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Other major losses to injury were senior 800-meter runner Ben Bowen and junior distance runner Killian Lonergan...
...adds that to a moral conservatism that brought him a good many of the Christian conservative voters in Iowa, despite the support for Bob Dole of the state's Christian Coalition leader. One day after Buchanan took second place there, it was plain he had the front runner spooked. In a speech to the New Hampshire legislature, Dole, as steadfast an example of Republican orthodoxy as the party has ever produced, was suddenly Woody Guthrie. "Corporate profits are setting records and so are corporate layoffs,'' he said. "The real average hourly wage is 5% lower than it was a decade...
...problem for Bob Dole, the wounded front runner, was that he was unable to be Pat Buchanan and unwilling to be himself. Lamar Alexander, trying to convince voters he was more than the "least worse" choice, had to roll out a refreshened agenda even if its contents, such as the abolition of food stamps, might come back to haunt him. Steve Forbes had to decide whether to admit he had been running an ugly race, cage his pit bulls and run on his strengths instead of his enemies' weaknesses. And Pat Buchanan, who reinvents Republicanism when he offers dispirited workers...
...before he could take on the President he needed to dethrone the front runner. And so he began to drape the cobwebs on his rival. "I want to say this carefully," he said. "You won't hear me say one word of disrespect for Bob Dole. I don't feel that way and I won't say it. But a lot of people are wishing someone would go to Bob Dole and say, 'It's time to move...
That's just what Alexander finally did last week, and just in time, surging to a surprising third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and a top-three position in polling just before the New Hampshire primary. With most Republicans rejecting Iowa runner-up Pat Buchanan as too extreme and divisive, Alexander managed to position himself as the electable alternative to front runner Bob Dole--the place where all the other candidates, perhaps including Dole, would like...