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Bradley combines star quality from his basketball career with a reputation as a sober policy maven able to score points on complex issues like tax reform and international debt. Like Hart, he could occupy the "big think" niche while appealing to baby boomers. Cuomo, the old baseball player, hits oratorical home runs as he mixes traditional Democratic themes with odes to pragmatic governance. He has a following among Democratic ethnics in the North. Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is an acknowledged master of national security policy. His conservatism could win him bales of white votes...
...Iowa more vigorously than a platoon of farmers and managed to identify himself with an issue -- protectionist measures to cut the trade deficit -- that appeals to labor activists. Even those who disagree with Gephardt's approach concede that he has exploited it shrewdly. Given the fractured nature of the Hart-less field, the support of labor could boost Gephardt to top-tier status, though it may hamper the recent headway he has been making in the South...
Biden, though slow to rev his engines, rivals Hart in playing generational politics among baby boomers. He competes with Cuomo in the passionate-oratory department. Biden's field organization is still fledgling, but his ability to raise funds awes the competition. Dukakis, with his reputation as a successful Governor and his popularity in New Hampshire, comes across as a take-charge sort with potential. One Hart strategist argues that Dukakis, once he is better known, will attract many of Hart's former supporters...
...ready, at least in terms of well-honed views and organization, is Babbitt. Like Hart, Babbitt has a position -- and a policy paper to prove it -- on everything. Desperate to score in Iowa, Babbitt in late April became the first to run television ads there. Because he is still a stranger in Washington, Babbitt has fared poorly in the underground primary...
...Strategies of Zeus, by Gary Hart...