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Bush's selection of Sen. Dan Quayle (R-Ind.) asa running mate seems to have played itself out,with 57 percent of the students indicating thecontroversial selection of the young conservativedid not affect their choice. Four percent saidQuayle's place on the Republican ticket made themmore likely to vote for Bush, while 39 percentsaid the vice president's choice tipped themtoward Dukakis...
...tightest Senate races is in Florida,where a late-hour poll showed a virtual dead heatbetween Democratic Rep. Buddy MacKay andRepublican Rep. Connie Mack for the seat beingvacated by Democratic Sen. Lawton Chiles...
Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole of Kansas was going to three states during the day in a bid to help endangered GOP candidates for Congress. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) countered for the Democrats by campaigning in Minnesota, where Hubert H. Humphrey III is a Senate race underdog...
...vice presidential candidate Sen. Dan Quayle (R-IN), a foe of abortion, said he had no quarrel with a medical procedure he described as aimed at preventing conception after rape. Asked pointedly whether he would expect a rape victim to bear a child that resulted from such an attack, he said, "Hopefully they would seek medical attention immediately, and under normal medical procedure, life and conception would not even begin...
...Sen. Lloyd] Bentsen were running, he'd get my vote. But since he's not, I'm voting for Bush," a doctor friend of mine told me recently. He wouldn't listen to the argument that voting for Dukakis was the next best thing. Nothing has alarmed him--and, I'm told, doctors across the country--more than the prospect of Dukakis doing for the country what he has done in Massachusetts...