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Stabenow, 50, positively glows charisma. Abraham, by comparison, can look a bit bug-eyed and pudgy. He often appears uncomfortable on the campaign trail. His strategist, Mike Murphy, the man who guided John McCain's presidential campaign, calls Abraham, 48, "made for radio." Murphy doesn't show the candidate's face much...
...spots that define her as a spendthrift, turn-back-the-clock liberal. One offered her smiling at the center of a clock. As the hands turned backward, a list of her liberal "achievements" scrolled across the screen. All the same, Stabenow stayed close in the polls until August, when Abraham went after her attempt to identify herself as the champion of elderly voters unhappy with prescription-drug costs. Stabenow--who has twice bused seniors across the border to Canada, where they could buy cheaper medicines--has been promoting the Democratic plan's Medicare drug benefit, which would...
...case of being outspent," says Wayne County executive Ed McNamara, a Democrat. "If you get the spin doctors going, you can elect Dracula to heaven." Stabenow is looking for rescue from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which is pouring in money to put her advertising outlays in line with Abraham's. "Here's all we know," says Jim Jordan, the Democratic Senate-campaign political director. "After millions of dollars, Abraham still hasn't reached 50% in the polls. The voters of Michigan are looking for an alternative." Maybe so. But whether Stabenow is the alternative they are looking...
What's fueling the estimated $150 million miniature-fountain business is the buying power of America's graying population. "Baby boomers will do anything to keep from aging, and stress makes you look and feel old," says Paulette Abraham, marketing director of industry leader HoMedics, based in Detroit. The company, which also sells foot massagers and therapeutic magnets, began mass-marketing Chinese-made fountains last August. It offers 25 designs ranging from $20 nightstand models to $250 slate water walls 4 ft. high. The waterworks aren't always a hit with the younger crowd. This summer a 26-year...
...balls. There's even a dizzying version of a water-based Lava lamp. Conair, known more for its hair dryers than its home-spa products, is developing a fountain with water flowing over a 3-D photograph of--you guessed it--flowing water. "It's reinvent or die," says Abraham. "That's the only way to keep a trend like this going...