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...thing: dissatisfaction with the field is rampant among Democratic voters. Perhaps because all the other Democratic candidates have been diminished by endless TV debates and their uninspired campaigning, they seem to have surprisingly high unfavorable ratings. Dukakis and Paul Simon are the only two with relatively low negatives; Richard Gephardt, Albert Gore and Bruce Babbitt now have unfavorable ratings that are higher than their favorable ones, a marked shift from previous polls. The survey showed that 41% wanted Mario Cuomo to get in the race and 31% wanted Bill Bradley...
Hart's return hurts all the charter members of the old Democratic six-pack in differing ways. The second-tier candidates (Gephardt, Gore and Babbitt) can ill afford to be overshadowed in the crucial weeks before Iowa and New Hampshire. Gore is particularly vulnerable since, having all but abandoned Iowa, he needs a respectable showing in New Hampshire to position himself for the Super Tuesday Southern primaries. Compared with Hart, the bow-tied Simon looks like the model of a conventional politician. "Hart will take away the fascination with Simon as the new and different candidate," predicts Democratic Media Consultant...
DEMOCRATIC rivals are right to denounce Simon's "solution" as "neo-voodoo" economics. Congressman Richard Gephardt, a supporter of the disastrous 1981 Reagan tax cut, had what for him was an unusual moment of insight during Tuesday's debate when he called Simon's ideas, "Reaganomics with...
Simon, a first term senator and four-time U.S. congressman, has been criticized by his Democratic rivals for the impracticality of his domestic spending programs and for his reluctance to specify how he would accomplish those plans. In a debate among all the presidential candidates last week, Rep. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) called Simon's economic platform "Reaganomics with...
UPSTARTS SIMON and DuPont didn't fare much better. Simon looked and sounded sickly and got skewered all night for his promise-them-everything-including-a-balanced-budge t program. Reaganomics with a bow-tie, Gephardt said. And DuPont, fresh from an endorsement by the wacky but influential Manchester Union-Leader, is the only guy more annoying to listen to than Bruce Babbitt. When he speaks, the preppified former Delaware governor and Napalm-heir sounds like a Kennedy gargling mouthwash...