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...Democratic candidate, Rep Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.), in a desperation tactic prior to the Super Tuesday contacts, put an advertisement on the air that said, in part, "Mike Dukakis smeared Joe Biden...and now he's attempting to smear Dick Gephardt...
...Richard Gephardt's (D--Missouri) politics of resentment and trade walls played well in Iowa but fell flat on the more integrated and tradedependent Northeast. Sen. Paul Simon's (D-Illinois) brand of populism was equally anachronistic...
Although Dukakis has been somewhat emboldened by adversity, his critiques of Jackson remain oblique and limited. When pressed, Dukakis points out that he dissents from some of Jackson's stands, such as advocacy of a Palestinian homeland. But though the Governor once grew adept at trading invective with Richard Gephardt, now he will only gingerly compare his record with Jackson's, using lines like "I don't just talk about jobs; I've helped create them...
Iowa's winners. On that heady morning of Feb. 9, they could have been excused for addressing themselves in the mirror as "Mr. President." Bob Dole and Dick Gephardt had just won the Iowa caucuses (remember them?) and had every reason to expect a surge that would carry them to their nominations. But the glow did not survive Super Tuesday, and last week they bowed to the inevitable and quit the race. More than 3,000 reporters covered the Iowa campaign. In the end it turned out to be less important than the Michigan Democratic caucuses, for which nary...
...Gephardt's last deal. Dick Gephardt had a problem. By dropping out of the race, he would lose the right to name a number of Missouri's at-large delegates who are still to be selected. Instead, Jackson (the runner-up in Missouri) would get to pick them. But Gephardt, now planning to run for re- election to the House, wanted to reward home-state supporters with convention seats. So he called Jackson and asked for the right to name Missouri's at- large delegates in return for helping Jackson with delegate slates in South Dakota and Texas. Jackson magnanimously...