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NATION, Page 33Campaign NotesTHE SENATEStorming the Club
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.
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.