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Last week at least one voter poll showed Cuomo running ahead of Harkin, Kerrey and Brown. As soon as he's ahead of Tsongas, Clinton and Bush, he's really going to have to make up his mind...
...Wednesday, Feb. 19, the day after the New Hampshire primary, and Bob Kerrey has come in third, behind Paul Tsongas and Bill Clinton -- or fourth behind Tom Harkin, or even fifth behind the Mario Cuomo write-in campaign. A small group of Kerrey backers, the money raisers, visit their candidate. In their minds is an old Eugene McCarthy line: "The motto of the Benedictine order is 'Keep death daily before your eyes,' which is a very good motto for politicians." We're sorry, Bob, say Kerrey's men, but you're dead. The bank is closed. We're broke...
...people who elected me. "I want to run for President, but I can't." Fast-forward to last Wednesday evening, Feb. 12. The Governor delivers a brilliant political speech at Harvard, and the panting begins anew. In 45 minutes Cuomo runs the gamut from sounding like the liberal Harkin to the neoconservative Tsongas. There is "no free lunch," he says, aping Tsongas' hard-nosed view that resurrecting the economy will require a lot more than smoke and mirrors, a lot more than simply awarding the middle class a tax break at the expense of the rich...
...Harkin also emphasized his wish to "build" in his emotional stump speeches. He wants to build the nation's infrastructure, to "build a new America...
...need a clean break with Reagan-Bush trickle down economics," Harkin says...