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...game of winner-take-all, Alexander must pick his fights so he doesn't spread himself too thin and win nothing at all. In New York and Pennsylvania, he doesn't stand a chance because he's simply not on the ballot. And Dole's team is doing everything it can to keep him strapped down. "The Dole folks are really trying to crank up the Governors to freeze out Lamar," says a veteran G.O.P. campaign strategist. That may not be too difficult: privately, some Governors complain Alexander is a bit too slick for his own good, and they resent...
Buchanan has made it clear he is not about to stand around while party leaders maneuver around him. If anything, many Republican leaders assume Pat won't win but worry that Dole and Alexander will hit too hard at a candidate who has found a willing audience among the very voters the party needs most to carry both the presidential and the congressional elections this fall. Buchanan lost no time reminding the elders of this. In Tucson, Arizona, last Thursday, he stopped just short of declaring war on his party: "I would urge my critics and opponents to stick...
...pleaser. But congressional experts are worried that for government to function during the "off season," the President's power to commit troops and spend money would become enhanced far beyond the checks and balances the Constitution envisions. These uncharted waters seem a high price to pay for reforms that stand little chance of luring the teacher- or farmer-statesmen for whom Alexander nostalgically yearns. What schools or farms, after all, can let people go half the year...
...CAMPAIGN TRAIL BOB DOLE depicts himself as the only man who can save the Grand Old Party from the divisive populism of Pat Buchanan. But Republican elders and lawmakers fear that Dole, the Senate leader and master tactician, is leaving them vulnerable back in Washington, where they stand to lose control of Congress if they don't post some legislative accomplishments--and fast...
...free television exposure as President Clinton's foil on Capitol Hill, and he refuses to delegate more authority to his top deputy, majority whip Trent Lott. Now, though, the pressure on Dole is rising. Having lost the balanced-budget battle and becoming desperate to show voters what they stand for, Republican lawmakers return to Washington this week, after a three-week break, to find a Senate schedule devoid of anything except votes on funding the District of Columbia and the Whitewater investigation. Last week Dole's staff was scrambling to produce a timetable on such pressing matters as the debt...