Word: cranston
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Democratic presidential strategists say privately that the only way their candidates ever gain attention is to attack what Ronald Reagan says and does. Presidential Candidate Senator Alan Cranston practically points with pride to the fact that he is against virtually every major Reagan policy. Reagan, of course, got into office as a partisan fighter. He has calmed a bit, but the old instincts rise when the bands play and the G.O.P. elephants parade...
...helped by a Jackson candidacy; each additional competitor, they feel, will make winning the nomination all the more difficult. Glenn recently met with Jackson in Washington and told him: "I'm proud enough of my civil rights record that I'm going to contest for every black vote." Alan Cranston held a similar meeting and took careful notes as Jackson outlined the need for more vigorous protection of voting rights. Gary Hart went them both one better over breakfast with Jackson last week at the Jefferson Hotel in Washington: the Colorado Senator agreed to appear with the PUSH leader...
...twelfth annual Operation PUSH (People United to Serve Humanity) convention last week in Atlanta, he turned to acknowledge the organization's national president, the Rev. Jesse Jackson. "President Jackson," he nodded. As laughter rippled through the crowd, Mondale turned to his fellow Democrats on the dais, Senators Alan Cranston and Ernest Rollings, paused and playfully inquired, "President Jackson...
...bouquets. Addressing the 800 delegates to the convention of the bipartisan National Women's Political Caucus, they offered lyrical tributes to the ability of women to influence the election of the next President of the U.S. And with good reason. Each-Walter Mondale, John Glenn, Gary Hart, Alan Cranston and Ernest Hollings-is a Democratic contender for that very office...
...Cranston, at 69 the most ebullient and energetic campaigner in the pack, has been able to make hay with the straw polls. "I love 'em," he gloats. And well he should. His straw-poll upset of Mondale in Wisconsin seemed to bear out his intense organizational effort in the state (one aide spent six weeks in a single congressional district). But thus far Cranston has been unable to attract broad popular support. As he took a Fourth of July ride on a ferry across Puget Sound to Winslow, Wash. (pop. 2,420), and paraded amid bagpipers and bellydancers there...