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A6 THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW and SPOKANE CHRONICLE Tuesday, Feb 18. 1992, Spokane, Wash CONTINUED: FROM A1 Heres a reality check for political pundits was much poorer, more rural and less edu cated than the rest of the country. The people who will vote on Super Tues day March 10 watch the same television programs, eat in the same chain restaurants and work at or have been laid off from the same kinds of jobs as the rest of the country. Never say never. There is nothing that cant happen.

A month ago one of the things that couldn't happen was Tsongas winning in New Hampshire. Now that seems likely. In this business, things that cant happen quite regularly occur. As for Tsongas, no one can know whether he is electable until there is an election. Considering that he is now favored to win the first election, todays New Hampshire primary, calling him unelectable seems absurd on its face.

Forget delegate slates, filing deadlines and the like. This is politics, not arithmetic. If the voters of either party prefer a candidate, they and he will find a way to get him nominated. Dont exaggerate Southern peculiarity. The South does have its regional eccentricities.

So do New England and the Rockies. But Dixie is a lot less different than when it By Jon Margolis Chicago Tribune MANCHESTER, N.H. A messy, uncontrollable and confusing development in the 1992 presidential campaign takes place today: People will vote. Before people vote, ANALYSIS anybody calling himself a political expert can speculate without regard to reality. And many do.

Starting tonight, these speculations will have to deal with some reality, small dose though it may be. What follows is an effort to increase that dose. Call it a consumer protection warning designed to insulate con sumers citizens from fraudulent labeling. Forget the word, which this year is electability. According to many experts it was his supposed electablity that made Arkansas Gov.

Bill Clinton the Democratic front-runner for a while, and it is Paul Tsongas lack thereof that will eventually do in the former senator from Massachusetts. Not hardly. New Hampshire voters are citizens, not strategists. They preferred Clinton not because they found him the most electable but because they found him the most appealing of the five Democrats. Now theyre not so sure.

Ay I Dixville Notch goes Libertarian in first vote of 92 primaries Aunriatnl Prew tJon ni Vwm fiv Associated Press and closed them five minutes today later. State law requires that polls open from 1 1 a.m. to 7 p.m. unless all registered voters vote earlier. Results from Dixville Notch are in the morning newspapers and on radio and television before the rest of the state gets to the polls, making the support of Dixvilles 18 Republicans, four Democrats and nine independents prized.

Marrou, the only candidate to attend the voting, was elated. This was much better than we expected, Marrou said. It will be the party of the 21st century. Although its tiny and nestled into the snowy White Mountains not far from the Canadian border, Dixville Notch, population 38, exists because of the Balsams Grand Resort hotel, which accounts for most visitors. DIXVILLE NOTCH, N.H.

Libertarian candidate Andre Marrou, overlooked during the campaign, polled 11 votes as this tiny hamlet cast its 31 votes, the nations first votes in New Hampshires leadoff presidential primary. Among the Republican candidates, President Bush beat challenger Pat Buchanan, 9 to 3, while consumer advocate Ralph Nader received three write-in votes. Among the Democratic candidates, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton had three votes and former Massachusetts Sen. Paul Tsongas got two votes.

As they have since 1964, the 31 voters here gathered to cast the first votes in New Hampshires leadoff presidential primary. Capitalizing on a quirk in state election law, they opened the polls at 12:01 a.m. EST New Hampshire backed Bush in 1988 but voted absentee for Buchanan. I think he has lied to us and hell say anything to get elected. Most analysts agree that if Bush fails to defeat Buchanan by a 2-1- ratio, enabling Buchanan to carry his challenge onto other states, the president could be vulnerable in the fall, sharing the fate of such other one-term presidents as Jimmy Carter and Gerald R.

Ford. On the Democratic side, voters here will settle an array of questions, beginning with the electability of former Sen. Paul Tsongas of Massachusetts and Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton. Many question whether Tsongas popularity can extend beyond New England and whether Clinton can overcome tabloid newspaper allegations of infidelity and reports that he had manipulated the Selective Service System to avoid the draft.

Polls predict that Tsongas will win easily, perhaps beating the 1988 performance of Michael Dukakis, who collected 38 percent of the vote in a similarly crowded field. Clinton appears locked in a solid second place after questions about his character surfaced. Now, said University of Rhode Island professor Patrick Devlin, the questions are: Can Clinton get out of here with respectability and does Tsongas have any legs? Tsongas rise in the polls has come through the backing of many independents, who can vote in either primary today. Many appreciate what they say is his candor about the tough remedies needed to Solve the countrys economic woes. Jehanne Arslan, 40, a real estate investment consultant from Plaistow and former Bush voter, said she is backing Tsongas because he has really good ideas.

Bush, she said, has no backbone; he has no ideas. Clinton, as he has for a week, scrambled through an 18-hour day hoping to roar out of here to his base in the South, much of which votes in early March. But some voters continued to have doubts about Clinton. Said Debbie Martin, 38, a homemaker in Strat-ham: If someone comes off good on TV and looks like a pretty boy, I dont like him. Tsongas is not a pretty boy, and so I listen to him.

The race for third place has its own dramatic elements. For five weeks, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa and Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska have remained locked within a point or two in virtually every poll. Historically, candidates who fail to make the top three in New Hampshire have found it difficult to make inroads in future primaries.

That could be especially true this year, with both Kerrey and Harkin representing the nations heartland. Kerrey found grim humor in the situation. At a dinner party Saturday, he told of two hunters who found themselves in a woods with a grizzly bear on the loose. When one stopped to lace up his sneakers, the other said no human could outrun the bear. I know that, Kerrey quoted the first hunter as saying, but I can outrun you.

Harkin said he would press on if he failed to finish third. Former California Gov. Jerry Brown, mired in fifth place, could soldier on for months on his low-budget campaign. CONTINUED: FROM A1 AP photo The industrial-strength Ratapult launches a test mouse through the air in a single-exposure photo made with a strobe light in Oakland, Calif. CONTINUED: FROM A1 Ratapult Migrants Although the harvesting work pays $9.33 an hour, its too physically demanding for most people, and those who stay cant keep up with production standards, he said.

The migrants are legal aliens and have just as great a right to work in this country as anyone does, Zaharie said. Despite Kiesbuys claims, he said migrants earn the same salary as locals and are not abused as cheap labor. A lot of people are making a big deal out of nothing when theyre not willing to get out there and do the work themselves, he said. Coeur dAlene resident Gloria Culver said she signed the petition because the poor economy has left many of her friends in the lurch. We need the people here to have the jobs," she said.

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