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...harvest. Michael Dukakis, who scored a firm but not flashy 36% New Hampshire victory, heads into the unfamiliar terrain of Dixie as the leading white liberal in the race. Jesse Jackson, of course, should corral almost all the black vote. By finishing second in New Hampshire, with 20%, Richard Gephardt demonstrated that his nativist trade policies and his fiery mock-populist rhetoric resonate with blue-collar voters across the geographic spectrum. And Albert Gore, the not-ready-for-North ern-climes candidate, must prove that his Southern endorsements and smart-set moderate appeal can translate into primary votes...
Less than 24 hours after Dick Gephardt arrived in New Hampshire, Paul Simon's negative ads were on the air. They were designed to act as a video karate chop to the Iowa victor's momentum. Again, there were simple side-by- side head shots of the candidates followed by a slanted comparison of voting records. Gephardt's tracking polls showed his lead over Simon diminishing to almost zero...
...Gephardt swiftly retaliated. His ads were minimalist: all words, white on a black background, ending with a small picture of Gephardt's face. The ad fired from both barrels, accusing Simon of distorting Gephardt's record on Social Security and describing Michael Dukakis as "one of the biggest tax raisers in ^ Massachusetts history." Between Saturday and Tuesday, Gephardt's slide stopped...
...Richard Gephardt has been wondrously able to transform himself from a Washington insider to a tribal populist. He speaks of the battle in us-vs.- them terms, casting himself as a crusader against the very same thems he was once proud to be a part of. For others, the message has cultural underpinnings: Pat Robertson identifying himself with God's elect, Jesse Jackson with the disaffected...
...Gephardt ran advertisements in South Dakota asserting that Dukakis knew nothing of agriculture, recalling Dukakis' suggestion in Iowa a year ago that farmers should turn to products such as Belgian endive and blueberries. Dukakis countered with an ad saying that "while Dick Gephardt has been publicly promising to fight for you, he's taking political action committee money from corporate insiders and Washington lobbyists...