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Lenora Fulani. Thanks to her money-raising abilities, the 41-year-old developmental psychologist and leader of the left-wing New Alliance Party will receive more than $600,000 in federal matching funds, a sum exceeded only by Bush and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin...
Take the recent joint appearance of Brown and Iowa Senator Tom Harkin at a breakfast for 1,500 liberal Democratic farmers and senior citizens in Moline, Ill. Harkin rolled up his working-class sleeves, quoted from the Old Testament and Abe Lincoln, and with drawling, oratorically expert highs and lows, hammered away at the Bush Administration on bread-and-butter issues...
...listeners have, and they laugh appreciatively. Yet many Democrats seem more comfortable with Harkin's familiar boilerplate than with Brown's jeremiad. "Whew! What a free market of ideas. And I sure respect the way he gets on that freight train of passion," said Sam Barone, executive director of Ohio's Democratic Party organization, after a Brown speech in Chicago. "But I'll tell you this, if he should dispatch a bunch of those pony- tailed Californians with earrings into Ohio or Indiana as volunteers, then he can just forget...
...would have little real impact on the Republican nomination process. For the Democrats, however, New Hampshire is the crucial first hurdle. Unlike most recent elections, the Feb. 10 caucuses in Iowa will have little meaning this year because no one is seriously competing there against native son Tom Harkin. That leaves it up to Granite State voters to give the Democratic aspirants their first real electoral test...
...three strongest rivals -- Harkin, Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey -- all insist they must "do well" in New Hampshire. But none of them defines what that means for fear of inflating expectations. As these three candidates strive to gain a distinct image, the campaign will gain heat. For Kerrey, New Hampshire represents an opportunity to right himself after a rocky couple of months culminating in the replacement last week of his national campaign manager. Harkin, the most combative and liberal of the group, is expected to attack the centrist Clinton, whom Harkin views as his main rival...