The Battalion .Jay • November 3, 1997 OLITICS tfC win laid boost jiliani’s iture plans |anc hi at fv'sa) 1 I qu 5 YORK (AP) — Election Day heend of one campaign for Rudolph Giuliani — and 'g i m peivi [he beginning of another. [Republican mayor is heavily iltowin re-election Tdesday, inockout victory here in one of lion's Democratic strongholds ^[[hrusthim into his party’s na- ipotlight. Already, there’s spec ks taabout his political future. sa^sface it: Republicans aren't bntreedto win in New York City f ” lie wJidaDiVall, a Republican poll- Idothsed outside Washington in i,Va. "My sense is there are 111 tll20or25 players who are go- Stastalked about in terms of the I it al sweepstakes, and a very fro ve win in New York would me im into that pack.” Jianidiscourages talk about his |e sebeyond Election Day, when |foui 3>esthe will trounce Democ- fronMessinger to gain a second, i d n rtenn in one of the most lop- Tv clones by a Republican in city )alh‘Ican’t rule out options in the |opt< he said Iasi week. | hoMif he carries 60 percent of the I mo lesday, in a city with a 5-1 De- /herricregistration edge, “he be- dmportant. That becomes a [ssiciignificant Republican win,” fur :ii Rath, a member of the Re uben National Committee from lexceiampshire. "I le sort (>1 caL ecutor has gained flattering rst ion over the past couple of “V New York’s plunging crime ^11 arid burnished image. Butsides the possibility of a jidic louse or vice presidential body 2000, supporters mention th tlai as an attractive prospect aewideraces, such as the U.S. th tl seat held by Democrat dor P. Moynihan, which will be beau led that year. Clinton reaches out to candidates Democrats get last-minute help from president to make up for financial gap EDISON, N.J. (AP) — Three days before a handful of closely watched off-year elections, Presi dent Clinton hit the campaign stump Sunday to help Democrats in New York and New Jersey who have seen little or no financial help from the debt-choked na tional party. V ■ 1 RLE PHOTO/Associated Press President Bill Clinton began rally ing support Sunday for Democrats in New York and New Jersey. Absent competitive ad cam paigns, the underdog Democrats were counting on presidential star power, vilification of the Republi cans and voter turnout to carry them in Tuesday’s elections. “Make sure you show up, and drag three or four of your friends along,” the president told about 1,500 people who braved a gray, damp day to see Clinton and con gressional candidate Eric Vitaliano in Staten Island, N.Y. Vitaliano’s race, gubernatorial contests in New Jersey and Vir ginia, and the long-shot bid of De mocrat Ruth Messinger to unseat New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani — each could give the Democratic Party a huge political boost going into the 1998 midterm election season and its bid to reclaim con trol of Congress. “You can send a signal to the rest of the country about the di rection that we have to take,” Clinton told voters in New Jersey, where Jim McGreevey is fighting to topple Republican incumbent Christine Todd Whitman. But even as Clinton cam paigned Sunday after a $3 mil lion fund-raising weekend re treat in Florida for the Democra tic National Committee, the par ty’s lingering $15 million debt from 1996 has forced Democrats into decidedly underdog roles in this year’s races. “I ain’t got no money,” was the refrain of one blues song played before Clinton and McGreevey took the stage Sunday. What the party has not been able to do financially, it has tried to make up for with personal appear ances by its top stars. In New Jersey, perhaps the De mocrats’ most winnable of the four races, Clinton and his wife, Hillary, and Vice President Al Gore and his wife, Tipper, have all campaigned for McGreevey. His contest remains fairly competitive, but in Vitaliano’s race and in the Virginia guber natorial bid of Democrat Don Beyer, previously tight races opened considerably in favor of GOP candidates in recent weeks after the Republican National Committee poured millions of dollars into ads Democrats could not match. Dole urges GOP to consider woman candidate WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican Party should consider putting a woman on its 2000 ticket as a way of closing the gender gap, former presidential candidate Bob Dole said Sunday. He volunteered his wife Elizabeth as one of the best possible candidates. Dole, who was defeated by President Clinton in his run for the White House in 1996, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “I’ve still got one chance to get there, if Eliz abeth runs.” “She hasn’t asked me, but 1 think she is certainly qualified,” Dole said of his wife, who has served as sec retary of the Labor and Transportation departments and currently heads the American Red Cross. “And if we are going to close the gender gap in the Republican Party, we ought to think about a woman on the ticket in the year 2000.” Dole said there are other qualified Republican women but that his wife “would be a very serious candidate.” Political polls show that while men generally support the Republican Party over the Democrats by about 10 percentage points, women back the Democratic Party by about the same margin. Polls have also shown Re- Dole publican voters list Mrs. Dole, along with Colin Powell and Jack Kemp, as among their favorite choices to head the 2000 ticket. Dole said he had joked to his wife that “all I wanted was a car and a dri ver if she gets elected, and a beeper. In case somebody leaves me behind, I want to be able to phone in.” Dole also revealed that shortly before the 1996 election, indepen dent candidate Ross Perot indicated he would throw his support behind Dole, but within hours changed his mind. “He told me on the phone, that I think we can work this out... and I called him back about three hours lat er, he had a totally different attitude, he had changed his mind completely.” “I think he probably cost us one state maybe, maybe a couple of others, so it did make a difference because as we looked at it about seven out of 10 votes that Perot got would have gone to us, states like Ken tucky and one or two others could have gone to us.” AS SEEN ON CBS NEWS “4» HOURS DRIVE YOURSELF & SAVE as low as. SOUTH PADRE ISLAND • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • PANAMA CITY. BEACH BAYTON A. 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