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Political analysts said this year has seen the largest media and commercial attention in Iowa and they expect the caucus turnout will be high...
...estimated 1.6 million voters who will participate in the caucus, attendance will be decisive in the results of the straw poll. A low turnout will help Dukakis, who has maintained fairly constant support, while a large turnout will hurt him, because a surge of enthusiatic voters could come to the polls in support of Gephardt, Murphy said...
Similarly, a low turnout will help Robertson, whose `zealous' constituents will come to the polls under any circumstances, while a large turnout will hurt him by bringing support for all the candidates, Murphy said...
...volatile Democratic contest, in particular, is straight out of an antacid commercial. No candidate has much margin for error: one gaffe, one stumble, one strategic miscue could spell the difference between heartburn and heartthrob. With a tightly bunched field and estimates of turnout as low as 90,000 Democrats, the support of a few thousand caucus attendees may be all that separates the victor from also-ran status. The latest political tout sheets label Richard Gephardt as the freckle-faced favorite; he put on last week's most elaborately choreographed media event, importing 42 House colleagues to stand with...
...Unless something happens to shake the process and skew turnout, George Bush is our nominee. It's going to be real difficult for Bob Dole to overcome some of these numbers." That statement, by an uncommitted Republican strategist in last week's Washington Post, is a common appraisal of how the 1988 presidential election has unfolded...