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Vital voter groups carry Clinton here Independents, Catholics, women back president, Wisconsin exit polls find; Across The Nation `It's a lot more fun winning. It hurts to lose an election.` Bob Dole `I'm going to sit back for a few days, and then I'm going to start standing up for what I think is right with America.` Dole `I feel comfortable that we have done our best, been a good team.` Jack Kemp `I've come away with an unbelievably profound respect for Bob.` Kemp, referring to Dole `It's a good day for America.` President Clinton `Clinton waffles too much. Dole with that flag amendment, what a waste. How many flag burnings have there been in the past four years?` Joe Shrum, New Orleans physician who voted for Ross Perot `I like Dole because he's a vet, but there are just some things he seems to b little backward for the everyday man on.` Phillip Arrington, retired postal worker and veteran from Pittsburgh who voted for Clinton `Just because the news media are telling us he doesn't have a chance doesn't mean we believe it.` Margaret Cox, worked for Dole when he was a county attorney in Kansas; voted for Dole `I've campaigned a long time. I guess I'll miss it.` Strom Thurmond, South Carolina senator after being elected to his eighth term `Bob Dole has completed his last political mission with courage and honor. Even in defeat, he has much to claim in the way of success.` Nelson Warfield, GOP campaign press secretary `I think he has a very strong desire to go down in the history books as an important president. But the kinds of things he has been talking about like uniforms for schoolchildren are not going to get any space in the history books.` William Leuchtenburg, presidential scholar `He has two things going for him: He can buy his way into the process if he wants to, and he is pretty media savvy.` Benjamin Ginsberg, director of Johns Hopkins Center for the Study of American Government, speaking of Perot.
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President Clinton carried Wisconsin and its 11 electoral votes
Tuesday with close to half the popular vote.
He did it by outpolling Bob Dole among key groups of voters:
women, independents and Catholics.
And after a campaign in which he hammered his opponent on the
issue of Medicare, the incumbent Democrat was helped immensely by
the margins he racked up among voters 65 and older.
As some analysts expected, Clinton's winning cushion was a bit
smaller than the gaudy lead he enj...
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