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They hit the state like Barnum & Bailey and then fold their tents in the dead of caucus night...
Mondale had good reason to avoid offending labor. Union support will be a net plus in the Iowa caucuses, where voters must go out into the winter night to meetings that can last up to three hours. With apathy running high, a good organization is necessary to turn out voters. In addition, because voting is open at the caucus meetings, union shop stewards can cast a watchful eye on their members. One union alone, the National Education Association, hopes to produce 7,000 of the 100,000 voters expected to turn out for the Iowa caucuses...
...Caucus results will not be known until sometime next week
Actually, there was no clear winner or loser-unless, as some leading Democrats lamented, it was President Reagan. The debate, sponsored by the House Democratic Caucus, was held on the snow-covered New Hampshire campus of Dartmouth College. For the first 1 Vi hours, all the candidates responded to the evenhanded questioning of ABC Newsman Ted Koppel (see PRESS) with measured campaign statements. In the second 1½ hours, most were goaded into sharper exchanges by Donahue, who hopped about with his microphone soliciting questions from the audience and throwing in some zingers...
Republican Senate Caucus Chairman Ken Maddy observed that the new proposals "will not placate the Democrats, but they do pre-empt them." Although his 1984-85 budget seems sure to pass, Deukmejian faces skirmishes down the road over his penny-pinching attitude toward entitlement programs. Senate Democratic Leader David Roberti grumbles, "The Governor hasn't shown much movement for the elderly and the poor...