Word: beckel
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Mondale will be trying to keep the pressure high. His aides are under no illusions that he did much more than survive last week's contests. Asked what would have happened if Mondale had lost Georgia to Hart, as he came close to doing, Campaign Manager Robert Beckel squeezed an imaginary golf club, sighted down an imaginary fairway and intoned: "Boca Raton, about 290 yards, par four." But the Mondale camp could point to exit polls showing that in several of last week's primaries, voters who made their choice in the final few days mostly went...
Mondale uses the question to suggest that Gary Hart's policy ideas, while impressive sounding, lack substance. Mondale's campaign manager, Robert Beckel, urged the candidate to use the slogan during the Atlanta debate a week ago Sunday. "When I hear about your new ideas," Mondale told Hart, "I'm reminded of the ad 'Where's the beef?' " The audience cracked up, and Mondale took the slogan out on the hustings, more than once using a hamburger bun as a prop...
...Beckel predicted. "Hart won't do well in the South or in the industrial states...
...Robert Beckel, Mondale's national campaign manager, credited Hart with "having the perfect ways," adding that Hart profited from weakness in the rest of the field...
...believe our potential here was between 30 and 40 percent," Beckel said, "and we didn't expect Glenn would do as badly as he did in Iowa...