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...insignificant that the high point of Mr. Mondale's campaign thus far came when he appropriated a now legendary line from a Wendy's hamburger commercial. The cry of "Where's the Beef?" was no surprise, coming as it did from a man who had already told the AFL-CIO that they deserved a break, but silly slogans can't build a Presidential image. It is overall perceptions that make a difference, and Mondale's images is decidedly Quaker Oats with an electorate that seems to gravitate toward Frosted Flakes. What's inside may be good...
...lesson that politicians should learn from Mondale's experience is that voters normally expect the unions to endorse the Democratic candidate. But to accept labor's beneficence even before the show begins is to accept identification with the political objectives of the AFL-CIO. It presents Mondale as a one-issue, class-oriented candidate...
...South was not just fun and games. The candidates tended to their big-picture strategies too. For Glenn, said his aide Boyd Campbell, Alabama was "the goal-line stand, the whole ball of wax." Mondale predicted he would win unionized Alabama (214,000 AFL-CIO members), where the Mondale family has campaigned in 63 of 67 counties, and was also hoping to finish first in Georgia. In the South, Hart might be satisfied to win only Florida. Jesse Jackson's biggest test had arrived: if he does not do well in Southern states where blacks constitute...
...young people, and conduct more neighborhood walking tours and make more appearances at factory gates. Campaign Chairman James Johnson says there will be a corresponding drop in "institutional" appearances, presumably including speeches at labor rallies, though no one will say so. Mondale is proud of his endorsement by the AFL-CIO, but his identification with Big Labor has been a prime target of attacks by Hart and Glenn, and in New Hampshire at least it seems to have lost more votes than it gained...
...avoid going belly up. In a 9-to-0 opinion, the court ruled that a company that has filed for bankruptcy can cancel a union contract, cut wages and lay off workers without having to prove that the pact would cause the company to go completely broke. Declared AFL-CIO Special Counsel Laurence Gold: "The ruling obviously enhances the opportunity for union busting...