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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
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lie wJidaDiVall, a Republican poll-
Idothsed outside Washington in
i,Va. "My sense is there are
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fro ve win in New York would
me im into that pack.”
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fronMessinger to gain a second,
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|opt< he said Iasi week.
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I mo lesday, in a city with a 5-1 De-
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dmportant. That becomes a
[ssiciignificant Republican win,”
fur :ii Rath, a member of the Re
uben National Committee from
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body 2000, supporters mention
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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.
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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.”
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