response...