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Most potential candidates have pledged support. But Gary Hart and Richard Gephardt did so only after trading some hard shots in Iowa. Gephardt went so far as to imply that Hart has no backbone...
...Although Gephardt, 46, is nearly invisible in the polls, he hopes to get off to a strong start in the Iowa caucuses. For a year he has been working at an election-year pace, taking only Sundays off. He has visited Iowa so often -- 27 times since 1985 -- that he has been nicknamed "Iowa's seventh Congressman" (the state has six). The boyish-looking lawyer's penchant for work is well known: after arriving in Washington in 1977, he quickly rose through Congress to become chairman of the House Democratic Caucus in 1984. He was the co-sponsor with...
...Gephardt has been one of the loudest proponents in Congress for reversing the nation's $170 billion trade deficit through tougher legislation, including retaliatory measures against countries that refuse to open their markets to U.S. goods. He said last week, "People sitting in cushy offices, in secure jobs, have no right to tell workers on assembly lines that their livelihoods have to be sacrificed on the altar of a false and rigid free-trade ideology...
...Gephardt's status as the only announced Democrat will not last long. Former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt has formed a campaign committee. Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers is nearing a decision. Last week Illinois Senator Paul Simon declared his support for Bumpers and said he would not run. Better-known Democrats -- Colorado's Gary Hart, Delaware Senator Joe Biden and Jesse Jackson -- are also looming as candidates but are not expected to make their declarations until later this year...
...will Gephardt long stand alone as the sole challenger from the House. Republican Jack Kemp from Buffalo has all but announced his candidacy. Kemp has already been tilting against Vice President George Bush, the G.O.P. front runner, whose campaign got a boost last week with the endorsement of New Hampshire Governor John Sununu...