DIRCK HALSTEAD
Tuesday,
February 20:
Primary Day
It may have taken the New Hampshire primary to make Bill Clinton look truly presidential. By early evening, Pat Buchanan had broken free of a tenuous three-way tie with Bob Dole and Lamar Alexander to become, swiftly and unexpectedly, the bellwether Republican candidate in 1996. And Alexander, the third-place finisher, found more ears for his argument of electability. After the tallies came in, he predicted: "The Republican Party will never unify behind Pat."
