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Sure, in this movie it's miners fighting for their claims instead of farmers fighting for their land, and a rock to be cracked instead of a tree stump to be moved, and a little girl becoming a woman instead of a little boy emulating a hero. But changes of scenery and slight changes of situation can't fool anyone who has seen the original. This is Shane all over again...
...would probably have won again in 1979, had he not been barred by state law from seeking a third consecutive term. Four years later, Edwards bragged that he could not lose to Treen unless he was "caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." A riveting stump speaker who sprinkles his oratory with Cajun French, Edwards reputedly can film a 28-second campaign commercial in a single take without a script, a rehearsal or a stopwatch. He has run 15 times for public office, including four terms in Congress, and has never lost. Sighed the vanquished Treen...
...pioneering quest to become the nation's second-highest elected official, Geraldine Ferraro ran not one campaign but two. On one level, she sought to do what running mates always have: stump long and loyally for her party's presidential nominee and bolster the ticket among his weaker constituencies. On another level, Ferraro was running for the history books. As the first woman ever nominated for the vice presidency by a major party, as well as the first Italian American, she broke new political ground along every step of a grueling four-month journey...
...distanced himself from Reagan. Illinois Republican Daniel Crane, 48, who was censured for being ultimate with a 17-year-old female page, could not withstand the challenge of Democratic State Senator Terry Bruce, 40. Crane, a handsome father of six, had served three terms in the House. On the stump, Bruce avoided moral judgments on Crane's censure but maintained that it had undermined his legislative effectiveness...
...Missouri, the G.O.P. retained the governorship that Christopher ("Kit") Bond was required to give up after serving two terms. His successor: Attorney General John Ashcroft, 42, a born-again Christian who sometimes ended his stump speeches with a gospel hymn from one of the record albums he has co-recorded. Ashcroft beat back the challenge of Democrat Kenneth Rothman, 49, Lieutenant Governor for the past four years. A graduate of Yale and the son of minister, Ashcroft defended his failure to prosecute dioxin polluters by pointing out that doing so precipitately might have jeopardized the federal buyout of polluted homesites...