NATION IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Dole Campaign Trumpets Poll Win
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
After calling presidential straw polls meaningless, Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas won one in Orlando and his campaign trumpeted it as proof of grass-roots support. Dole beat former Tennessee Gov. Lamar Alexander, who ran second, and Sen. Phil Gramm of Texas, who was third, at the Florida Federation of Republican Women event.
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