Word: harkin
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WITH the New Hampshire primary only 15 days away, voters in the Granite State remain a remarkably undecided bunch. None of the five major Democratic candidates--not Bob Kerrey, Paul Tsongas, Tom Harkin, Jerry Brown or Bill Clinton--has successfully won the hearts of a wide swath of New Hampshire voters...
NASHUA, N.H.: One of the Granite State's cities hardest-hit by the recession. When I went to Nashua for a day to canvass for Tom Harkin last week, I fully expected that the economy would be the most important issue on the voters' minds--and it was. But I was surprised by the voters' near-universal indecision about which candidate to support...
College campus contains the components necessary to produce effective social and political activism--student groups. And we have a ton of them. Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), the House and Neighborhood Development program (HAND), Citystep, the Harvard Democrats and Republicans, Harvard for Harkin, Students for Clinton, Students for Kerrey, even Students for Agran. You get the picture...
...case, students may prove to be key in this country's attempts to solve social and political ills. Two candidates for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton, have caught on to this approach and advocate a program whereby the government would provide high school graduates with college tuition money in return for a commitment of community service...
...having gone to school on Gore's failure. "Gore couldn't show any foot outside the South," says Clinton. "I have to, and the decision had to be made before things began to break well in New Hampshire. The Michigan primary is also on that day, but I figured Harkin, with his auto-workers support, would take that one. So Illinois was it" -- and Clinton's is the best organized operation there...