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Last September, in the dark autumn of Dianne Feinstein's discontent, her campaign for the governorship of California seemed dead in the water. She had been laid up half the summer recovering from a hysterectomy. Her San Francisco-based political consultant had ditched her, complaining that she lacked sufficient "fire in the belly" to respond to the opposition's scoffing attacks about her low profile. As she fell twelve points behind in the polls, many politicians guessed she might have to drop out of the race...
...main arena for Richards is West Texas oil millionaire Clayton Williams, who breezed to the Republican nomination in an easy March primary. In California, G.O.P. candidate (and U.S. Senator) Pete Wilson is lying in wait, while Democrats Attorney General John Van de Kamp and former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein have at each other. Among Florida's Democrats, former Senator Lawton Chiles has just heard "voices" that told him to jump into the primary at the last minute, wrecking the carefully built two-year campaign of Congressman Bill Nelson to be the standard-bearer against Republican Governor Bob Martinez...
...policy that worked better when they were the majority party. In California registered Democrats still outnumber Republicans, but last month for the first time since 1934 they dipped below 50% of the electorate, and the party can ill afford a divisive campaign. In a battle of the network stars, Feinstein shot ahead of Van de Kamp by 19 points with a tough pro-death penalty stance and an early television ad reprising her "I'm-in-charge-here" coolheadedness after the 1978 assassination of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone. Van de Kamp responded with an attack ad picturing Feinstein...
...incumbent Governor George Deukmejian have been willing to unite behind Wilson, although it means overlooking his moderate pro-choice, pro- environment, anti-off-shore-drilling stances. Wilson heads into California's TV-heavy general election ready to deploy $16 million to $20 million, while Van de Kamp and Feinstein will already have spent most of what they have raised -- about $4 million apiece...
...Nowhere is death-penalty politics more powerful than in California, where former San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein faces state Attorney General John Van de Kamp in a race for the Democratic nomination for Governor. Feinstein's campaign was considered all but hopeless until recently, when she began to run a television ad proclaiming her approval of both abortion rights and capital punishment. Almost overnight, she rocketed up 19 points in the polls, grabbing the lead from Van de Kamp, an opponent of capital punishment. Now Van de Kamp has unveiled his own TV spot, complete with footage...