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...been a cake-walk-so far. He has raised almost twice as much money as his nearest competitor. The AFL-CIO, the United Auto Workers, the National Education Association and the National Organization for Women all support him. So do Tip O'Neill, Robert Strauss, perhaps 100 members of the House, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, Detroit Mayor Coleman Young. Concedes a top strategist: "The worst Pollyanna in our bunch wouldn't have been able to predict last December that we would...
...early make-or-break primaries and caucuses, labor's manpower means more to Mondale's well-heeled campaign than money. In Iowa, for example, the AFL-CIO has some 100,000 members, a number roughly equal to the anticipated turnout in the caucuses. The national headquarters of the labor group has sent 35 organizers to the state to direct the drive to win delegates for Mondale. Using telephone banks, a direel-mail campaign and union newsletters, the leaders expect to reach all of the membership with pro-Mondale appeals. The U.A.W. will try to persuade...
...Hampshire is a less unionized state. But even there, the state AFL-CIO'S membership list of 37,000 is a fertile field for harvesting Mondale votes. Last month some 60 union volunteers kept eleven phone banks manned throughout the state, soliciting help for the Minnesotan. AFL-CIO Field Representative Charlie Stott estimates that 15,000 of the roughly 110,000 people expected to vote in New Hampshire will be members of the AFL-CIO. This kind of union activity can be duplicated in almost any state where Mondale needs the labor push. Glenn's aides said last...
...pressure from teacher lobbying groups, especially the National Educational Association (NEA), which endorsed Mondale last fall. The NEA endorsement is more than a more stamp of approval for Mondale's platform: it carries with it the promise of campaign workers nationwide and a organization that rivals the AFL-CIO, another group that has backed the Minnesotan...
Networks and advertisers, too, see home taping as something akin to a biblical curse. Argues AFL-CIO Executive Jack Golodner, who represents TV and film performers and technicians: "Take The Wizard of Oz, which is shown every year on television. If 40 to 50 million people have taped it, what sponsor would want to buy time on another broadcast?" But it is the fast-forward button that has advertisers most agitated, for with it, says Valenti, viewers can "assassinate" commercials while either taping programs or playing them back. Says Richard Kostyra, senior vice president at J. Walter Thompson, the mammoth...