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Speaking just after preliminary results were announced showing him with a slight lead, Hart said, "Fritz Mondale is not ready to claim the title of front-runner again because he's a very humble man. Instead, I think, Fritz, you'd rather be considered a little-known dark horse struggling to get by on $12 million and the AFL-CIO endorsement...
...took a licking," Glenn conceded, but added, "It's not the end of the world." There was no ignoring the implications of his Iowa debacle. "Glenn is gone," suggested Iowa's Democratic Committee chairman, David Nagle. If Mondale wins decisively in New Hampshire, reckoned South Carolina Senator Fritz Rollings, who finished last in Iowa, "the rest of us are gone...
...confessions in recent political memory: "I do not have the overwhelming desire to be President." Even his Minnesota mentor, Hubert Humphrey, wondered whether Mondale had "fire in the belly." That question, which once seemed an obstacle to Mondale's presidential ambitions, has been laid to rest. These days Fritz's boilers glow red hot as he assails Reagan for replacing the New Deal with "the double deal" and promoting "a jungle where only the richest and fittest prosper...
...Fritz blitz began while the wounds of the 1980 Carter-Mondale loss to Reagan were still smarting. Three months after the election, Mondale formed a political action committee called the Committee for the Future of America, which raised $2.1 million for Democratic congressional candidates running in 1982. Mondale shrewdly achieved two aims: he earned the gratitude of all those candidates and gained invaluable lists of likely donors to Democratic campaigns, most pointedly his own. (Today Mondale refuses PAC money, charging that PACs are used by special interests to buy political influence...
...Mondale planners are eager for a quick knockout. Says Fund Raiser Timothy Finchem: "Our concern is how soon we can put this thing away. It means a helluva lot in defeating Reagan." But not every Democrat is likely to simply bow out and join the Fritz blitz...