Word: caucus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Just a month ago, he lost New Hampshire to conservative columnist Patrick S. Buchanan and went on to lose three of the first five primaries. But, with Wisconsin still up in the air yesterday, he had piled up a 21-0 primary record since, and added a couple of caucus victories to boot. "Part of our strategy, of course, early on was to lose New Hampshire," Dole joked...
...torturing the Dole team, it has itself to blame. Reed and Pat's sister Bay Buchanan were in near cahoots for months trying to force Phil Gramm out of the race. In an astonishing string of secret deals, Reed released dozens of pro-Dole votes in the Alaska caucuses to ensure that Buchanan beat Forbes there; he gave his O.K. when top Louisiana Republicans asked about backing Buchanan in the caucus fight with Gramm; and he handed over thousands of names and addresses to Buchanan in Louisiana (and 12,000 names in Iowa) to help him strike deep in Gramm...
Dole was defeating Patrick J. Buchanan and Malcolm S. "Steve" Forbes by more than 2-to-1 margins in Florida, Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma and Mississippi. The Senate majority leader also was handily beating Buchanan in Louisiana, where Buchanan's caucus victory in February triggered a surge of support for the conservative commentator. Dole predicted Oregon would deliver him a seven-state "Super Tuesday" sweep and leave him with roughly three-quarters of the delegates needed to clinch the nomination...
...caucus isn't a community into which we come out," Oppenheimer says...
...past, the caucus has sponsored several programs aimed at undergraduates, including a mentorship program, but it has since been eliminated...