Word: harkin
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...have prompted scorn and snickering during his campaign for a second term, two things usually fatal to a politician, the fervently conservative Senator has demonstrated a Teflon resistance to lasting taint. The Des Moines Register poll conducted last spring showed him 16 points behind his opponent, Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin, but the Register poll released last week gave the Senator a 50%-to-41% lead. Jepsen has appealed to Iowa voters by claiming to be a victim of "character assassination." At a Republican state convention, he won sympathy by saying he had been "stripped of all worldly pride and humbled...
...have established a tradition of tossing out incumbent Senators, having disposed of two of them in that fashion over the past six years. They may be set to reinforce the pattern. The victim would be conservative Republican Roger Jepsen, who is being challenged by five-term liberal Congressman Tom Harkin. Jepsen, regarded by many as pompous, was badly hurt by the revelation that seven years ago he had visited a Des Moines sex club. Harkin has lately been running ahead of Jepsen in the polls, but observers warn that it is still too early to count the Republican...
...less campaigns, however, are still in a decided minority. Only two members of the Senate and eight Congressmen decline to accept PAC contributions.* No wonder: unless a candidate is personally wealthy or politically invulnerable, the highroad can be a short cut to defeat. Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin of Iowa, for example, takes PAC money even though he has voted repeatedly to limit PAC influence. Says a Harkin aide: "To refuse PAC money would be to lay down your sword when you know your opponent...
...Secretary's financial-disclosure statement for 1983, made public in May, indicated that the farming partnerships in which he has an interest obtained unsecured loans totaling about $2.5 million, most of which appear to have been assumed since his nomination to the Cabinet. Exon and Congressman Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat who is running for the Senate this year, wondered aloud whether banks were showing favoritism to Block at a time when, as Block's critics say, other farmers could not get credit on any terms...
...through some rocky times." According to the Senator, the fact that his application, confiscated in a police raid two months after his visit, was publicized by an Iowa radio station at this time points to "character assassination ... by forces which seek my defeat for re-election." Democratic Congressman Tom Harkin is already running well ahead of Jepsen in the polls. Since a shift of six seats would give control of the Senate to the Democrats, Jepsen's problems are important to the calculations of both parties...