Word: alabama
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...drawn up a firm list of pivotal states. Before the convention, their battle map was the reverse of Reagan's: sweep the industrial Northeast and Midwest, which have become the new Democratic heartland, then pick off a few big Western or, more likely, Southern states. Lance mentions Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and Florida as possibilities, and adds, "We have to win Texas to be elected...
There are some early signs that the Democrats' strategy of broadening the gender gap into a chasm may be effective. In Virginia, after Ferraro's selection, women workers in day care centers began asking every parent to register and vote. In Alabama, Mondale campaign headquarters logged within hours 65 calls from women volunteers. But how widespread will this phenomenon be, how long will it last and to what ex- tent might it be offset by a backlash among men and more traditionalist women...
...Hampshire primary (he had risen from a mere 3% following among Democrats nationally just a month earlier) shattered the notion that an invincible Mondale machine would crush all opposition early. After a string of Hart wins in New England, Mondale had doggedly fought his way back with victories in Alabama and Georgia on Super Tuesday I. Then he seized Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania, setting up another knockout chance on Super Tuesday II. Yet the equally dogged Hart had jolted pollsters once more, winning in Ohio and Indiana. Early on Wednesday morning, Mondale's strategists found the reports from California...
...leaders, to ask them to stand by for a call from Mondale. The candidate, refreshed and unshaken by the reports from California, turned on his powers of persuasion. He made some 50 telephone calls, reaching such party luminaries as Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg and Alabama Governor George Wallace. The unstated threat: Mondale was certain to win, and late arrivals on the bandwagon were less likely to be remembered favorably by the candidate. About 40 recipients of the Mondale message took it seriously enough to join...
...Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Missouri, Oregon, West Virginia...