Word: harkin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group is the third campus organization to spring up in recent weeks to back presidential candidates, joining supporters of former Massachusetts Sen. Paul E. Tsongas and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin...
...Harkin (D-Iowa) lies on the campaign trail about his deaf brother Frank and talks populist while owning a house in the Bahamas...
...field, not a single Democratic contender has more than a nodding acquaintance with foreign and defense policy. While there is still time to appear credible on these issues, most of those challenging Bush appear comfortable with their collective weakness. None are as vocal about it as Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who has come to play with his spikes sharpened. But most candidates have bought the notion that the threat of red ink outweighs the threat from Red Square and that a strategy long on domestic prescriptions can turn the trick. Only Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton demurs. "The American people think...
Bush's political handlers say they are eager to have Harkin as an opponent because his old-fashioned liberalism makes him an easy target. But Orrin Hatch, who knows Harkin better, predicts that "he's going to be a very formidable candidate." Conviction is a candidate's heavy armor, and Harkin's is thick. Those who disparage him as too ideological, too careless with facts, should remember 1980. Democratic strategists used the same points in explaining why they wanted the G.O.P. to nominate Ronald Reagan...
...combative Democratic candidate who wages an "in your face" campaign that ties Bush closely to his patrician roots. After New York's Mario Cuomo, who still appears disinclined to run, Bush's advisers most fear Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa. Their public glee at the prospect of an old-fashioned liberal leading the Democrats is tempered by Harkin's populist rhetoric and slashing stump style...