Word: support
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...Keyes. "Just a joke," Keyes explains. But he says most conservatives forgive him for his Harvard background rather than embrace him for it. And while he comes back once in a while to visit classes and speak, Harvard, needless to say, has not offered much of a student support base...
...nomination in 1996, and again this year. While Keyes' strong showing in Iowa drew attention to his campaign, this man will not be your next president. His only ventures into electoral politics have been losses--rather dramatic ones in fact. And if his fire and brimstone rhetoric earns the support of some ultra-conservatives within the Republican Party, it isn't a big draw for mainstream voters. "Frankly, I wouldn't have expected him to be running for president. I've been very surprised," says Kirkpatrick, who helped introduce him to Maryland Republicans before his Senate attempts. "He doesn...
...enlisting in the army. He contemplated a career in opera. Even after he went for politics, friends say they expected him to be a thinktank policy guru or a professor of political science--a job Keyes says he may eventually consider--rather than a presidential sideshow. Die-hard Keyes supporters--as such people always do--have an intricate, domino theory detailing a Keyes win: Bauer, Hatch and Forbes will drop out, and their supporters will turn to Keyes to form a solid conservative block. Then, once Bush's supporters see a conservative candidate with a substantial following, they'll question...
Galbraith has remained vocal and active in his later years. Last November, he gave a speech sponsored by the College Democrats. Also in November, he lent his support to a Harvard student's petition to remove a U.S. naval base from the Puerto Rican island of Vieques...
...results of the New Hampshire primary were more than enough to rattle their hold on the reins. Sen. John S. McCain (R-Ariz.) finished ahead of Bush with a solid 19 percentage point victory. Although New Hampshire has a particular affinity for insurgent candidates, McCain drew broad-based support from Independent and Republican voters alike. For Bush, who waltzed into New Hampshire expecting to win, the defeat signifies that he will need more than deep pockets and a famous name to secure the Republican nomination...