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...particular concern in midterm elections, when only about 35% to 40% of those eligible cast ballots. Already, Democratic candidates have been spooked by high Republican turnout in the primaries -- and low turnout among Democrats. "The Republican base vote is more motivated than ours this year," said Donald Sweitzer, political director of the Democratic National Committee. "We don't have a lot of sexy, hot- button issues...
...Dawn Sweitzer, a senior adviser to theHarkin campaign, attacked Tsongas, Clinton andKerrey, all of whom finished ahead of Harkin...
...Sweitzer called Tsongas' platform "warmed-overReaganomics," said Clinton would suffer in theSouth over the draft issue and sharply criticizedthe Kerrey campaign...
...have an underpinning of support that BobKerrey doesn't have," Sweitzer said. "We can takea punch, but one solid punch and he goes down...
There is disagreement. Says Don Sweitzer, an Ohio labor union consultant: "Labor people have that old macho attitude. They want a woman who stays in the home and the man outside working. It's a real serious problem if you have a woman Vice President." Roxanne Conlin reports something of the same trouble with farmers when she was campaigning for Governor of Iowa in 1982. "The sort of thing one does is campaign at grain elevators," she says. "I'd walk in and say, 'Hi, I'm Roxanne Conlin and I'm running for Governor.' People would stand there, like...