European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The contenders democrats Jerry Brown 53 occupation lawyer key asset running As outsider reformer May Appeal to voters anger with politicians and Well financed interest groups. Key liability unconventional behaviour and changes of positions saddled him with the nickname Quot governor  prospects two previous presidential campaigns and governorship of largest state make him Best known democratic candidate among rank and file voters. Recent polls showed him running first among democrats nationwide but last in new Hampshire. Education University of Santa Clara University of California Yale Law school. Family never married. Biographical highlights California Secretary of state California governor California democratic party chairman. Studied catholicism and zen buddhism. Worked with third world poor. Bill Clinton 45. Occupy Fon Arkansas governor. Kay asset experienced government executive. Only southerner in democratic race. Perceived As most moderate candidate. Kay Libil Liss Gennifer Flowers draft status and other controversies. Prospects was the democratic front runner but fading. Education Georgetown Oxford Yale. Family married one child biographical highlights Rhodes scholar Arkansas attorney general chairman of democratic leadership Council National governors association chairman. Tom Harkin 52 occupation Iowa . Senator. Key asset aggressively campaigning As traditional Liberal Democrat May Appeal to party activists who Are most Likely to participate in caucuses and primaries. Key liability hot Campaign style and Liberal positions May turn off moderate voters. Prospects big win in Home state caucus has helped but still trailing in polls. Education Iowa state Catholic University. Family married two children. Biographical highlights Navy Pilot Legal Aid lawyer . Representative. First Democrat elected to two full . Senate terms in Iowa Bob Kerrey 48 occupation Nebraska . Senator. Key asset wounded Vietnam Veteran with anti War political record May strike chord with baby Boomers. Key liability having difficulty giving Clear focus to Campaign. Prospects in the Middle of the pack. Education University of Nebraska. Family divorced two children. Biographical highlights won medal of Honor As Navy Seal in Vietnam where he lost his right leg below the knee. Helped develop Chain of restaurants and fitness centers. Nebraska governor . Senator. Paul Tsongas 50 occupation lawyer Kay assist campaigning As pro business Liberal who knows How to Spur the Economy. Kay Lia Billias unexciting Campaign style leaves him unknown to rank and file voters outside of new England. Suffers from comparison to Quot the other greek from  Michael Dukakis. Pros Acta coming on Strong now the front runner in new Hampshire. Education Dartmouth Harvard Yale family married three children. Biographical highlights peace corps Volunteer City councilman county commissioner  representative and senator cancer survivor they re off picking the president drawn to politics perhaps we can answer your primary questions a Pargh polls pundits and politicians. Delegations nominations and conventions. What a a person to make of it All pulitzer prize winning cartoonist Mike Peters has come to the Rescue. Peters and the staff at the Dayton Ohio daily news have developed this guide to the Campaign for the presidential nominations. 11 it Republican president George Rush seemed unbeatable just a few months ago. Rut the Economy is sliding and democrats Are gaining Confidence. By the time the democrats get to final contests in Early june one will probably have emerged with enough delegates to win the right to oppose Rush. What they spend Federal Law allows each candidate to spend $32.4 million in the nomination campaigns. That includes $13.5 million in Federal funds each candidate can receive to match individual contributions of $250 or less. A Bush s weaknesses became Clear the Field of democratic challengers grew. The experts View five As leading candidates. 12 a eleven states hold primaries and caucuses on March 10. 11 a serious campaigning began in the dead of Winter when the candidates packed their polls Money and message and shuffled off to new Hampshire. I the democrats will compete in state primary elections and party caucuses that will decide which one gets to oppose Bush in the nov. J general election. A a Uthe president is even being challenged within his own party by two candidates who charge he has betrayed conservative causes. They Are called a dark horses Quot who Are unlikely to win. How they get nominated the democratic and Republican presidential nominees Are chosen by National convention delegates. Delegates Are chosen by a variety of methods. Some become delegates because of the party or government offices they hold. Most Are chosen in primaries and caucuses and most Are pledged to support specific presidential candidates. Primary voters cast secret ballots. Caucuses Are open meetings where participants sometimes Are required to make their candidate preferences Public. Polls can make or break the candidate. The press uses them to help determine the front runner. 14 a delegates and leading Demoi rats will go to a pc w York in july to formally name their candidate. Though they fought in the primaries they Wilt unite and try to persuade the nation that Rush has done a had Job. A a candidates use the Money to buy television advertising and to hire Campaign workers and consultants to make them look Good to voters. A each democratic candidate will do everything he can to get the Media to bestow on him the coveted title of  one big decision for the convention is picking a vice presidential candidate. H ill she be a woman ? w ill he be Black ? or will he be a texan Stosh 9 campaigning for the presidency takes lots of Money so candidates ask for contributions from Rich people and from organizations with special interests. And from Little people with their own interests f 0 a the democrats will do everything they can to tie the president to the nations slumping Economy. They will also criticize each other s ideas for fixing it. 16 a the republicans will have their party in August. Bush will probably be renominated. The general election race begins. The contenders Rapuet Means George Bush 67. Occupation president key asset Power of presidency. Key liability the nation s economic woes prospects front runner to win it All education Yale family married five children biographical highlight a shot Down As world War ii Navy Pilot. Two decades in Texas Oil business. U s representative in ambassador gop National chairman Liaison to China. Cia director vice president. Patrick Buchanan. 53 occupation Media commentator key asset articulate conservative key liability rhetoric can Acara voters. Prospects Long shot. Depend on unhappiness with Economy. Bush s focus on foreign a lairs and Compromise of conservative positions education Georgetown Columbia. Family married no children. Biographical highlights editorial writer aide in Nixon and Ford White houses communications director for Reagan David Duka 41 occupation political activist. Kay asset taps fears and frustrations of some White working and Middle class voters key liability past links to Kun flux klan and nazis Lack of Campaign organization. Prospects can t win gop nomination could be a nuisance As an Independent education High school graduate family divorced two children. Biographical highlights National association for the advancement of White people president Kun flux klan grand wizard Louisiana state representative won a Onty of White vote in losing races for Louisiana governor and . Senator. Key dates along Way feb. 18 new Hampshire primary the first real contest in this years Campaign no one has been elected president without winning the new Hampshire primary since it took its modern lorm in 1952. March 3 Georgia is the first Southern primary March 7 South Carolina is Duke s first primary. March 10 super tuesday. Contests in Texas Florida Louisiana Mississippi and other states these states will Send 882 democratic delegates and 500 Republican delegates to the conventions March 17 Michigan and Illinois primaries the democratic nomination might be decided Here in the Industrial heartland. April 7 new York primary april 28 Pennsylvania primary May 5 primaries in Ohio Indiana and North Carolina. June 2 California and new Jersey primaries july 13-16 democratic National convention in new York total of 4,287 Delegate votes 2,144 needed of win nomination. Aug. 17-20 Republican National convention in Houston total of 2,206 Delegate votes 1,104 needed to nominate nov. 3 general election Day onto november Page 14 b the stars and stripes j monday february 17, 1992 the stars and stripes b Page 15