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...aides insist that the issues-the deficit, the arms race, "fairness" - favor their man and that he understands better than the President the complexities of running the Government. "Public opinion is going to force the Reagan camp out of the photo-opportunity, nondebate strategy," says Mondale Campaign Manager Robert Beckel. "If Reagan will stop ducking and running, I think you'll see that style is overtaken by substance and that the American people are pretty smart." Last week the two camps agreed to at least one Mondale-Reagan debate, and possibly more...
...damage was not as great as it would have been had the Ferraro episode occurred closer to the election. "It's better to lose time in August than in September," says Mondale Campaign Manager Bob Beckel. "That's when the punching and counterpunching matter. That's when people start to focus...
...that, some Democrats express hope that the whole affair will work to the advantage of their ticket. Beckel insists that because Ferraro showed so much spunk under fire, "this netted out as a political plus." One senior strategist asserts that Ferraro's performance instilled in campaign workers across the country a fighting spirit that "sometimes turns certain defeats into victories...
...last week Mondale strategists were insisting that with the selection of Ferraro and the national exposure she received during the convention, all bets are off. "These overnight polls are incredible!" exclaimed Campaign Manager Robert Beckel at midday Friday as he examined charts spread out on a table at the Meridien, Mondale's headquarters hotel in San Francisco. Campaign Chairman James Johnson, studying the same figures, said that "tracking" polls showed a rise in the popularity of the ticket every night of the convention, with an especially sharp jump of 10 to 15 points after the nominees' acceptance speeches...
...eagle-feather episode was merely a minor diversion in comparison with what one Mondale strategist says "is still the No. 1 problem around the convention": Jackson's role. Mondale Campaign Manager Robert Beckel detected a cooperative mood during a three-hour private dinner over ribs with Jackson in Kansas City Monday night, and after the two candidates met for two hours the next day, they sounded warily friendly. Jackson handed Mondale a list of black and Hispanic women who, he said, should be considered as potential Vice Presidents. More substantive, Jackson pledged that "together we will prevail in November...