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...CLELAND (D) SENATE (OPEN SEAT...
...Cleland's strong showing is due in part to his aggressive effort to seize the middle ground. He's running on such non-Democratic issues as term limits and a balanced budget, and has come out against gays in the military. Cleland has also distanced himself from President Clinton, who is not particularly popular in the state (polls show Clinton and Dole in a statistical dead heat). At the same time Cleland is reaching out to the Democratic base by supporting abortion rights and tying his opponent to the "extremist" Republican leadership in Congress. Democrats need to "stay...
...people also want heroes, and Cleland offers voters a life story full of sacrifice and struggle. He was a fresh-faced 6-ft. 3-in. former high school basketball star from Lithonia, Georgia, when he ignored the advice of family and friends and volunteered for combat duty in Vietnam. He lost two legs and an arm to a grenade explosion and, as he describes in his brutally honest memoir, Strong at the Broken Places, came home to battle indifferent medical care, bouts of depression and social rejection. Among the low points: going out on a date and, while crossing...
...Millner forces complain that Cleland is "running on biography," saying he would rather talk about his life than the issues. "He does have difficulties, but those are not the criteria for a U.S. Senator," says Millner spokesman Stuart Roy. "Nor does it say how you will vote in the U.S. Senate." But Millner, who came within 33,000 votes of defeating Governor Zell Miller two years ago, has been equally aggressive about running on his own Horatio Alger-like biography. He went from working in his father's gas station at age 10 and putting himself through college selling pots...
Millner may make it to the Capitol yet. He is expected to outspend Cleland by as much as $2 million, much of it his own money, and to dominate television in the final days of the campaign. Millner is also keeping up a tireless schedule of personal appearances--he has traveled more than 46,000 miles across the state since January. And his party affiliation may help: the Republican vote has been growing rapidly in Georgia, and no Southern Democrat has won an open Senate seat since 1988. Still, if the polls are to be believed, Cleland could...