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...Hart's single most successful tack during the primaries was charging Mondale with lapdog allegiance to the AFL-CIO. The extreme affinity between organized labor and the Democrats has become a central political concern. Democratic leaders must convince organized labor that the shifts in the U.S. economy-away from heavy manufacturing toward high-technology and service industries-need not be antithetical to workers' long-run interests. "Labor has a massive job of self-education to do," says Iowa Party Chairman David Nagle. "Labor will have to weed its own garden...
...opportunity and economic growth. Two Democrats at the forefront of such a strategy are New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley and Missouri Representative Richard Gephardt. They have proposed a simplified income tax plan that would eliminate all but a few personal deductions and lower significantly the rates for most taxpayers. Hart has talked about establishing individual training accounts for workers who are forced into new jobs...
...thinks the former forward for the New York Knicks is unready to run. "There's not a natural move in his body, whether it's basketball or politics," says the adviser. "He works like hell, but he needs more time." Although some Democrats are still leery of Hart's personal quirkiness, he was more relaxed and rousing as a campaigner for Mondale this fall than he was last spring on the stump against him. Hart will soon file for re-election to the Senate from Colorado. But he has told friends he is inclined against running...
Mondale had been endorsed by every major union except the Teamsters, who opted for Reagan. After stumbling badly in the early primaries, Mondale relied on union money and muscle to grind down Gary Hart in New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Michigan. "Without labor, we would not have been the nominee," admits one Mondale strategist...
...them. On the Democratic side, they first found Gary Hart, who drew almost as many popular votes as the ultimate nominee, Walter Mondale. Hart roweled Mondale from end to end of the country, leaving the Democratic candidate wounded and bleeding. On the Republican side, surfacing later, were half a dozen baby boomers who wrote the Republican platform to their wishes and who regarded Reagan, as one of them said, "more as a totem than a leader. We're trying to elect a man ten years past his prime...