Word: clevelandism
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...Cleveland 13, Buffalo...
Mondale was undaunted. To his aides, he insisted that the large and buoyant audiences he had been attracting all week were not "loser's crowds." He simply did not believe the polls. He went out the next morning in Cleveland and shouted to a cheering rally of 5,000 people: "The victory march begins here. I can feel it. We're going to win." By week's end, however, he was on the defensive, denying reports that Johnson had told him that Reagan's lead was insurmountable. He was obviously hoping to head off a stream...
...good, that society has a duty to care for its weak and poor and dispossessed. Rising at 5 a.m., hitting three or four states a day, drawing large, enthusiastic crowds (20,000 in Philadelphia, 15,000 in Ann Arbor), Mondale seemed strangely liberated. He quieted thousands jammed into a Cleveland shopping arcade by quoting John Winthrop, the 17th century Puritan who envisioned a shining "city upon a hill." Mondale emphasized Winthrop's words: "We must bear one another's burdens, we must rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer together, we must be knit together by a bond...
...family, it's the men who do most of the talking against having a woman Vice President. But hillbilly women stick together, you know what I mean? As my momma always said, 'The thread gets very thin, but don't ever give up.' " A Cleveland policeman guarding the desolate shopping area says, "Ferraro is one hell of a lady. I just wish we could have Reagan with her." A surprising number of people, men and women, talk about that as a good ticket, "combining the strongest candidates in a kind of symbolic resolution of deeply divisive...
...Orleans 16, Cleveland...