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Article: Rivals gear up for run at Dole Matching funds to finance ads
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 31, 1995
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WASHINGTON -- The Republican nomination for president is likely
to be locked up in the first dozen weeks of 1996. Now, as Bob Dole
heads into the New Hampshire primary with a large lead, the question
is whether his rivals, pumping money into a barrage of anti-Dole ads,
can undo the deep imprint of 1995.
After all, 1995 was the year when three of Dole's toughest
potential opponents stepped aside: California Gov. Pete Wilson, who
dropped out, and retired Gen. Colin Powell and House Speaker Newt
Gingrich, who decided not to run. Moreover, Dole's strategy to
prevent one of the remaining candidates to emerge as the top
challenger so far has succeeded.
But it's not over. A pesky pack of Dole ...