Word: coloradan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week in Wisconsin, Hart narrowly won a "beauty contest" popular vote on Tuesday, but lost the actual delegate selection at the party caucuses on Saturday, by 2 to 1. Of the remaining 1,601 delegates to be chosen after this week, almost a third-563-are from Western states. Coloradan Hart expects to "do well" in such forums as his home state on May 7, Oregon...
...concentrated among traditional Democrats: union members, lower-income voters, those blacks who have not joined the Jackson camp (Hart's voters, so far, have been almost exclusively white). But even some fervent Democrats, noting Hart's appeal to independents, are finding a new reason to choose the Coloradan. Says Reno Electrician Gary Willis: "If you're a Democrat, the key question is, Who can beat Reagan? Who can turn the voters out? People don't think that Mondale...
...Hart's success on Tuesday evening. Using a convoluted train metaphor, he opened his report by noting that Hart's candidacy "keeps moving like a fast freight," adding that Mondale's "is off the side rails and is moving forward again." In his interview with the Coloradan, he asked, "In your heart of hearts, you now believe you have the Democratic nomination, don't you?" (Hart's answer: "No.") His question for Mondale: "If your candidacy is still alive, it's hanging on the ropes?" (Mondale's answer: "No.") CBS's newscast...
...freeze. Mondale made a tub-thumping speech in Tampa suggesting that Hart is for "Big Oil" and "the hospital lobby," that he "attacks entitlements" and that he would force "working families to pay more taxes." (At a 1979 Senate campaign fund raiser for Hart, Mondale had extravagantly praised the Coloradan. "Gary Hart is one of the most decent and compassionate public servants I have ever known in my life. He is brilliant...thoughtful and perceptive...
...biggest and most cosmopolitan of the southern states also figures to be Hart's best bet. Hart supporters and some observers say the Coloradan will pick up about 75 percent of delegates supporting former Florida Gov. Reubin O. Askew, though one Mondale organizer there calls that figure "bullshit." Askew's former campaign manager has also moved into Hart's camp. Hart should also profit from the lack of any real organized labor in the state, says John Harwood, political reporter for the St. Petersburg Times. Harwood calls Florida "really a bunch of city states, a state that's really fragmented...