Word: harkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rival, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, finished in better position than expected, with 26 percent of the Democratic vote. The race for third was unresolved for several hours after polls closed last night. With 97 percent of all precincts reporting, Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey had 12 percent, Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin had 11 percent and former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown, Jr. tallied nine percent...
Kerrey was also upbeat after returns showed himbeating Harkin and Brown, although his leadconsisted of little more than a thousand voteslate last night...
...Harkin, who led Kerrey in polls through most oflast week, downplayed his fourth-place finish,saying that he has been an underdog from thebeginning and claiming that his opponents hadadopted many of his campaign ideas...
...Maybe we didn't come in first tonight, but ourprogram did," Harkin told supporters at theGranite Street Bar and Grill...
Some have suggested that a strong showing for the write-in campaign would complicate the race and could force former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown--or even Sen. Tom Harkin or Sen. Bob Kerrey--to quit the race...