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...Another tactic is to subtly encourage outside groups to spend on Dole's behalf. Dole's allies tried this in Iowa and New Hampshire, where a coalition of home builders and Realtors launched ads against the Forbes-style flat tax. That strategy could help enormously in California. Wilson is calling Dole strategist Don Sipple twice a day with hard-hitting ways to break what Sipple pointedly calls Forbes' "glass jaw" in California on issues like immigration. Here the campaign team has to be careful; they are supposed to keep their distance from these "independent" efforts. But they also have...
Young said this tactic had been used a few years earlier with some success. The committee seemed receptive to the idea...
This revelation to the council of my personal life as an indictment of the trustworthiness of my opinions has not been applied to any of the male executive board members, many of whom are in similar situations. This absence of action only highlights the fact that this tactic was a gender-based weapon used for political reasons in a disagreement...
Dole's opponents are outraged. Buchanan confronted Dole about the tactic, called push polling, during the debate last week in Manchester. What's more, many voters who received the calls are upset. "It's sleazy and makes me mad," says Andrew Schwaegler, 29, a tree farmer in Orford who claims he got four calls that included assertions about Steve Forbes' positions on gays in the military and abortion...
SHELLEY SCARNEY BUCHANAN The public knows virtually nothing about her--hey, that tactic has worked before...