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...drive home. Their "votes" consisted of buying $5 margarita cocktails in the name of their favorite candidate. For Colorado Senator Gary Hart, whose Texas backers drank only 39 margaritas in his behalf, it was a setback after he had leaped into contention at a showdown in Senator Alan Cranston's home state of California. In the candidates' division of the Calaveras County Jumping Frog contest, Hart's frog surprised pundits by leaving the rest of the pack in the dust...
...build in advance a large base of national support rather than focus on a few early contests. "With 2,000 delegates to be chosen in three weeks, you've got to get your money and political support in 1983," explains Sergio Bendixen, the manager of Cranston's campaign. Says Hart: "It's a highly specialized effort at this point aimed at active Democrats who are concerned with the political process...
...been the first to run into difficulties. "Mondale is suffering front-runner blight," says Wisconsin Democratic Chairman Matthew Flynn. "There are very high expectations for him, and when he stumbles a bit the criticism seems to echo." After slipping slightly in public opinion surveys and being topped by Cranston in a June straw poll of party activists in Wisconsin, Mondale has attracted withering scrutiny. Is he too beholden to special-interest groups? Can he conquer his image of outdated liberalism? Is he the most electable challenger to Ronald Reagan? Pollster Patrick Caddell, a colleague and occasional antagonist of Mondale...
California Senator Alan Cranston, a contender for next year's Democratic presidential nomination, said he too would resist the offer partly on practical grounds. You're apt to be caught," he said, "aside from it being morally wrong...
Before the vote, Democrats, with partisan zeal, flogged the equity issue. Exclaimed Democrat Alan Cranston of California, who is running for President: "The President says that poor people must sacrifice. But what happens when Democrats say it's time for the rich to sacrifice? The President cries, 'Foul!' " Grumbled House Speaker Tip O'Neill: "It may have been a victory for the President, but it was a defeat for fairness." Senate Republican leaders delayed the vote to enable Reagan, at his televised press conference on Tuesday, to make the G.O.P. pitch. Insisting that the Senate preserve...