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These changes have also rendered the traditional campaign tome largely obsolete. With tempestuous demographic and geographic upheavals in progress--i.e. Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, the fundamentalist Right, the Sun Belt majority--campaigns today are roughly analogous to surfing. Catch your demographic wave and hang on for the ride. The story of the Hart campaign was not how he won the New Hampshire primary, but how he failed to take advantage of the electoral groundswell in his favor. The story of Alan Cranston's failure was not his ridiculous one-note (later two-note) campaign, but the utter lack...
...steady money growth as a way of guarding against inflation. A leading contender in this camp is Wayne Angell, an economics professor at Ottawa University in Kansas. Angell, whose nomination has been urged by Kansas Senator Robert Dole, has a firsthand understanding of the credit crunch in the farm belt. He is a part-time farmer, and, together with his brother, owns a small bank in Pleasanton, Kans., and a second in Hume...
...primary elections last fall, charging that the accused used the names of incapacitated and illiterate nursing- home patients on absentee ballots. Although three of the defendants have already been acquitted, the black mayor of Union, Ala., went on trial last week in Birmingham. The anger in Alabama's black belt is palpable. Randall Williams, a director of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, contends that whites who commit voter fraud go unprosecuted. Says he: "This is clearly a one-sided investigation...
...street fighter in Falwell still shows through. Six feet tall, a big man with a waistline that rides over his belt, he walks right up to anti- Falwell demonstrators and pumps their hands. He usually wears dark suits and shoes and always carries a Bible. His deep, booming voice dominates all encounters. Up every morning at 6 after only five hours' sleep, he reads from Scripture for about an hour. Falwell does no exercise, watches little television except for boxing and TV news and spends hours on the phone. He has a surface knowledge of history, philosophy and even...
...Wonks High School of Science. I must admit that the school was full of wonks and what some would call geeks. Hell, we didn't even have a football team. I will even admit that for two full years, I carried around a TI 57 on my belt. The problem, however, wasn't that I came from a school designed to produce besnectacled future Engineers of America. It was that, since my early acceptance to Harvard in December, I had prepared myself exclusively to deal with the future yuppies of America. And boy, was I in for a shocker...