Word: simonizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Electronic gadgetry is turning campaign operations into models of efficiency. The staff of Illinois Democrat Paul Simon, for example, distributes the candidate's daily schedules to reporters not by messenger but by facsimile machine, which can transmit a typewritten page over telephone lines in 30 seconds or less. The personal assistants of Tennessee Democrat Albert Gore and Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt are never far from their laptop computers, which they plug into telephone jacks at least once a day to exchange missives with far-flung operatives or to read the latest word from their Washington offices. When a blizzard last...
About the only plausible defense for the spending limits is that they buttress long-shot candidates. "It's sort of like the speed limit," says Pat Mitchell, Paul Simon's Iowa coordinator. "It keeps the carnage down." Most campaign spending experts, such as Herbert Alexander of the University of Southern California, would like to see the state caps eliminated. "They're ridiculously low," he says, "and they lead to subterfuge." All too often, in fact, the result is an amoral minuet in which the end (the White House) justifies all sorts of quasi-legal chicanery. "There is retail chiseling, like...
DESCRIPTION: Cash on hand as of January 1, 1988, and contributions made in 1987 to presidential candidates George Bush, Pat Robertson, Robert Dole, Michael Dukakis, Jack Kemp, Pierre du Pont, Richard Gephardt, Paul Simon, Albert Gore, Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson, Bruce Babbitt and Alexander Haig...
...Noam S. Cohen '89 Mark M. Colodny '89 Laurie M. Grossman '89 Benjamin R. Miller '89 Spencer S. Hsu '90 Editorial Editors: David J. Barron '89 Laurie M. Grossman '89 Features Editors: Julie L. Belcove '89 Noam S. Cohen '89 Sport Editors: Mark T. Brazaitis '89 Geoffrey H. Simon '88 Julio R. Varela '90 Photo Editor: Hector I. Osario '89 Business Editor: Kenneth M. Richman '90 Copy Editor: Steven J.S. Glick...
...Simon won in Iowa, the race may have become the two-man contest--between him and Dukakis--that it promised to be before Hart's return in the fall. Enjoying a much stronger organization in New Hampshire than Gephardt, Simon looks to do well in next week's primary. An Iowa victory and the attendant media exposure would have enabled him to run an even stronger challenge in New Hampshire, where a narrow loss to Dukakis would be a triumph. Coupled with an Iowa win, this would have provided Simon with front-runner status going into Super Tuesday...