Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...least through the next round, Mondale and Hart face continuing competition from one potentially formidable candidate: John Glenn. Last fall's poll favorite to give Mondale a close race, Glenn recovered a bit from his disastrous showing in the Iowa precinct caucuses Feb. 20. He went from fifth place, with less than 4% of the vote, in Iowa to third, with 11.9%, in New Hampshire. The former astronaut and his aides claim some credit for derailing Mondale's bandwagon. Their incessant attacks on the former Vice President as a candidate of special interests and party bosses, they say, finally...
...Glenn nonetheless spiritedly called Mondale's talk of a two-man race between himself and Hart "folly." Said Glenn: "I think he's in for a big surprise across the South. On Super Tuesday there are going to be some messages sent that this thing has opened up and it's sure more than any two-man race." Colonel Floyd Man, Glenn's campaign chairman in Alabama, said of Hart's win in New Hampshire: "Anything that takes votes away from Mondale has got to help us." But Pollster Darden doubted that Glenn could exploit the opportunity. Darden's view...
...would be cut off 30 days later. That date is distant enough to permit Jackson to continue campaigning full-tilt through the important March primaries and caucuses in Southern states where blacks constitute a large proportion of the Democratic turnout. He might win enough delegates to hurt Mondale, Glenn, or both, and possibly even bag the 20% of the vote he would need to get in at least one primary to requalify for federal cash. Nonetheless, the threat of a money cutoff puts his campaign under a cloud...
Indeed, Hart hopes eventually to persuade many delegates to vote for him after they are elected as being pledged to Mondale, Glenn or other candidates. He could do it too. Of the delegates going to San Francisco, 15% will not be pledged to any candidate. Moreover, the party has scrapped the rule that in 1980 legally bound delegates to vote on the first ballot for the candidate to whom they were pledged. Hart can legitimately hope that if he wins enough late contests to be the choice of a clear majority of Democrats by the time the last caucus...
...Lannon was just using the city to climb in his political career," says Glenn S. Koocher '71, the leader of the anti-Lannon contingent. "He catered to certain constituencies, the powerful ones, and left the poorer neighborhoods to take care of themselves," Koocher adds...