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Feinstein was prescient enough to make illegal immigration a pet issue, which gives her some political cover in her unexpectedly tight race against conservative Santa Barbara Congressman Michael Huffington. But the same cannot be said of Democrat Kathleen Brown, who in a struggle to unseat Governor Pete Wilson finds herself slipping over what has become the most hazardous issue of the 1994 elections. If California runs true to form, leading America's social revolutions through the ballot box, it will pass Proposition 187, an implacable, baldly unconstitutional plan to cut off services to illegal immigrants, from schools to health care...
...Michael Huffington campaigns sparingly, and he prefers sterile, controlled environments. On this bright September morning, the G.O.P. Senate candidate is visiting the neonatal unit of the Long Beach Community Hospital. He makes the smallest of small talk, marveling at how big the monitors are and how tiny the babies. Well over 6 ft. tall and thin as his pinstripes, with a smile that never seems to reach his eyes, Huffington manages to escape without having a real conversation with anyone. At his next and last stop, he thanks volunteers and ticks off his reasons for trying to wrest away...
Others have tried, but Huffington may be perfecting campaigning as an out- of-body experience. Although he has no other appearances on his schedule for this day or the rest of the week, his staff, only three of whom are allowed to speak to the press, insists he will have no time to sit for a real interview to explain what he is for. This is not surprising. Huffington, 47, did not go from political virginity in 1991 to a dead heat with Feinstein (the latest Field poll has them at a 42-42 tie) by providing his unscripted musings...
...Democratic candidates already find themselves moving cautiously rightward this year. Two years ago, when Clinton handily took California from George Bush, Dianne Feinstein won her Senate race in a landslide. This year she holds just a 6-point lead over Michael Huffington, a one-term Republican Congressman. The ultrawealthy heir to a family fortune made in natural gas, Huffington has spent $10 million of his own money on the campaign and expects to spend that much again by Election Day, most of it on TV commercials. To combat those, Feinstein's ads concentrate strongly on her anticrime measures...
...given short shrift to Democratic candidates hungry for support. Mikulski, who sees herself as the protector of the Senate's women, griped about Wilhelm's refusal to spend another $1 million on advertising in California, where Senator Dianne Feinstein is facing an extremely rough challenge from Republican Congressman Michael Huffington. Wilhelm had already invested $1 million in California. Overall, in fact, he has devoted a total of $10 million to date to the midterm races. That exceeds by far what previous chairmen spent. But Democrats are desperate this year...