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...enough of a pol. At home he chastised conservatives for flying the Confederate flag over the statehouse and for the G.O.P.'s tradition of racially divisive politics. In Washington, where he sleeps on an air mattress in his office, a sign scolds lobbyists who want to buy his vote. He blasted his party for this year's transportation bill. "Do I play the old system of bringing home a little money and expecting everyone to fall at my feet and declare me savior?" he asks. "No. I seek to change systems so the nation prospers...
Hollings' position could motivate Inglis' socially conservative base to get out and vote, but it could also bring pro-Clinton African Americans to the polls. In any case, the race is going right to the wire, and it won't be pretty. Hollings has already called his opponent a "goddamn skunk," a "rascal" and a "reptile." The courteous Inglis has turned the outbursts into an issue; he is planning to ride across highways 26 and 85 in his trademark bright-red R.V. on what he's calling the "Expect More Tour." But South Carolinians will have to decide whether expecting...
...Republicans, the former wrestler, actor and radio shock jock is still playing the bad guy. Most observers had considered Ventura's shoestring Reform Party campaign an entertaining sideshow to the main event. Then a new poll in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune showed him with an impressive 21% of the vote--double what he had had a month before and within striking distance of his two major rivals. Gnarled in a statistical headlock at about 35% each are the Establishment heavyweights: Democrat Hubert ("Skip") Humphrey III, the state's attorney general and son of the late Vice President, and his G.O.P...
...corrupt campaign-finance system, the sensationalist media and, most of all, career politicians. Students in the audience at Northfield's St. Olaf College hooted, applauded and did the Wave to show their appreciation. "He wants to help people," said David Parker, a starstruck St. Olaf sophomore who plans to vote for Ventura. "He's like a father figure...
...wrestling fans, perhaps. But could the Body be a credible Governor? Steve Schier, chair of the political-science department at Carleton College, puts Ventura in the emerging populist tradition of Minnesota, a state that in 1992 gave 24% of its vote to Reform Party founder Ross Perot and in this decade has elected populists of both the left and the right--Democrat Paul Wellstone and Republican Rod Grams--to the U.S. Senate. Ventura's campaign slogan--"Retaliate in '98"--fits the tradition...