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...major parties. Moreover, the poll shows that if Powell were the Republican nominee, he would edge Clinton by a few percentage points. In the Republican field, Powell is preferred by 22% of G.O.P.-leaning voters, second to Dole's 43% and well ahead of Pat Buchanan and Phil Gramm, each of whom attract only 6%. If Powell were Dole's vice-presidential choice, their ticket would beat Clinton and Al Gore, while a face-off between just Clinton and Dole shows Clinton ahead...
PATRICK BUCHANAN WAS ASKED THE other day how much money he had raised so far in his second quest for the Republican presidential nomination. Knowing that Bob Dole and Phil Gramm will each report totals close to $12 million this week, Buchanan replied, "Well, I think we've raised somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 million." Standing near by, his campaign chairman (and kid sister) Bay snapped, "We passed $2 million." Hearing that, the candidate brightened and said, "We passed $2 million? It's $2 million and 37 cents...
...opening skirmish in what California Republican Bob Dornan promises will be Congress's "summer of life." Though apparently supported by a majority in the Senate, Foster was ultimately dragged under by the politics of the presidential campaign. Majority leader Bob Dole, fending off a play by rival Phil Gramm to curry favor with the right by staging a filibuster, deftly engineered a procedural vote under which Foster's supporters would have needed 60 votes even to debate the nomination; they fell three short, thus rejecting the nominee and robbing Gramm of all but a few minutes in the spotlight...
...combination of abortion politics and presidential aspirations, the nomination of Dr. Henry Foster for Surgeon General died on the Senate floor. Democrats were unable to muster the 60 votes required to force a vote on the nomination, which backers said Foster would have won. Presidential aspirants Bob Dole and Phil Gramm vied to take credit for scuttling the nomination, which became particularly controversial after Foster offered differing accounts of how many abortions he had performed. President Clinton said the vote sent the "chilling message" that the G.O.P. had aligned itself with antiabortion "extremists." As for Foster, he said...
Cited by John Rawls as one of the worst examples of constitutional jurisprudence in the 20th century, Buckley overturned federal limitations on campaign finance reform and permanently impaired poorer individuals' right to equal access in the political arena. As Phil Gramm and his best friend in politics, `easy money,' start gearing up for the New Hampshire primary, it's not hard to see the direction Buckley set for American politics in the late 20th century...