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Dole to Set Presidential Committee By David S. Broder Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, March 5, 1999; Page A20 The USA Today/CNN/Gallup poll taken last month and reported in yesterday's editions of the newspaper said Dole matched Bush with an 88 percent favorable rating among Republicans and led him, 75 percent to 69 percent, in favorability among all voters.
"Not only is Elizabeth Dole a viable candidate for president," DiVall said yesterday, "but there is clearly a historic opportunity here to draw women into the party." Despite suggestions that Dole's realistic target is the vice presidency, DiVall said, "Her goal is the presidency. No one on her team is looking at settling for No. 2."
Elizabeth Dole plans Valley visit By Mike McCloy The Arizona Republic March 9, 1999
Elizabeth Dole will visit the Valley on Thursday, a day after she launches an exploratory campaign for president in Iowa.
Reginald M. Ballantyne III, president of Phoenix Memorial Health System, will join former Attorney General Grant Woods in hosting Dole and about 100 small-business people at Ballantyne's Paradise Valley home.
Gore discounts poll favoring Bush, Dole Mar. 10, 1999 | 4:20 a.m. a poll of 1,203 adults released last month by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press showed 45 percent of registered voters surveyed said there was no chance they would vote for him. In that same poll, more than two-thirds said there was at least a chance they would vote for Bush, and nearly that many said they could vote for Mrs.Dole, the former American Red Cross chief and wife of 1996 GOP nominee Bob Dole. AP-CS-03-10-99 0508EST
Dole forms group for 2000 race By Mike Glover / Associated Press
Dole is scheduled to visit Des Moines today to announce that she's forming her exploratory committee, joining Texas Gov. George W. Bush as the second big-name Republican to take that step in recent days. The two are dominating early polling for what is shaping up as a large GOP field.
Dole explains first, formal step to 2000 presidential run in 15-minute TV ad Copyright © 1999 Nando Media Copyright © 1999 Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (March 10, 1999 2:00 a.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) - Elizabeth Dole, initiating a first, formal step toward a possible run for president, says it's high time that the nation's leaders restore voters' faith in their government - to "call America to her better nature."
"I'm not a politician and, frankly, today that may be a plus," Dole said in her television ad, which was to air in Iowa and New Hampshire. Aides said the ad would flesh out the themes of a Dole campaign. "Politics and the politics of governing have become so negative, so paralyzed by special interests, that as a people we're beginning to lose faith in our own institutions," she said. Her opening pitch took a not-too-subtle poke at President Clinton."If I run, this will be why: I believe our people are looking for leaders who will call America to her better nature," Dole said. "Yes, we've been let down, and by people we should have been able to look up to."
Dole Announcement Focuses GOP Field By MIKE GLOVER Associated Press Writer DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) ``Gender plays into it to the extent that having a very visible and viable female candidate causes women voters to pay closer attention to the Republican primaries,'' said Ed Gillespie, a consultant allied with Rep. John Kasich, R-Ohio, a likely presidential candidate in 2000. Mrs. Dole has certainly gotten the attention of potential rivals like Vice President Al Gore.
``I think we've long since passed the time when Americans are uncomfortable with women in any position of leadership,'' Gore said.
Dole says wife 'has to reach out to people' Elizabeth Dole can win if she campaigns in style of Minnesota's Ventura, husband says By Al Lewis News Staff Writer
Elizabeth Dole needs to campaign like a pro wrestler to win the White House from the big boys of politics, her husband, Bob Dole, said Monday.
"Elizabeth has to have a different campaign," he said, referring to the tactics of Minnesota's Jesse "The Body" Ventura. "She has to reach out to people."
"Speaking as a Republican, I want my party to let more people in," said the former U.S. senator and presidential candidate. "We don't have to agree with everybody. We ought to have diversity, not conformity. That's what America is all about.
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