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...last week's Maine straw poll. Such polls select no convention delegates and are not even a guide to voter sentiment, since they are often taken at meetings of the party faithful; the one in thinly populated Maine should have been especially meaningless. But after California Senator Alan Cranston packed a June Wisconsin caucus and won a straw poll there, Mondale vowed to tolerate |no more such upsets; his troops hit Maine like Eisenhower's armies assaulting the Normandy beaches. Fifteen paid Mondale workers and 35 full-time volunteers canvassed the state's two congressional districts...
...Mondale and 26% chose Glenn, essentially the same support that each enjoyed when the summer began. The rest of the pack includes former Senator George McGovern, the 1972 nominee, with 8%; Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson, still mulling over whether to announce his candidacy, with 5%; California Senator Alan Cranston with 4%; Colorado Senator Gary Hart with 2%; former Florida Governor Reubin Askew with 2%; and South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings with 1%. With almost ten months to go before the convention in San Francisco, 23% say they do not yet have a preference...
...announced no plans to field or support a female candidate for the Presidency: they realize that a woman would only be as politically feasible in 1984 as the Rev. Jesse Jackson will probably be: negligibly. In the same way, they cannot realistically expect Mondale, or Glenn, or Cranston, or Hollings, or McGovern, or even the very enthusiastic Gary Hart to enter the New Hampshire primary on the same ticket with a woman...
...Depression to make loans to industries. Politicians have many things in mind when they advocate industrial policy. Former Vice President Walter Mondale talks vaguely of cooperation among Government, business and labor to "restructure whole industries." Senator Gary Hart favors tax credits to help companies retrain workers, while Senator Alan Cranston supports a Government development bank that would give loans to basic industries like steel. The common theme of all the industrial-policy advocates is that the Government must play a more active role in helping industries meet the challenge of foreign competition...
...only goal here is to show I am competitive," Cranston said in an interview here yesterday. "Our object is to finish close to the frontrunners [Mondale and Glenn]. And it is interesting to note that the frontrunner in the polls hasn't won since...