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<title>
Aug. 06, 1990: Oh, Great. More Bulls in Politics.
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Aug. 06, 1990 Just Who Is David Souter?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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GRAPEVINE, Page 13
Oh, Great. More Bulls in Politics.
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<p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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<p> In one of their wearier metaphors, commentators often talk
of a politician's stock rising or falling during a campaign;
at the Iowa City campus of the University of Iowa, politicians'
stocks are actually rising and falling. Four faculty members--three economists and a political scientist--have opened
a computer-driven stock market in which the only two issues
available are Democratic Senator Tom Harkin and his Republican
challenger Tom Tauke. (Because the university draws students
from neighboring Illinois, shares in Paul Simon and his G.O.P.
opponent Lynn Martin will soon be available.) Investors can buy
a bundled issue, a minimum of one share each in Harkin and
Tauke, for $2. Or they can go into the open market and buy
shares in either candidate; at the moment, Harkin is trading
at $1.20 and Tauke at 80 cents. Do these price fluctuations
have any bearing on the November outcome? The same faculty
group set up a market for the 1988 presidential race; the day
before the election, prices indicated a preference for Bush
shares by a margin of 7.6%--almost exactly his edge in the
nationwide popular vote.
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