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...Sauk Centre. Gopher Prairie was drawn as smug, suspicious and stuck in its ways, and that was a liberating vision for a newly urban America about to plunge into the jazz age. Main Street became a metaphor for a certain kind of narrow-minded, self-satisfied, credulous America; Lewis' Babbitt and Elmer Gantry completed the picture. In 1930, when Lewis became the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sauk Centre's role as national small-town bellwether was set for good...
...counted more than 40 elected officials as potential participants at the start of last week, only 23 would let their names be included in a formal list of members that the group issued a few days later. At week's end Robb, Jim Blanchard of Michigan, and Bruce Babbitt of Arizona were the only Governors remaining of ten whose names had appeared on preliminary lists (among the dropouts: Bob Graham of Florida, Bill Clinton of Arkansas, Richard Lamm of Colorado). Ohio Congresswoman Mary Rose Oakar announced that she would have nothing to do with the council, even though...
...with the national party image. One example: in a number of states, popular Democratic Governors would seem to have the best chance of defeating Republican Senators who will be running for re-election in 1986, but the Governors are reluctant to try. Fred DuVal, an adviser to Arizona's Babbitt, explains that a Governor can present himself to voters as being independent, but "when you run for the Senate you can count on losing eight to ten points (in popularity) just because you become identified with the national party." Chiles asserts bluntly that he won three Senate races in Florida...
Once again, the West was a monolith for the Republicans. To Westerners, Reagan rides tall in the saddle. Mondale, on the other hand, "is the perfect reflection of the left wing of the Democratic Party," says Arizona's Democratic Governor Bruce Babbitt. Mondale thought he had an outside chance of picking off the President's home state, California, by forging a coalition of women, Hispanics, blacks and supporters of a nuclear freeze. He hoped that Reagan's embrace of Moral Majority Leader Jerry Falwell would not sit well in a state known for its liberal lifestyle...
...struggling to shape the spirit and ideology of the party, if not perhaps to win its 1988 nomination. Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy will probably carry the flickering old liberal flame. Others have positioned themselves as potential leaders of the new breed. Among Governors, these include Lamm of Colorado, Bruce Babbitt of Arizona, Bob Kerrey of Nebraska and Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. In the Senate there are Bumpers of Arkansas and Joseph Biden of Delaware...