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...second best. (Gary Hart's is.) In the South, where three key primaries (Alabama, Florida, Georgia) are scheduled for Super Tuesday on March 13, Glenn should be favored by the generally conservative electorate. Yet somehow he has lost a 39% to 33% lead over Mondale. Says Pollster Claibourne Darden: "Not only are the figures reversed from three months ago, they're stretching out in the other direction-in Mondale's favor...
...widow-was not enough to win. Ultralight Democratic Congressman Lawrence McDonald, chairman of the John Birch Society, died on Korean Air Lines Flight 007. His wife Kathy, 34, believed that the Soviets deliberately "assassinated" McDonald, and ran to serve out his fifth term. But moderate Democrat George ("Buddy") Darden trounced her, 59% to 41%. The national New Right tried but then despaired of helping Kathy McDonald. "To be perfectly candid," said Paul Weyrich, director of the right-wing Committee for the Survival of a Free Congress, "they ran one of the worst campaigns I have ever witnessed. If I were...
Paradoxically, the candidate other than Glenn who worries the Mondale forces most is the one who is not yet formally in the race: Jesse Jackson, 42. The new Yankelovich survey put Jackson in fourth place with 5% of the vote. An August sounding by Atlanta's Darden Research Corp. showed 7.4% of the Democratic and independent respondents in nine Southern states choosing Jackson; nearly three-fifths of them would vote for Mondale if Jackson does not run. Glenn might win several of those states anyway, but to Pollster Claibourne Darden the meaning of his figures is clear: "If Jackson...
Political pundits and fellow Democrats hardly concurred. "I might as well run my bloodhound, Blue," declared Atlanta Pollster Claibourne Darden. "The possibility of his being elected President is zero." Only slightly more enthusiastic was Colorado Senator Gary Hart, McGovern's 1972 campaign manager and one of his six declared presidential opponents. "He has as much right as anyone else to get into the race," said Hart...
...Jackson campaign would initially concentrate on nine Southern states with a high proportion of black voters. A July survey of those states by Atlanta Pollster Claibourne Darden indicated that Jackson had the support of 42% of black Democrats and independents, and less than 1% support among whites. Because the party's rules generally require a candidate to win 20% of the vote in a district in order to collect any delegates, analysts say that unless Jackson picks up significant white support he will probably win no more than 250 out of the 3,931 total. That would afford him very...