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Article: Salt Lake Steeler.(Orrin Hatch's presidential campaign)
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- National Review
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- August 9, 1999
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Orrin Hatch enters the fray.
Concord, N.H.
He's late, but he's in: Orrin Hatch is running for president. When he announced on July 1, he was only $36 million behind-that's the amount George W. Bush had raised. Said Hatch to the press, "I believe in miracles-and it will take one to elect me."
Why so late, in this age of the grossly early campaign? It took him a while to make up his mind. His family is opposed-not hostile, but cautious. He also believes that the $36 Million Man can't win the general-W. is flat-out "unelectable," says Hatch, quickly softening that to a "probably unelectable." Clearly, the longtime Utah senator regards Bush as a ...