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...They're organized," admits Hart's Southwestern coordinator, John Pouland. "And they'll have the opportunity to be disproportionately represented in the caucuses." Complains Hart: "The caucuses are stacked against us." In 1981 and 1982, before Hart even announced, Mondale had visited Texas 14 times, methodically lining up the endorsements of almost every important party leader...
Among more affluent voters, issues that cut against Hart in the East should help him in Texas, particularly his vote against the windfall-profits tax on domestic oil and his proposal of a $10-per-bbl. fee on imported oil. Furthermore, Hart has inherited many of John Glenn's deep-pocketed donors. Oil Baron James Calaway, who helped raise $1 million for Glenn, raised $125,000 for Hart in a single evening this month. In the Texas caucuses, however, organization and party loyalty count for more than money. Hart's Yumpies (young upwardly mobile professionals) are likely...
...Hart is aiming for "young Democratic activists," says Coordinator Pouland. Working with Dallas Congressman Martin Frost, Hart's state chairman, Pouland has helped place operatives in the half of the state's 6,600 precincts that contains 90% of the vote. They are concentrating especially on sprawling West Texas, where, says Pouland, "anti-Mondale feeling is pretty strong." Hart wants to revive his New Hampshire touch by warming up to voters through small, personal meetings, a difficult task for a shy, cool man, and by stressing his independence from special interests. At a barbecue last week in Amarillo...
That kind of courage can raise a few hackles, as Hart discovered earlier in the week, outside St. Louis. At a meeting with union leaders from a McDonnell Douglas Corp. plant, he discussed his opposition to building more F-15 and F/A-18 fighters, arguing that the planes are too expensive and not maneuverable enough. But they provide nearly 14,000 jobs to the workers of McDonnell Douglas, a fact that the labor leaders there vigorously pointed out to him. Last week Mondale beat Hart by an overwhelming 60% to 20% in the Missouri caucuses. As he did in New York...
Despite his long string of defeats (broken only by a narrow, 45% to 40%, victory in Arizona last week), Hart continues to argue that he is more electable against Ronald Reagan in November. A mid-March Gallup poll backed up his claim, showing that Hart would beat Reagan, 49% to 47%, while Mondale would lose, 52% to 44%. But last week a new Gallup poll showed Hart's edge diminishing: Mondale continued to trail by the same distance (52 to 44), but Hart was now also behind Reagan...