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...Raftis, the campaign director for Democratic presidential candidate TOM HARKIN, has a management style that owes more to Robert Bly than to Lee Atwater. Last week Raftis, 32, abruptly left the campaign trail. Reason: his wife gave birth to a boy, and the 32-year-old strategist wanted to help out at home...
...Well before the plunge in Bush's poll ratings lured Buchanan into the race, some Democrats were honing variations on isolationist and protectionist themes. Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder came to New Hampshire in August to tout what he calls a "Put-America-First Initiative." He echoes Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who has stridently attacked Bush for his foreign travels, lambasted the free-trade treaty that the Administration is negotiating with Mexico and carped about foreign aid. While insisting that he is neither an isolationist nor a protectionist, Harkin often sounds like both. When he declared his candidacy, he spoke approvingly...
...Harkin, who says evenhandedness is "ridiculous," has been all over the lot. While Jewish groups view him as generally "right," Harkin twice voted to cut foreign aid to all countries by 5%. He could be hurt as well by a May 13, 1991, letter to an Iowa constituent in which he supported "a negotiated settlement that would satisfy the national aspirations of both the Israelis and Palestinians," a formulation that apparently envisions an eventual West Bank Palestinian state...
...Clinton, a condom; To Harkin, a brew...
...GEORGE Herbert Walker Bush must take more drastic steps if he wants to convince the American electorate of his common man image. He needs to answer jabs from Democratic presidential candidates with real changes in his lifestyle, persona and attitude. When candidate Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa says that "Bush's idea of solving a domestic problem is to fire the maid and yell at the butler," the sitting president shouldn't be vetoing unemployment benefits or remodeling the oval office. He should be portraying himself as sympathetic to--and part of--the middle class...