Dole Tries To Beat Odds In Las Vegas

Running on adrenalin, fast food and the desperation born of a large opinion poll deficit, Dole is staging a 96-hour campaign marathon until Tuesdays election. For him, the gamble has already paid off: the idea of a 96-hour campaign blitz the longest in electoral history has captured the headlines which have so long eluded him.

The television networks are giving it top billing, and Dole has pushed his President Bill Clinton into second place on the newscasts.

To achieve that, Dole had to find a place to assemble a large crowd in the middle of the night. Las Vegas was perfect for his purposes: it keeps gamblers hours.

 

It is a city where the line between fantasy and reality is constantly blurred, where statues speak, pirates live and jungles bloom in the desert.

In Las Vegas, everything is possible: people go there because they think they can beat the odds.