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uar V 12,151 iday • February 12, 1996 Nation Page 5 • The Battalion ^Uramm’s White House future inges largely on Iowa outcome ^ In [he Texas senator is [)king for a big win in day's caucus. r ASHINGTON (AP) — Fifty a ago, on a gusty day in Col- Station, Texas, Phil Gramm before family, friends and a iterous audience and formally lared his candidacy for the te House. lince then, the Texas Republi- has spent thousands of hours ■iftscrossing the country from iska to Florida and points in ween, with frequent forays jlowa and New Hampshire. J He has shaken thousands of ids, made hundreds of fund- ^®lsing pitches, eaten innumer- e bland banquet meals and re- ited his standard stump speech Bin and again and again. in any campaign at the top tig of American politics, the ef- is a mind-numbing, physical- grueling test of endurance in- spersed with a handful of imng moments. For Gramm, tonight’s Iowa igkriwan ATTALION events. J caucus is shaping up as the cru cial moment above all others that have unfurled to date. Iowa will mark the moment of rebirth for a slumping campaign dogged by a couple of embarrass ing setbacks. Or it will deal an all-but-fatal blow to Gramm’s White House hopes, sending him back to Texas to campaign for a third six-year term in the Senate. Gramm, himself, is not down playing Iowa’s challenge. “I think it is clear that if I don’t get first, second, or third, that is going to knock me out of the race,” he acknowledged Wednesday, a day after a stunning loss to Pat Buchanan in Louisiana’s caucus. In a restaurant a day later, with a reporter watching on, Gramm explained to his question ing wife why a poor showing in Iowa would mean the end of the road for his campaign. “The reason is the momentum involved, the ability to raise mon ey, a combination of all those things,” he said. His momentum was stalled during a punishing 24-hour peri od last week. Gramm had to con tend with both a loss in a made- to-order Louisiana beauty pageant where he long had promised victory — and a rash of criticism in agriculturally inclined Iowa for missing a key Senate farm bill vote. Bruised — but un bowed — Gramm shrugged off the mis steps and hit the pre- diction that he would emerge from Iowa in good shape. The results will not be known until late into tonight, when Iowa’s caucus-goers will have spoken. Well aware of Gramm’s repu tation as a tireless campaigner and prodigious fund-raiser, the Democrats vying to take him on in the Senate race are hopeful he stays in the presidential race as long as possible. “Texas Democrats hope that Sen. Gramm continues his quixot ic campaign until he uses up all his time, energy and money,” Texas Democratic Party spokes woman Anne Marie Kilday said last week. "I think it is clear that if I don't get first, second, or third, that is going to knock me out of the race." — Sen. Phil Gramm GOP candidate But Democrats contend that Gramm’s dual candidacies, per mitted under Texas’ “LBJ Law,” anger voters and hand Democrats an opening to suggest that he is ignoring Texas. They also point to recent polls which show declines in Gramm’s base support in Texas — albeit with the senator retaining a com manding lead over his potential Democratic opponents. OP candidates court caucus voters s of the Mardi Polls suggest one-out-of five epublicans are undecided. SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — On the eve of le Iowa caucuses, GOP candidates hop- otched the state Sunday, courting the ieout-of-five Republicans that polls sug- Ststare undecided. With Bob Dole’s lead appearing to stabi- ze, the real battle formed around who ould be second. the rivals moved from town meetings id rallies to TV talk shows, publishing heir eve Forbes emerged as everyone else’s fa- brite target. “Forbes is falling, despite his massive ount of negative ads,” asserted former lenTiessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, who hoped to benefit from any Forbes decline. ( Texas Sfen. Phil Gramm, t railing in the iigita but insisting he not be counted iit, ridiculed Forbes for complaining about aonymous phone calls against him: “He can dish it out but he can’t take it.” Dole tried to take the high road, declin ing to criticize Forbes directly. But his campaign continued to air ads on Sunday calling the publisher “untested ... and more lib eral than you think.” The Senate majority leader said he was content with polls showing him with a lead in the high 20s, far behind the 37 percent he finished with in 1988, when there were more can didates in the race. “I want to finish first. We hope it’s a strong first,” he said during a vis it to a Des Moines diner. “And somebody else will finish second and then we’ll go on to New Hampshire where somebody will finish second,” Dole said Despite personal appearances, the pre-cau cus day was mostly fought over the airwaves — both on live television interview shows and with a blizzard of radio and TV advertising. A poll by the Des Moines Sunday Regis ter showed that 46 percent of likely GOP caucus goers now view Forbes in generally unfavorable terms — an increase in 20 points since the question was first asked in a poll published Dec. 3. Alexander, interviewed on ABC’s “This Week with David Brinkley,” said he feels he is gaining ground after actively courting lowans for two years. “By the time we get out of New Hamp shire, there will be two candidates who real ly have a chance to be nominated and elect ed. And one will be Senator Dole and the other will be me,’ Alexander asserted. Buchanan, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” in sisted momentum is with him, not the others. “If my Republican colleagues do not ad dress the issue of economic insecurity in the middle class and declining wages among working people, they are going to lose the country. I can bring it back,” Buchanan said. “The Hitch Is Coming!” The Hitch Is Coming!’’ k Ye ES, Country’s Reminisce Hitch is coming to College Station on Friday, Feb. 16. The champion Belgians will be headquartered at the Freeman Arena on FM 2818. The hitch will be accompanied by a “bookmobile” offering cook books and other Reiman Publications books at close-out prices from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Friday. So stop by to see this famous hitch that walked 3,800 miles across America...and do a little “bargain shopping” at the same time. 4.0 & Go Tutoring 700 E. 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