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Republicans, on the other hand, said that Kemp proved his worth as a strong running mate for GOP nominee Robert J. Dole...
...seemed Kemp's differences with Dole were pointed out fairly frequently by Vice President Gore, and it certainly seemed to be one of the plans of the Clinton-Gore campaign team to do so rather than to focus solely on the issues at hand," Dickerson said. "But overall, that did not become a problem, and it was a very well-run debate...
...introduce myself expecting to be laughed at, but he is respectful and sincere. His name is Dave, he's 15, from Somerville. I ask him about politics and his answers are coherent but indifferent. Trying to tease something out of him, I lay out a scenario: Dole wants to crack down on marijuana, making it harder to get and more risky to possess. Clinton, on the other hand, sounds like he's going to do his damnedest to take cigarettes out of the hands of kids. I tell Dave people like him need to pick their poison, so to speak...
...Dave shrugs off the question. "I stay away from drugs," he says, and for a moment I'm stunned by the stupidity of my assumption. I recover to ask him if that means he favors Dole but he's still unmoved. "I don't buy cigarettes," he explains, "I just bum 'em off friends. I'm trying to cut down, actually." He shakes his head at the ground, tossing his wild hair back and forth. "I've got to run track in the spring...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Have President Clinton and GOP candidate Bob Dole been fudging federal campaign finance laws? Common Cause, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group called Wednesday for an independent investigation, claiming both the Republican and Democratic campaigns have spent millions of dollars raised for general "party building" improperly on TV ads directly endorsing the candidates. "Clearly, there is massive spending on both sides, which goes to the edge of legality, and may have crossed over," says TIME's Jeffrey Birnbaum. "Something certainly will be done about campaign finance, either in the courts or in the legislature. But although Bob Dole touched...