Volunteers, senior campaign staffers and Harkinhimself vigorously denied that he would considerdropping out, saying that the candidate expects astronger showing in the Midwest and the South.
"Do I look like someone who's going to tuck histail and run?" Harkin said. "No way."
And Dawn Sweitzer, a senior adviser to theHarkin campaign, attacked Tsongas, Clinton andKerrey, all of whom finished ahead of Harkin.
Sweitzer called Tsongas' platform "warmed-overReaganomics," said Clinton would suffer in theSouth over the draft issue and sharply criticizedthe Kerrey campaign.
"We have an underpinning of support that BobKerrey doesn't have," Sweitzer said. "We can takea punch, but one solid punch and he goes down."
As for former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown,he called his fifthplace finish a victory forgrass-roots politics.
"This is a testament to the people of NewHampshire, taking back their own democracy," Brownsaid.