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Waiting out election results in home state, Mondale heard nothing shake his buoyant mood. His foe Gary Hart was carrying South and New Mexico, as expected, but delegates were at stake. Mondale sweeping West Virginia. The news New Jersey was dazzling. A hefty 107 delegates were the prize, and Mondale, capitalizing on the state's district election system, seemed to be taking an amazing of them to Hart's none and Jesse Jackson's four. The voting booths had closed in California, with its enticing of 306 delegates, but early exit polls indicated a tight race. Arriving at a party...
...Mondale's aides, the euphoria gave way almost immediately to a bout of Hart-induced nightmares. Back in February, the Colorado Senator's stunning upset in the New Hampshire primary (he had risen from a mere 3% following among Democrats nationally just a month earlier) shattered the notion that an invincible Mondale machine would crush all opposition early. After a string of Hart wins in New England, Mondale had doggedly fought his way back with victories in Alabama and Georgia on Super Tuesday I. Then he seized Illinois, New York and Pennsylvania, setting up another knockout chance on Super Tuesday...
...Mondale Campaign Coordinator Tom Donilon was awakened by one of the staffs delegate counters. The news from California was dismaying. Hart was headed for a remarkable victory in the state. In the end Hart won 32 of California's 45 congressional districts, Mondale only nine, Jackson four. That translated into a nearly 3-to-l Hart victory over Mondale in delegates: 205 to 72 (Jackson got 29). Donilon relayed the discouraging report to Campaign Chairman James Johnson and Adviser John Reilly. The acute problem was to avoid the debacle of Mondale having to confess...
That, by the reckoning of Mondale's aides, put their boss over the top. He had gone into the final day of primaries just 225 short of a convention delegate majority. He had picked up a respectable 201 delegates on the with sey's wipeout of Hart partly offsetting the California defeat. The time difference from the Pacific Coast had blunted the impact of California. Most TV viewers had gone to bed, like Mondale, with the expectation that the nomination fight was over. In much of the U.S., the next day's morning newspapers conveyed the same impression. Mondale...
...declared, "Today, I am pleased to claim victory I am the nominee. I've got the votes." He cited a precise number of delegates behind him: 2,008. Mondale pledged to work for "a unified convention," saying that he would make personal appeals to both Hart and Jackson to join him in that effort. He conceded under questioning that the friction among the candidates had been great, but he tried to down-play it. "Our Democratic Party is a family," he said, "and as families sometimes do, we squabble. But our bonds are stronger than our battles...