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- NATION, Page 33Campaign NotesTHE SENATEStorming the Club
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- Alan Dixon didn't know it at the time, but his support of
- Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas last fall would help
- derail his 42-year political career. Like many women around the
- country, Carol Moseley Braun was outraged at how the white,
- clubby, male-dominated Senate handled Anita Hill's
- sexual-harassment charges against Thomas. Braun decided to do
- something about it. Last week the 44-year-old Cook County
- recorder of deeds beat Dixon and lawyer Al Hofeld for the
- Democratic nomination.
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- Braun's low-budget, grass-roots movement benefited from
- Hofeld's slick $5 million campaign, which attacked Dixon as a
- backslapping political hack. While Hofeld and Dixon split the
- white male vote, Braun edged past them, with strong support from
- blacks and women providing the margin of victory. If she wins
- the general election against Republican Richard Williamson, 42,
- a former Reagan Administration official, Braun will become the
- first black woman ever elected to the U.S. Senate.
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