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Introduced as the standard-bearer of the Republican "soft side,'' Elizabeth Dole, president of the American Red Cross, delivered a late-night keynote address that drew several ovations and banquet table talk of a possible presidential race in 2000.GOP Women Look to Narrow Gender Gap By Ron Fournier, AP Political Writer, Wednesday, April 29, 1998; 10:00 p.m. EDT

This country, which has come so far, has lost so much, she said in a lyrical speech about the problems and hope for America. Our sense of limitless possibility has run into a stone wall of crime, violence, drugs, illegitimacy and incivility and a deep, unsettling fear that the nation given to us by our founders -- given to us by our parents -- is a much better place than the America we´e prepared to turn over to our children.

A star is born, exclaimed Judith Stanley of Redbank, N.J.  The gender gap, which first emerged in the 1980s, was a huge factor in 1996 when President Clinton's 17-point advantage with women gave him his victory over Dole, who had beat the president among men by 1 percentage point. Republican pollster Linda DiVall told the forum that woman favor Democrats by a 48-38 margin for November's midterm elections, while men back Republicans 48-37.

 

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There was a lot of talk about that — Dole again, Elizabeth Dole, at the top of the ticket," said Bill Bennett, co-founder of the Empower America think tank that hosted the Doles at one of their first post election outings.

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 "People need to see that the elections are about them—their jobs, their health care, their retirement, their children's education, their future," Becky Cain, president of the League of Women Voters, said when that study was released in May 1996. (Analyzing the gender gap.)

So who should, or would, run? For the Republicans, Elizabeth Dole's name always comes up first. She has a golden resume

Independent pollster John Zogby has a hunch that one or both parties may put a woman on the ticket in 2000. Last November, he polled a mock presidential race pitting a GOP ticket of Texas Gov. George W. Bush and Elizabeth Dole against Vice President Gore and Senator Feinstein. Bush-Dole got 42.5 percent vs. 32.5 percent for Gore- Feinstein. - But if a dynamic candidate, who happens to be a woman,   bursts onto the scene - say, a female version of Colin Powell or an American Margaret Thatcher -  there's no reason she couldn't go for the presidency, 

Elizabeth Dole soars in poll

Summary: In the wake of her speech on the GOP convention floor, Elizabeth Dole's stock as a political asset has jumped - pushing her ahead of Hillary Rodham Clinton's poll standings.

Voters in poll prefer Dole over Clinton as first lady Deja News

Among men, Bob Dole gets 49 percent and Elizabeth Dole gets 48 percent, while Bill Clinton gets 42 percent and Hillary Clinton gets 28 percent. Among female respondents, Bill Clinton gets 56 percent and Hillary gets 43 percent, while Bob Dole gets 37 percent and Elizabeth gets 38 percent.

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She was winging it, without text or TelePrompTer, and convention planners gave her a 20-minute block of prime time to warm up the delegates before her husband's name was placed in nomination. It would have been nearly unthinkable for Bob Dole, so reserved, so prone to unscripted gaffes, to attempt the same before a national television audience.

In the wake of her speech on the GOP convention floor, Elizabeth Dole's stock as a political asset has jumped - pushing her ahead of Hillary Rodham Clinton's poll standings. More than half of those polled - 58%

In the wake of her speech on the GOP convention floor, Elizabeth Dole's stock as a political asset has jumped - pushing her ahead of Hillary Rodham Clinton's poll standings.

More than half of those polled - 58% - gave Elizabeth Dole a favorable rating. That's a 7 point increase from early August.

Only 18% rated her unfavorably in the new USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup poll taken after the Republican convention.

By comparison, 48% of voters surveyed rated first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton unfavorably.

Slightly less than half of those polled - 47% - gave the first lady a favorable rating. http://167.8.29.19/elect/eq/eq109.htm

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