Word: colorado
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...decisive showdown of the campaign. Mondale initially figured to deliver knockout blows to all those rivals who survived the opening primaries and caucuses. Later, after Hart followed up his victory in New Hampshire with a string of quick triumphs in other early contests, it seemed just possible that the Colorado Senator might win enough votes during the week to leave the Mondale campaign hanging paralyzed on the ropes...
Baby Boomers are stronger in the prosperous states they tend to migrate to, like Florida and Colorado, than in the industrial states they left behind, like Pennsylvania and Ohio, both of which have important primaries coming up. In the long term, the 77 million people born between 1946 and 1964-one-third of the U.S. population-could be an extremely potent force. "The group is so big that it represents a real opportunity for a candidate or even a whole party to create an entirely new governing coalition with as much stability as the old New Deal coalition," says Republican...
...Americans, Western conservatives and Eastern liberals, clean-cut Jaycees and long-haired factory workers, seemed to fall head over heels for the concept of Gary Hart. For a year he had been one more dark horse in a forgettable pack of dark horses, a sleek but uninspiring Senator from Colorado. His campaign of "new ideas" went nowhere. Walter Mondale, the shoo-in, treated him like an earnest graduate assistant...
...informal Crimson exit poll of 40 Harvard students yesterday afternoon showed Colorado Democrat Hart in the lead with 45 percent of the vote. McGovern followed, with 20 percent, while Mondale, Rev Jesse Jackson, and Reagan each received 10 percent of the student vote surveyed...
Mondale has also been a longstanding critic of Pentagon waste. And while Hart has made a name for himself as a "defense reformer", Mondale was talking about these issues long before the Colorado senator began proselytizing his new ideas. As a senator, Mondale led the fight against MIRVs and the B-1 bomber, and as vice president he lobbied successfully for a presidential veto of congressional authorization of billions of dollars for a nuclear aircraft carrier, an issue Hart claims to have taken the lead...