"You believe this?" Bob Dole said in Dover, New Hampshire, recently. "You ever seen anything like this?" Dole's incredulity was due in equal measure to the huge size of the crowd and the rapt, respectful attention he was receiving. "The rest of the country may think it's early," Dole said. "Up here they know better. This deal's gonna be over in a year."
Dole is not yet the Republican nominee, but he's got the timing right. The schedule of primaries and caucuses has never been so compressed. In just 44 days between Iowa's 1996 caucus on Feb. 12 and California's primary...
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