Word: harkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with signs compete for street corners. A Honda with a pencil-shaped "Write In Ralph Nader" sign strapped to the roof is parked in front of a meter that reads "Time Expired." On the sidewalk, a local television reporter interviews a silver-haired man, who says into the camera, "Harkin isn't stiff; he seems like a relaxed, regular guy. He betrays a certain barnyard roughness around the edges, I suppose, but he can communicate with the everyday American...
...blocks away, in the Manchester headquarters for the Harkin campaign, Andrew Morin is looking for some volunteers. "Is anybody up for a straight lit drop?" he cries. Three college students just back from canvassing raise their hands: yes, they'll do a lit drop, but they need a ride. Volunteers keep returning from assignments and Morin's job is to get them back to work. Every five minutes he comes around: how'd you like to phone bank? how'd you like to canvass? you guys want to do some visibility...
Chad Kister comes back from a morning of canvassing. He wears a plastic Uncle Sam hat with a Harkin bumper sticker, a secondhand herring-bone overcoat, high-top sneakers. The question he receives most often when knocking on doors is "Why did you come all the way out here?" Kister took a week off from classes at Ohio State and had to reschedule a midterm to work for the Harkin campaign. In Cleveland, he hitched a ride on a bus of Harkin supporters from Iowa...
...Dawn Sweitzer, a senior adviser to theHarkin campaign, attacked Tsongas, Clinton andKerrey, all of whom finished ahead of Harkin...
...Foley, an attorney from Newport Beach, Calif., who went to high school with Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin and has followed him through five states, said that he had been standing in front of the polls since...