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...bucked the austere, antigovernment spirit of the times. At several junctures he was down and almost out; each time he bounced back and recaptured the lead. If he scores his expected nomination victory, he will start the November race a heavy underdog. But he will start it as Fighting Fritz, a man who has shown he can win over a long and demanding course...
...would lose. But they claim to relish the role of underdog. This may be because every time Mondale was pronounced the front runner during the Democratic primaries, he promptly lost an election. With a lead, he was a lifeless and complacent campaigner. When behind, he was "Fightin' Fritz...
...great English writer John Galsworthy had it right: "By the cigars they smoke ... ye shall know the texture of men's souls." But Mondale will not allow the camera when he lights up or even just chews a bit on a fragrant Montecruz No. 55. "It makes Fritz look like a politician," declared Joan Mondale a few years back. Heaven's sakes, Joan, what...
Until Mondale lost the Ohio and Indiana primaries to Hart a few weeks ago, it was assumed that he would choose a safe, "geographical" running mate?perhaps Lloyd Bentsen, to help him carry Texas, or Fritz Rollings, to give him some appeal in the South. But there is a certain bloodlessness in Mondale's campaign that leaves Democrats with a sinking anticipation of defeat in November. Some now believe that Mondale might put spirit and excitement into his race by bringing a woman onto the ticket. At least the right woman might bring a feeling of something fresh...
Griffiths was elected Lieutenant Governor of Michigan in 1982. South Carolina Senator Ernest ("Fritz") Rollings, campaigning last fall for the Democratic nomination, often mentioned her as a potential running mate. The sprightly septuagenarian beams at the prospect of being on the ticket, and swats off suggestions that her age might be a handicap. "You could say the same thing about Ronald Reagan in 1980," she says. There are more serious minuses: as a Midwesterner, she would offer no geographic diversity to Minnesotan Walter Mondale; she has also criticized Gary Hart on the Chrysler bailout. But if she were tapped, says...