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...point is that big money follows the front-runner. Bill Clinton's huge war chest proves that. As G.W. Dumhoff documented in The Powers That Be (1978), it doesn't matter whether the candidate is a Democrat or a Republican--fat cats want a stake in the winner. In fact, a 1972 study showed that 36 percent of contributors who gave $10,000 and up contributed to candidates of both political parties...
Approximately 30 percent of all studentssurveyed--Independents as well as Democrats andRepublicans--expressed support for Tsongas. Bushwas runner-up on campus with 25.7 percent of theoverall vote...
Democratic and Republican candidates raced around the South yesterday in one last round of intra-party squabbling, with Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, the Democratic front-runner, under attack and with President Bush predicting a sweep of GOP Super Tuesday contests...
Those ads will get their biggest test this week. Though he is the ostensible front runner, Clinton has yet to win a primary or caucus. Now the Governor of Arkansas is playing in his home region, where many of the primaries through March 10 will take place. Because Clinton must score decisively in the area, he was spending twice as much as Tsongas last week in Georgia...
...Tiger's challenge will be led by high jumper lay Richards, who has already qualified for the NCAA championships with 73" clearance and middle distance runner Omar Simmons...