The Underground Primary Begins

As big-name Democrats sit it out, Tsongas and Wilder -- that's right, Tsongas and Wilder -- are running for President

When Paul Tsongas arrived in Iowa last week to explain why he should be President, he expected a friendly reception. The former Massachusetts Senator was, at that point, the only Democrat to have established a campaign exploratory committee, the first step in making a run for the White House. "It's like Economics 101," said Tsongas. "There's an enormous demand for a candidate out there and at the moment I'm the only supply." But Tsongas' monopoly disappeared only two days later, when Governor Douglas Wilder of & Virginia announced that he, too, had registered a 1992 fund-raising group with the Federal Election...

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