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Poor Showing. When contests are so tight, of course, any number of factors can be said to have tipped the balance in favor of the winner-the good weather that brought out large numbers of Democrats, the latest discouraging economic indicators, reservations about Vice Presidential Candidate Robert Dole, the allegations raised against Gerald Ford and dismissed late in the campaign. In 23 states, including all the big ten except Florida and Massachusetts, the winner captured 52% of the vote or less. Redistribution of a mere 8,000 votes would have swung the election to Ford; a juggling of some...
...made about the whole campaign was picking Fritz Mondale as his running mate," said Democratic National Chairman Robert Strauss. Carter Adviser Hamilton Jordan told TIME Correspondent John Stacks that Mondale had indeed proved valuable, particularly after his strong showing in the precedent-setting vice-presidential debate with Republican Robert Dole. Said Jordan of the debate: "It gave us two or three extra points, a huge impact. A number of people saw Ford and Carter and thought 'What the hell!' But then we raised the vice-presidential issue, and it was decisive with a large number of people...
...predecessors. Only two years ago he abandoned his own presidential ambitions because, he joked, in straw votes he was running behind even "don't know." Now he has a national constituency. He was unfamiliar to most voters before the Democratic Convention. But in the debate with Dole, Mondale came across as "presidential" in bearing -if a bit wooden...
...choice will probably not be Robert Dole, though he insists, "I don't intend to fade away." The defeated vice-presidential candidate will go back to the Senate, where his term expires in 1980. Having presented a bad-mouth image and fared poorly in the polls during the campaign, he may well receive blame for the party's defeat and stands little chance of being nominated again for the G.O.P. ticket...
...prime issue on which to judge him. "He almost had me in tears," said William McLaughlin, state Republican chairman. "If he keeps going he'll have everybody believing it was Esch on the tapes." Riegle also produced a TV spot similar to one used by Bob Dole in his 1974 Senate race: a billboard is shown, with mud being thrown at it, then falling off as a voice extols the candidate's virtues...