Word: glenns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Glenn did not attend last night's function
With 368 of 412 town and city caucuses reporting, Hart held a 50.0 to 43.7 percent lead over Mondale, with George S. McGovern, the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, and Sen. John H. Glenn (D-Ohio) winning 1 percent or less...
Neither McGovern, Jackson, nor Glenn actively competed for votes...
After Iowa, Mondale is slugging, Glenn is sagging, and Hart is hanging in First Des Moines and Cedar Rapids in Iowa, then Manchester and Concord in New Hampshire: plain-folks places nearly as thick with TV equipment and visiting reporters as Sarajevo had been the week before. But unlike the Olympics, which had enough surprises to keep things interesting, the quadrennial race for the Democratic presidential nomination was beginning to look like a predictable rout. "We got the gold and silver medals," declared Walter Mondale's polltaker, Peter Hart, after the Iowa caucuses. "Everybody else fought over the bronze...
...shopping mall in West Lebanon and a toxic-waste dump in Londonderry (the crowd at the dump: half a dozen area residents, two police officers and 70 journalists), Hart encouraged the impression that he is in a two-man race for the nomination. Ohio Senator John Glenn, of course, believed and said the same thing for almost a year then, in Iowa, where he counted on finishing second, he staggered in fifth with less than 4% of the vote, well behind former Senator George McGovern (10%) and California Senator Alan Cranston (7%). He did little better than former Florida Governor...