■ Going out on a limb with predictions in last week before election: Bill Kristol tells the Hill, “I think the Democrats will retake the House and might retake the Senate. I don’t think it’s out of the question that Gingrich will have a very close race in his district.” . . . Tod Lindberg, editorial-page editor of Washington Times: “Mr. Clinton beats Mr. Dole by 8 percentage points in the popular vote. Mr. Clinton collects 405 Electoral College votes to Mr. Dole’s 133. Republicans pick up 3 seats in the Senate. The House is a wash.” . . . Sen. Al D’Amato (R., N.Y.) predicts a 12-seat majority for Democrats in House to students at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, according to account in New York Observer. D’Amato also says Dole has been off-message because “candidates get bored,” calls Dick Armey a “big bag of wind.”
■ Of Dole’s “non-stop” 96-hour push, National Public Radio’s Elizabeth Arnold says, “Dole may not be able to articulate his message any more clearly with less sleep, nor is it likely the crowds will get any larger in the middle of the night.” . . . Jerome Zeifman, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee during Watergate, writes in Wall Street Journal that “The misdeeds of the Clinton Administration have fallen into a pattern of deceit and corruption that now clearly justifies denying Mr. Clinton a second term in office.” . . . The Economist tepidly endorses Dole. … A scorching George Will writes that Jack Kemp’s “campaign was a prolonged dance of narcissism. . . . Republicans should apologize to the country for proposing to put Kemp near the Presidency.” … In Minnesota, Faribault Daily News endorses ultraliberal Sen. Paul Wellstone (D., Minn.) to balance “far right conservatives in other states”: “If that is Minnesota’s cross to bear for the next six years, so be it.” … In Colorado Senate race, Gloria Steinem, Don Henley, and Robert Redford campaign for Democrat Tom Strickland; Republican Wayne Allard draws Charlton Heston. Brags Allard manager Dick Wadhams: “We had Moses. What we lack in quantity we make up in quality.” . . . The Left may have the celebrities, but Republicans have the athletes: Dole-Kemp ’96 announces the support of over 150 Olympians and professional athletes. . . . Eyebrows are raised by Washington Post report that Republican National Committee gave Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform $2 million in October. . . . Lawrence Hunter, chief economist for Empower America: “The truth is, we are experiencing the slowest economic expansion in more than 100 years.”
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