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...nuclear issue: The danger here again is that Democratic rhetoric could permit Reagan to preempt the center. If the Democratic nominee makes a nuclear freeze the centerpiece of his candidacy--as Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) has begun to do and as much of the Democratic left is likely to press for--he risks having his chief issue defused by a Reagan initiative. The 1972 analogy is enlightening: George McGovern, the Democrats' "peace" candidate, found his thunder stolen by Richard Nixon's late-October announcement that "Peace is at hand...
...issue: Reagan would be 77 at the end of a second term, a fact of which Democratic partisans--particularly those who do not back the 69-year-old Cranston--have increasingly taken note. But Democrats should think twice about going after Reagan on the age issue, as justified a concern...
...start until the afternoon of Saturday, April 9, but the six campaigns set up shop in Springfield the night before to start wooing the delegates. Five candidates devoted their evenings to wining and dining for support; the more elaborate were Reubin Askew's Florida barbecue, California Sen. Alan Cranston's open-bar bash, and Ohio Sen. John Glenn's late-night Buckeye Blast. The sixth presidential aspirant, Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado, conducted an Issues Workshop. In a cramped, stuffy room of the Stonehaven Inn, Hart and two MIT professors discussed President Reagan's recent arms control proposals for about...
...vote. The jubilant chants of the organized labor delegates from the convention floor could be heard, as that bloc celebrated its victory in getting one-fourth of the delegates to vote for "jobs" instead of a candidate. In the middle of the rotunda, about 20 supporters of Sen. Alan Cranston (D-Calif.) hugged and kissed each other as their candidate showed surprising strength, finishing third...
...Mass.), been pushing a "pay equality" proposal to establish comparable pay for comparable work. He gets high ratings from consumer and conservation lobby groups. Hart's "party unity" rating in 1981 was one of the highest among Senate Democrats, and exceeded that of other President aspirants Sen. Allen Cranston (D-Calif.), Sen. John Glenn (D-Ohio), Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.), and Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-Ark.). Indeed, Hart is the only one in this group who opposed both draft registration and the B-I bomber under the Carter Administration, and who voted consistently against the Reagan...