Can You Really Buy A Caucus
Does Steve Forbes have what George Bush in Iowa once called “The Big Mo”? Surveys in Arizona (Feb. 27 primary) show him tied with Dole there, and he’s making a stealthy midwinter trip to Alaska where he hopes to turn the state’s invisible Jan. 26-29 caucuses into a small springboard. In Iowa–where his TV attack ads appear as many as six or seven times a night-he’s solidly in second place for now, and his private polls show him pulling within 10 percent of Dole: His flat tax is hot, his brainy awkwardness is hip and his complete lack of political qualifications uniquely qualifies him for the job....