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...South Dakota the race could be called the Jane Fonda election. When first- term Republican Senator James Abdnor found himself trailing telegenic Democrat Tom Daschle by nine points, he unleashed a barrage of TV spots charging that his rival had consorted at a congressional hearing with Fonda, conservative America's most reviled radical. Fonda, Abdnor pointed out, had urged people not to eat red meat; beef and pork are among South Dakota's biggest farm products. The upshot: Abdnor has now pulled slightly ahead...
Those of us who were born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown are just as American as those of us raised in New York's Little Italy or South Dakota's Black Hills. Asian Americans cannot "assimilate" into the American way of life because already are American--that's why we love pizza, hate the Unions' pu-pu platter, cheer the Red Sox and boo the Mets (or vice versa). We cannot "separate" from the "mainstream" because we already have visited Disney World, attended St. Paul's Academy or the Harvard School, and cannot help but dream...
...State which did not send any representatives to the Class of '90: Wyoming, North Dakota...
...awkward and uninspiring orator, Abdnor has avoided tying himself to the President, emphasizing instead his disagreements with Administration figures like David Stockman. Though South Dakota's Republicans slightly outnumber Democrats, Abdnor trails Daschle by six to ten points in the latest polls...
...farm belt have found themselves in dead-even races. Idaho's flamboyant Steve Symms, who has taken heat for the state's economic decline as well as his reputation for a fast-paced life- style, is being challenged by Democratic Governor John Evans, a folksy moderate. In North Dakota, Senator Mark Andrews blew a 12-point lead over Democratic Tax Commissioner Kent Conrad when he erroneously claimed that grain prices had been rising and took credit for the nonexistent increase. In Missouri, the acrimonious race between former Republican Governor Christopher ("Kit") Bond and Democratic Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods to succeed...