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Because all the Democrats except home-state Senator Tom Harkin passed up the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire stood out as the only state where people could actually talk to the candidates in settings other than staged photo opportunities. Frightened by the middle-class recession, voters demanded of the candidates I-have-a-plan economic specifics and refused to be diverted from their high-minded commitment to issues by sideshow scandals...
...Comeback Kid." The big losers were two Senators who never grasped that so far 1992 represents a repudiation of politics as usual. War hero Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, an oddly diffident campaigner, offered the voters his biography wrapped in a glib media campaign and finished a poor third (11%). Harkin (10%) with his old-line liberalism and attack-dog persona came across as strident and out of touch. Quixotic Jerry Brown (8%) eked out a moral victory by running nearly even with Kerrey and Harkin on a shoestring budget...
Kerrey and Harkin will duel it out this week in the impossible-to-predict South Dakota primary. Kerrey remains the far more intriguing candidate, both in his potential electability and in his still evolving efforts to define himself. Voters like Kerrey, but they do not understand him, especially when he makes such cryptic comments as "I know what it is like to be alone, and I'll tell you when I'm President there won't be a single person who will feel alone." Moreover, he cannot seem to explain how to connect the dots in his shadowy vision...
...Harkin can only dream of his potential breakthrough primaries, Michigan and Ohio, a long and lonely three weeks into the political future. Although he won the support of 14 AFL-CIO unions last week, the angry prairie populist must be asking himself, "Aren't there some traditional Democrats still alive, somewhere...
...amazing sprint to take the lead in New Hampshire polls. But he still seemed a regional New England candidate, and the more he is taken seriously, the harder questions about his health and stamina (he has recovered from lymphoma) will become. Bob Kerrey and Tom Harkin by all ; appearances had failed to strike any sparks among the voters, and Jerry Brown still looked to be in a private orbit somewhere...