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...calls Dole and Gramm "leap-year conservatives" who shuttle to the right every four years but are squeamish moderates at heart. So this is the Buchanan Dilemma: Will red-meat conservatives who love Pat continue to support him right through the convention, even at the risk of helping re-elect a President they revile; or will they make a pragmatic decision to fall back and support the candidate with the best chance of winning...
...know why they're saying so little of value, of course. They can't quite figure the political benefits of saying more. "There's lots of talk about how this helps Republicans," says a Dole campaign aide. "Some say it'll work for us by osmosis. Some are talking about finding code words and code events, like having Ron Goldman's father speak for the victims of violence at the G.O.P. convention." But the Dole adviser, who worked for George Bush in 1992, remembers how wrong they were back then. "We thought Rodney King would re-elect Bush," he says...
...charitable activities such as distributing Christmas baskets and turkeys in poor neighborhoods. But bank records obtained by the state election commission show that since 1988, checks drawn on the account of the Sharpe James Civic Association were used to funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Committee to Re-elect Sharpe James...
That view seems shortsighted for two reasons. First, the Democratic base alone won't re-elect Clinton, and the swing voters he most needs disdain old- fashioned liberal solutions like raising the minimum wage. Second, the President's real problem involves a perceived lack of resolution and stamina. If Clinton lets his proposed hike die quietly and holds instead to his original diagnoses and prescriptions (which were right then and are right now), he might come across more like a President than a perpetual candidate--and possibly get the four more years he covets...
When students asked what the losses would have on chances for re-election, "Now that the GOP is in office, they will look like the of . This will re-elect...