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...hardly apparent from the results of "Super Tuesday II." Mondale did win solidly in North Carolina (36% to Gary Hart's 30% and Jesse Jackson's 25%) and Maryland (43% to Jackson's 27% and Hart's 25%). But Hart came back from the brink to upset Mondale twice, in the key Midwestern states of Ohio (42% to 40%) and Indiana (42% to 41%). "Welcome to the fourth quarter," Hart told a jubilant throng of his supporters at Washington's National Press Club. "The message is clear. The Democrats and the people of this country...
...Hart's analysis was closer to the mark than Mondale's. Still, the results were less a victory for the challenger than a defeat for the front runner. The former Vice President remains the odds-on favorite to win the nomination. But party chiefs fear that by the time he raises his arms in victory at the convention in San Francisco, he will have taken so many blows from his opponents he will be punch-drunk. Says Iowa Democratic Committee Chairman David Nagle: "If Hart sweeps the rest, Mondale's going to be a badly wounded duck...
...soon as Mondale eased off, Hart began to strike back. "This Hart is like a snake you beat into the ground. You think he's dead, then bam! He's back to life again," said Nagle. Ohio and Indiana, where unemployment rates are around 10% and organized labor is strong, seemed like safe territory for Mondale; he wears the union label proudly and had won every previous primary state in which unemployment exceeded 10%. But Hart was finally able to reach into the blue-collar vote with clever ads that showed the Colorado Senator standing in working clothes...
Mondale's aides acknowledged their candidate's benign neglect of Ohio and Indiana. But they pointed to Mondale's win in North Carolina, where Hart made the mistake of vaguely threatening to cut off federal price supports for tobacco. In Maryland, where Hart campaigned for barely half an hour, Mondale carried even the suburbs, home of Hart's usually loyal cadre of young, upwardly mobile professionals, the Yumpies. Indeed, when the counting was over in last week's primaries, Mondale had actually won 42 more delegates than Hart, 184 to 142. (Hart overwhelmingly...
...these delegates. In five of the remaining contests, Mondale is the underdog. He has virtually given up on Oregon (43 delegates, May 15), where the Yumpie vote is strong, and faces an uphill struggle in Nebraska (24 delegates, May 15), where popular Governor Bob Kerrey is stumping for Hart. (Last week Kerrey's sometime girlfriend, Actress Debra Winger, campaigned with Hart in Ohio.) Hart also has a slight edge in Idaho (18 delegates, May 24) and South Dakota (15 delegates, June...