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In the end the Democrats must run somebody -- and they will. Not long ago, a retired Senator walked into the office of Robert Strauss, former Democratic chairman, and urged him to announce his candidacy. Strauss, 71, declared himself too old. The prominent whisper now is that the Democrats should field the soothingly sensible Bentsen as a sacrificial lamb and put Kerrey beside him to position the Nebraskan for the big Quayle bash in '96. Trouble is that neither Bentsen nor Kerrey has said he would go along with the plan. It may be a while before Dave Yepsen sees anything on his far horizons but Washington's trial balloons.