Can Bob Doles campaign be saved?
A week is a long time in politics, the cliche goes, and that may be one of the few verities getting Bob Dole through these rather grim days. Despite attempts of some inside-the-Beltway pundits, like Newsweek’s Joe Klein, to shape the November election as one between Dole the heroic adult vs. Clinton the promiscuous child, voters do not seem to be buying. Twenty points behind the President in the polls, facing a yawning gender chasm with women voters, continually outfoxed in legislative maneuvering by Democrats and the White House, Dole’s “one last mission” is shaping up as a defeat of colossal proportions. We asked a conservative insider and two of the shrewder political analysts if things were really that bad for the long-time Senate Majority Leader. In a word, the answer seems to be “yes.” “The campaign is obviously in trouble. Dole has major, major problems. Doing something that no candidate has pulled off before in this century — running for President from a senior leadership post
