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The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times lead with Gov. George W. Bush's victory in the Iowa Straw Poll.
A roomful of self-portraits, with changing identities worthy of Cindy Sherman (van Gogh as citified dandy in pink fedora; van Gogh as country yokel in straw hat), implies a sort of plural van Gogh, a chameleon personality hard to pin down.
At a news conference, an aide introduced Dole as the straw poll's "real winner."
The straw items (bags, placemats) are now made in China, as are many of the other tourist tchotchkes on sale here.
To undermine the straw poll's authority as an arbiter of his candidacy, McCain called it a "fund-raiser," "a sham and a joke" in which campaigns spent "millions" to "buy" votes.