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South Carolina's aggressive, articulate "new" Southerner, Ernest ("Fritz") Hollings, 54, is thought to trail with 15 or so votes. Currently bringing up the rear with perhaps a dozen votes is Hubert Humphrey, 65, who used to preside over the Senate as Vice President. All three would be Carter loyalists, though Byrd and Hollings would probably be less assertive in dealing with the White House than Humphrey. Partly because of concern about his health, partly because his opponents have worked hard to store up lOUs for this vote, Humphrey, still recovering from a recent cancer operation, is given relatively...
...slow boil. These games are always exciting and bring out the manic fool in you. You spend two hours yelling absurd things like "DECK HIM! DECK HIM!," and the game's inevitable last-second finish leaves you shaking and babbling all night like a refrigerator on the fritz. That night nothing except counting audibles will put you to sleep...
...Democratic power brokers like Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, AFL-CIO President George Meany, and others who had seen Carter as an upstart and an outsider, rushed to back him. Last aboard the bandwagon were the liberals. Carter won them over by choosing Minnesota's Senator Walter (Fritz) Mondale as his running mate and by delivering an acceptance speech that amounted to a populist vision of social reform. After the convention, with some polls giving him a lopsided 62%-to-29% lead over Ford, Carter seemed supremely confident of victory. During those precious summer days at home...
After the results were in, some political analysts went so far as to speculate that Fritz Mondale had been the difference between victory and defeat for the Carter ticket. "The best decision that Jimmy 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...
...Robert Byrd, 58, and he is also likely to push harder for social legislation that Ford would oppose. Then, too, if Carter is defeated, the Democrats' party leadership will be up for grabs. Potential Democratic candidates for the presidency in 1980-men like Senators Edward Kennedy and Fritz Mondale and Congressman Mo Udall-can be expected to sponsor bills to catch the fancy of the American voter. Ford probably would fight many of them, and Tip O'Neill, for one, doubts that the Democrats -despite their strength-would have the votes to override presidential vetoes. Says...