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...every other year -- his practiced eye spots some important differences. "All the contenders are relatively little known in national terms," says Barrett. "This fact, together with the short preseason competition, means a candidate has very little opportunity to recover from a stumble." Because Iowa's favorite son Senator Tom Harkin has that state's caucuses in the bag, Barrett feels the New Hampshire primary is "even more important than ever." In addition, it seems that each year polling and television commercials play an ever larger role. But in January of an election year, a political junkie's proper place...
...appearing throughout the state. In the end, his presidential bid failed to ignite much interest among voters or contributors. Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton has lined up endorsements from Mississippi Congressman Mike Espy and other black Democrats that should help him dominate Dixie's primaries in March. Iowa Senator Tom Harkin might also pick up black support among civil rights activists who find his liberalism more congenial than Clinton's centrist approach...
...Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey has been tarnished by conflict-of-interest reports, his failure to flesh out a specific message beyond a comprehensive national health-care plan, and an emerging perception that he is little more than a biography in a suit. And then there is Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, whose embodiment of Rooseveltian notions of government intervention should command liberal loyalties. Instead Harkin is watching helplessly as crucial elements of what should be his core constituency, the country's leading white-collar union leaders, conclude that he is too strident and too liberal to appeal broadly in a general...
...judgment about Harkin that best explains the rush to Clinton. It is as though the liberals who have dominated the Democrats' nominating process for 20 years have all grown up at once. "We've indulged our hearts long enough," says Ickes. "We've lost the White House and consoled ourselves with Democratic Congresses. But it's clear that when you control Congress you control nothing. We want to win, so we overlook things like Bill's support of the death penalty and the gulf war. It's that simple...
Most of Bush's rivals for the White House are staking out nuanced positions on trade. While populist Democrat Tom Harkin and conservative Republican Pat Buchanan both talk tough about forcing the Japanese to open their markets, Democrats Bill Clinton, Bob Kerrey and Paul Tsongas have argued that successful competitiveness begins at home. Clinton recently told a working- class audience in Manchester, N.H., that Bush cannot solve the nation's economic problems by seeking concessions from Tokyo. The Japanese, Clinton said, will help get Bush "past the election, but over the long run, we're going to have to compete...