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Mondale automatically inherits the front-runner spot, though that is not necessarily the best place to be nearly two years before the actual election. He seems the likely recipient of Kennedy's strength in the industrial states and of an endorsement from the powerful AFL-CIO, which might unite behind a single candidate before the first 1984 primary, something that was not likely as long as both Kennedy and Mondale were running. For the Democratic Party as a whole, there is a discernible feeling of liberation: many party managers around the country note, with an almost palpable sense...
...even while evincing such optimism, the two parties have continued to circle each other warily. A proposal to index Social Security to the wage level rather than the consumer price index--which rose in 1980 twice as fast as wages--came immediately under fire from the AFL-CIO and from the American Association of Retired Persons. In retaliation. Dole demanded recently that the Democrats present the first reform package in the upcoming session...
Midwestern Democrats nonetheless scored some big victories. Marcy Kaptur astonished her own party by winning almost 59% of the vote in a Toledo district that had voted 56% for Republican Ed Weber only two years ago. One reason: the Toledo AFL-CIO hired some of the district's jobless blue-collar workers to make 30,000 phone calls on her behalf. South Dakota lost one of its two House seats to redistricting, forcing Incumbents Clint Roberts, a Republican who represented the conservative, ranching western part of the state, and Thomas Daschle, a Democrat who represented the more liberal, farming...
...Moffett's strategy has had mixed results. Some liberal groups, like the National Organization for Women, have endorsed both candidates. Others, such as the AFL-CIO, are supporting neither. The Democrat clearly has favor with Blacks and students, two of Connecticut's significant constituent groups. But at the same time, he cannot risk placing himself too much to Weicker's left. A former disciple of consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Moffett has had problems in the past with his own party's bosses, and, against a surprisingly well-funded Weicker, he needs all the support...
...UNTIL RECENTLY, Stevenson's campaign was so lackluster that Thompson could escape almost all flak for his foibles. Even the traditionally Democratic AFL-CIO only reluctantly bucked his candidacy, and a significant bloc of labor leaders defected to endorse Thompson, saying the pro-Stevenson APL-CIO backing "didn't really reflect the feeling of large numbers of working people." So it wasn't surprising that the restful and resourceful Thompson, who is everything on the stamp that the professional Stevenson is not, stepped in to set the agenda for the contest...