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WASHINGTON, D.C.: With a third of the delegates needed to win the Republican nomination, Bob Dole is looking ahead to the fall campaign. At a waterfront rally in Tampa, Dole told supporters "Let me say as the front-runner and maybe the presumptive nominee . . . I think it's time now to bring our party together and start to focus on our real political target, Bill Clinton." With no one claiming the mantle of outsider, a race between Clinton and Dole means that the election is likely to be fought in Washington. For Dole, Congress will provide one way stake...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Lamar Alexander and Senator Richard Lugar bowed out of the GOP presidential race, throwing their support behind front- runner Bob Dole. Party leaders had urged the two to drop out of the race in order to help Dole wrap up the nomination quickly. In a news conference announcing his withdrawal, Alexander admitted he was wrong for criticizing Dole as a Washington insider who had no ideas. He said he dropped out when he realized most Republicans wanted Dole to be the candidate to run against President Clinton. "Sen. Dole is the best choice in the Republican race," Alexander...
...kind of chaos the party meant to stamp out. By any traditional reckoning, it was going to be over by the end of March, when 66% of the delegates are technically chosen. The tight schedule of 29 states in five weeks was designed to slingshot an early front runner into inevitability. Now it may not even save one from ignominy. Dole alone has raised the money for the ads and traveling necessary in a multifront war. He has $6.4 million cash on hand (although he is bumping up against the primary season's legal spending limit); Buchanan and Alexander have...
...Senate Majority Leader--still considered the front-runner by most analysts--won consolation victories Tuesday in less significant primaries in North and South Dakota...
Dole, who Caesar called "a weak front-runner," has already guaranteed victory in South Carolina's crucial primary Saturday...