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Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, who dropped out of therace during the final day of polling, won 5.7percent of Democratic voters on campus and 3.4percent of all students surveyed...
Saturday's South Carolina primaries set thestage for what could be an oft-repeated scenariotomorrow. Clinton dominated, as expected, winning64 percent of the vote. Tsongas followed with 18percent, and former Brown and Harkin each won sixpercent. Bush received 67 percent of theRepublican vote, while Buchanan won 26 percent andDuke won seven percent...
...Wyoming's Democratic caucuses, Clinton won28 percent of the delegates, with Brown at 24percent, Harkin at 14 percent and Tsongas at 11percent...
...Senators from neighboring farm states, Kerrey and Iowa's Tom Harkin had the most at stake in South Dakota. Because air time there is cheap, both were able to bombard South Dakotans with pro-agriculture messages. Kerrey attacked the two leading Democrats, Bill Clinton and Paul Tsongas, as insensitive to / farmers' problems. He gave Harkin a bye, partly because Kerrey hopes to inherit the Iowan's supporters if Harkin drops out. That may not take long: after Harkin placed second with 25%, he lacked funds to advertise anywhere. He had to back away from larger primaries and concentrate on this...
...Clinton may have hampered that effort with a bizarre, unscripted TV performance. Preparing for a satellite interview with an Arizona station, he was told -- inaccurately -- that Jesse Jackson was about to endorse the failing Harkin. Clinton, unaware that the camera and microphones were on, | delivered a tirade in which he accused Jackson of "backstabbing" him. That outburst got nationwide display, free exposure that Clinton may rue for weeks. As Clinton tried to mollify the Democrats' best-known black leader, Jackson complained about the "blast at my integrity." For Clinton, the possible cost of the incident was loss of black support...