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...announcement speech, Dole identified no fewer than a dozen Buchananesque villains, ranging from the U.N. to affirmative action--both of which Dole had supported in the past. Gramm took aim at half a dozen, including welfare recipients and prisoners. Before he dropped out of the race, California Governor Pete Wilson bet heavily on this year's trifecta of blame: illegal immigrants, affirmative action and repeat criminals (with a call for "three strikes and you're out" legislation). Buchanan, of course, had already put his money on those horses--and others...
...threat. The emotions he stirs are intense, both for him and against him. His negative ratings have consistently been roughly double the percentage of people who support him. Even some political operatives are wary of the risks. Sal Russo, a respected G.O.P. consultant in Sacramento, California, says he advised Pete Wilson to beware the fearmongering. "When you take that negative, finger-pointing path, you polarize your potential support. That means you can get to 50%, but it's hard to get much higher," Russo argues. "I believe it's much easier to get people revved up with a shining city...
Voter-rich California provided good news to two major players in the 1996 presidential election. Republican Senator Bob Dole obtained the key endorsement of Governor Pete Wilson, who only recently dropped out of the G.O.P. race. And Ross Perot's operatives handed over the signatures of some 100,000 Californians to state election officials-more than enough, if the names check out, to place his new independent party on the state ballot...
...session in our Washington bureau, we invited some mainstream economists, of course, including David Wyss of DRI/McGraw Hill and Allen Sinai of Lehman Brothers Global Economics. But we also added a U.S. Senator (Pete Domenici), one of Clinton's top economic advisers (Laura D'Andrea Tyson), a Cabinet member (Labor Secretary Robert Reich), a specialist on minority economics (Margaret Simms of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies), a conservative economist (Stephen Moore from the Cato Institute) and a New Democrat (Rob Shapiro of the Progressive Policy Institute...
...PETE BEST The Beatle who got fired appears on a new Fab Four album with pre-Ringo cuts...