Elizabeth Dole Doubts Polls, Stays Optimistic

WASHINGTON (AllPolitics, Oct. 24) -- Forget the polls. Elizabeth Dole fully expects to move into the White House in January.

"You see so many situations where polls have been so stunningly wrong," said the wife of GOP nominee Bob Dole on CNN's "Larry King Live" Wednesday night. "This is going to be another come-from-behind victory on November 5th. That's obvious."

Helping her make the point was New Jersey's Republican governor, Christine Todd Whitman, who called in toward the end of the program to relate her own election experience. "Two days out they were calling me 'loser,'" she said. "And now they call me 'Governor.'"

Dole placed part of the blame on the media for not telling the whole story. "Sometimes I feel there's a filter or screen between what I see and what I read," she said. "I think, very candidly, that a lot of the media are on the other side."

Dole made a pitch to Ross Perot's Reform Party supporters. "I think the Republican Party is the reform party," she said. "I would urge the Perot supporters to look at the agenda here and what Bob Dole accomplished as Senate majority leader, which of course he is going to do as president."

The character issue also came up, but ever so gently. "There is a tendency among some people," Dole said, "to doubt whether Bob Dole will carry out his campaign commitments on the 15 percent tax cut, a $500-per-child tax credit, and that is very sad and frustrating to me because any person who served with my husband over the years, Democrat or Republican, will tell you in a minute, 'This man is honest, trustworthy, his word is his bond.'"

Elizabeth Dole Doubts Polls, Stays Optimistic

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