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...Moines Register survey of Democrats showed that the only real beneficiary was "undecided," which went up twelve points while Hart lost nine. The other seven who have been campaigning there -- Jackson, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, Illinois Senator Paul Simon, former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore -- made negligible gains or none at all. Among Democrats and independents questioned in a national TIME survey, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, a non-candidate, ran second to Hart and well ahead of anyone else. When Hart supporters were asked whom they would...
...ready, at least in terms of well-honed views and organization, is Babbitt. Like Hart, Babbitt has a position -- and a policy paper to prove it -- on everything. Desperate to score in Iowa, Babbitt in late April became the first to run television ads there. Because he is still a stranger in Washington, Babbitt has fared poorly in the underground primary...
Hart is the third candidate to formally join the Democratic Presidential competition, joining former Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt and Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri...
These themes are being stressed by Democratic candidates, including Gary Hart, Bruce Babbitt, Joseph Biden, Richard Gephardt and Jesse Jackson. "When Rhodes scholars are arrested for insider trading, that contributes to this populist sentiment that a privileged class is getting rich at the expense of the rest of the economy," Babbitt says. Like most Democratic candidates, Babbitt is careful to focus his attacks on Wall Street and Big Business, as opposed to entrepreneurial and family businesses...
Gephardt often cites the successful Japanese management of American workers at the General Motors plant in Fremont, Calif. He wonders whether U.S. industrial failures should not be attributed to American managers rather than American workers (despite high U.S. wages compared with some of America's competitors). Babbitt adds that unlike Japanese managers, who often cut their own compensation before that of their workers, "American executives reward + themselves with huge bonuses during the good times but console themselves with layoffs as soon as times turn...