Forbes campaigns hard trying to make up gap

Steve Forbes has logged 12-thousand miles and spent 25-million dollars of his own fortune on his second campaign for the White House — and the rolling Forbes bandwagon continues its trek across the state. Today’s first stop was in Boone, where the republican presidential candidate kept to his main message.Forbes says front-runner George W. Bush and leading challenger John McCain have offered tax cuts which are too timid.While the “flat tax” was his main issue in 1996, this time around Forbes has pledged to work to end abortion — a direct appeal to conservative voters in Iowa.Forbes and Orrin Hatch are the only candidates campaigning here in today’s snow. George W. Bush arrives tonight in Dubuque, and will stay in Iowa until the Caucuses. Gary Bauer returns Thursday, with a fundraiser scheduled featuring the septuplets. Democrats Al Gore and Bill Bradley both return to the state tomorrow.