Word: kerrey
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...candidate openly endorses the health care plan of Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey, who dropped out of the race for the Democratic nomination last week...
Indeed, in a poll published in The Boston Globe on Sunday, Tsongas received 64 percent of the Democratic vote here, and Clinton eight percent. Former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. took six percent, Nebraska Sen. Bob Kerrey--who dropped from the race the day after the poll's completion--four percent and Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin, who left the race yesterday, three percent...
...Senators from neighboring farm states, Kerrey and Iowa's Tom Harkin had the most at stake in South Dakota. Because air time there is cheap, both were able to bombard South Dakotans with pro-agriculture messages. Kerrey attacked the two leading Democrats, Bill Clinton and Paul Tsongas, as insensitive to / farmers' problems. He gave Harkin a bye, partly because Kerrey hopes to inherit the Iowan's supporters if Harkin drops out. That may not take long: after Harkin placed second with 25%, he lacked funds to advertise anywhere. He had to back away from larger primaries and concentrate on this...
While his advisers drew a new battle plan for the fortnight after South Dakota, Kerrey went south to deliver what an aide called "a real hit" on Clinton, the favorite in the Georgia primary scheduled for this week. A Medal of Honor winner who lost part of a leg in Vietnam, Kerrey berated his rival for failing to be candid about how he avoided military service. That makes Clinton unelectable in November, Kerrey insisted. In an awkward affectation of Southern folksiness, the Nebraskan predicted Clinton would "get opened up like a boiled peanut" by the Republican President. But Clinton barked...
...assault by Kerrey violated earlier promises to let the issue lie. But his camp thought it had to shake the chessboard. Kerrey has virtually no chance of winning Georgia or any of the large states up for grabs next week, including Texas and Florida. So his ploy is to drive down Clinton's numbers while pursuing a "delegate accrual" strategy -- targeting specific districts in the hope of picking up small blocs of delegates in many states. He also looks west, striving for a base that will keep him in the contest until the final primaries in June. When Kerrey...